Explore the Possibilities...
Take your students on a Great State Park Field Trip!
Discover Michigan's Natural Resources! The Saginaw Bay Visitor Center offers a wide variety of educational, hands-on experiences for students K-12. Click on the Program Topics and choose which program you would like to bring your students to.
Traveling Naturalist: We also offer a "traveling naturalist" option - where we come to you, either at your school or another location off-site. This can come in handy, especially in the winter season!
To help in program selection, here is a list of suggested labs and class segments
- Lessons learned from the bald eagle Pre-Visit (email Jonathan Massung directly for scheduling)
To help in program selection, here is a list of suggested labs and class segments:(Let us know your learning goals and when can build a custom program to suit your needs.)
Ecology hikes30 min, 60 min, 90 min or 120 min. (90- and 120-min. hikes include in-field investigations along the trail)
- Tobico Marsh (requires buses to drop off at trailhead)
- Lagoon Loop
- Shoreline
Field labs30 - 60 min
Natural Science
- Live creature collection and ID
- Beaver dam and ground water lab
- Leaf ID challenge
- Carrying capacity model
- Tree needs model
- Tree aging estimation lab
- Invasive species model
- Microscopes field investigation
- Simple bird feeders
- Habitat houses: bird or bats
- Fishing at the docks
- Archery (grades 5+)
- 3D field archery (grades 5+/ advanced skills)
- Survival shelters / hatchet program
- Mammal of Michigan
- Vertebrates of Michigan
- Birds of Michigan
- Fish of the Great Lakes
- Raptor classification lab
- Owl pellet lab
- Fur lab
- Skulls lab
- Microscope lab
- Live animals of Tobico Marsh
- Invasive species lamprey lab
- Watershed model
- Aquaponics & the cattail marsh lab
- Lessons learned from the bald eagle (75 minutes)
- Invasive species lab
- Live animals of the marsh
- Mammal fur lab
- Mammal skull ID lab
- Owl pellets lab
- Carrying capacity model /game
- Watershed model
