Educational Program Departments Overview
S cience
Programs in a variety of age appropriate labs or at-sea excursions aboard the Research Vessel Sea Explorer. Teaching stations vary depending on program and grade level. Programs feature state-of-the-art scientific oceanographic research equipment and topics include marine life, life cycles, and fish dissections. Program length varies from one hour to multi-day trips with a night on our sleep deck or at Catalina Island.
 Maritime / History
Innovative dockside and at-sea programs aboard the Pilgrim and Spirit of Dana Point. Living history programs that allow students to become sailors in Post Revolutionary War America, hide gatherers of R.H. Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, and Argonauts traveling to the California Gold Rush to make their fortunes. At-sea programs include Catalina sailing adventures and hands-on day-sails aboard the Spirit of Dana Point.
 Outdoor Education
Programs utilize the Lazy W Ranch, located in the Cleveland National Forest just east of San Juan Capistrano, as an ideal setting to immerse students in the exploration of both California's history and natural environment. Students can build Native American shelters, make tortillas, and pan for gold in a mountain stream, or hike through the chaparral, perform research with scientific equipment, and observe wildlife during the day or while spending the night in one of our rustic cabins.
 Distance Learning
Outreach programs that allow the Ocean Institute to come to you! Services include a mobile laboratory for Visiting Classroom programs and Videoconferencing programs which enable the Ocean Institute to reach students nationwide.
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