The On-Water Group Programs are an expansion of Rocking the Boat's On-Water Program, the initiative that provides hands-on environmental education programming to public school students. The four different programs dramatically increase the number and type of people who are able to benefit from Rocking the Boat's resources. They all provide the opportunity for participants to learn basic on-water safety, row in handmade, traditional rowboats, and have fun! Particular effort is put into creating unique learning experiences and customizing content to suit each group's focus and meet their specific goals. |
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| Middle and high school students experience first-hand their most important local natural resource, the Bronx River, and put traditional classroom learning into direct practice in the field as participants in the On-Water Classroom Program. Rocking the Boat staff collaborates with teachers to design multiple sessions of customized education programs, appropriate for the sciences, math, history, social studies and art. Aboard Rocking the Boat's fleet of hand-built wooden boats, 4th through 12th graders benefit from the chance to learn about their own community, their own river, and their own possibilities for the future. | Teachers interested in a unique professional development opportunity are invited to work as a group with Rocking the Boat. Programs can be customized to focus on specific academic subjects or themes such as biology or Bronx River wading birds. As an experienced youth development practitioner, Rocking the Boat can help educators explore ways of integrating hands-on techniques with traditional classroom learning. The program can also help groups of teachers work better together and grow more cohesive as a team. |
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| Co-workers and community groups participating in the teambuilding program will cooperate better and discover their strengths as a team while pulling together to achieve a distinct goal. Rocking the Boat offers professionally staffed and customized sessions on the Bronx River aboard our fleet of hand-built wooden boats. | In collaboration with some of New York City's most prominent environmental and historical institutions, Rocking the Boat offers on-water tours of the Bronx River Estuary, a valuable and often overlooked natural resource. Two-hour tours will bring rowers from Hunts Point Riverside Park north to Concrete Plant Park and south to the mouth of the River. Tour dates and registration information will be posted on the Rocking the Boat home page as events are scheduled. |
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 "Rocking the Boat was an ideal activity for our faculty and staff. We got to see and experience each other in new, and sometimes eye-opening, ways, and the work and play that we shared on a glorious late summer afternoon brought us together more strongly than ever. When we gathered in a circle for a second time, after coming back from taking the boats out on the water, we could feel that we were a more cohesive group than we had been when we first arrived. Very powerful!" - Dr. Steven Lorch, Head of School, Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan. "Simply put, amazing. I can't begin to tell you what a wonderful job you and your crew did. The program was great and the experiences and life skills that my children have developed are all because of Rocking the Boat. I look forward to future endeavors and can't wait to get back on the water with my students and your team. Thank you." - Edwin M. Alexander, Science Teacher, CUNY Prep High School  |
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School and Non-Profit Rates: $350 for up to 25 people for 2 hours $500 for up to 25 people for 3 hours |
For-Profit Business Rates: $700 for up to 25 people for 2 hours $1,000 for up to 25 people for 3 hours |
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Full day and larger group programs are also available. work: 718.466.5799 cell: 845.531.9745 email: chrissy@rockingtheboat.org |
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