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3 people are interested
Volunteer Field Trip Educators
ORGANIZATION: Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
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3 people are interested
The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is seeking volunteer docents for its annual Tales of the Towpath student field trips at the Freemansburg Canal Education Center in Freemansburg, Northampton County. Field trips take place on weekdays from September 19 through October 14. Volunteers are not required to work the full four weeks. Docents provide hands-on lessons to fourth-grade students from the Bethlehem Area School District who are learning about life along the Lehigh Canal through the D&L's Tales of the Towpath classroom curriculum. Volunteers receive complete training and are provided with resource materials and 19th-century costumes. Lessons focus on the everyday life of a canal locktender's family. For more information, contact D&l Director of Education,Dennis Scholl, at 610-923-3548 x225 or dennis@delawareandlehigh.org.
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About Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
Location:
2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd., Easton, PA 18042, US
Mission Statement
The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that preserves historic pathways that carried coal and iron from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia. Today, the D&L Trail connects people to nature, culture, communities, recreation and our industrial heritage.
Description
The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that preserves historic pathways that carried coal and iron from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia. Today, the D&L Trail and the National Canal Museum connect people to nature, culture, communities, recreation and our industrial heritage.
The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L) is working to connect th 165-mile D&L Trail through 5 Pennsylvania counties, (Carbon, Luzerne, Northampton, Lehigh and Bucks) by 2020. The D&L also manages the National Canal Museum in Easton, home of PA's only mule-drawn canal boat ride.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Freemansburg Canal Education Center655 Main StreetFreemansburg, PA 18017
DATE POSTED
July 20, 2016
SKILLS
- History
- STEM
- Teaching / Instruction
- General Education
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Entirely up to you