G.+New+London+County

** ﻿ Locations with * denote field trips the school went on last year. **   **United States Coast Guard Academy** (15 Mohegan Avenue New London) Classes may tour the grounds, visitor’s center (closed Nov-April), museum, chapel, some of the buildings and the tall ship //Eagle// when it is in port. The ship is used as a seagoing training classroom for the cadets. []

**Submarine Force Library and Museum** (Exit 86 off Route 95) This steel-and-glass structure offers hands-on exhibits tracing the history of the submarine from Bushnell’s //Turtle// to the sleek, high tech models used today. Located on the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut, maintains the world's finest collection of submarine artifacts. It is the only submarine museum operated by the United States Navy. Tour the Nautilus, the first atomic submarine. 800-343-0079. [|www.usnautilus.org]

**Project Oceanology** (UCONN's Avery Point Campus 1084 Shennecossett Road Groton) Project Oceanology offers school programs for grades 5 and up. It is a "full-fledged marine science and environmental education program" that offers various science-based programs and interdisciplinary studies such as the Battle of Groton Heights (1781 led by Benedict Arnold), Lighthouses and Coastal Defenses in Long Island Sound, and sewage pollution in the Thames River estuary. The project also offers grants for professional development for teachers in the summer. There also are several types of boat tours off the Groton-New London area, including a 2 ½ hour educational cruise on the Enviro-Lab where students firsthand can learn about marine life. The site includes a 22,000 square foot building and a variety of oceanographic equipment and vessels. [|www.oceanology.org]

**Mystic Seaport** (75 Greenmanville Avenue Mystic) A 19th century New England seaport that includes a chapel, church, school house, pharmacy, bank and other buildings with indoor exhibits of figureheads, marine paintings and ship’s models. The seaport has a preservation shipyard where students can watch craftsmen at work and see a vast collection of boats, including the //Charles W. Morgan// (1841). Take a tour inside and see the cramped quarters and watch staff members set sails and climb the rigging. [|www.mysticseaport.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">***Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center** (Mashantucket) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A more elaborate full-size reproduction of a 16th-century village, this center has lifelike human figures and sound stations that describe what life in the community must have been like. Other exhibits at this nearly $200 million tribal museum include simulations of an Ice Age glacier cave and caribou hunt crevasse. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.pequotmuseum.org]