DATE: February 15, 2008   CONTACT:  Jeff Muller, 410-484-2413 ext. 23

MEDIA ADVISORY

IRVINE NATURE CENTER WELCOMES

BALTIMORE AREA SCHOOLS FOR MAPLE SUGARING

WHO:  Baltimore City and County students and Irvine teacher-naturalists

WHAT: Irvine teacher-naturalists lead elementary, middle and high school students

      (pre-K-12th) through lessons on maple sugaring. GREAT PHOTO OPP!

WHERE: Irvine Nature Center

            (on the campus of St. Timothy’s School)

            8400 Greenspring Avenue

            Stevenson, MD  21153

WHEN: Day, Date Time  School (grade)

            Weds., 2/20 10 am  Park School (K)

            Weds., 2/20 1 pm  Dulaney Day School (4 yrs old)

            Thurs., 2/21 10 am  Park School (3^rd)

            Thurs., 2/21 12 pm  Pilgrim Christian Day School (pre-K – 5^th)

            Fri., 2/22 10 am  Medfield Heights Elementary (K)

            Tues., 2/26 10:30 am Harford Day School (2^nd)

            Weds., 2/27 10 am  Redeemer Classical Christian School (K)

            Weds., 2/27 1 pm  FISH Homeschool (K – 9^th)

BACKGROUND:

Sugar making has been an early spring activity for centuries. This program focuses on teaching students how to recognize maple trees, how sap moves within trees and how sap is collected and made into syrup and candy. Students help collect sap and learn how sap is boiled down to a consumable form in an evaporator.