WELECOME TO THE DIGITAL SEASIDE CENTER
The Seaside Center is a beachside marine education center located in Greenwich Point Park, Old Greenwich, about 6 1/2 miles from the Bruce Museum. The Seaside Center aims to educate visitors about the ecology of Long Island Sound and environmental issues.
Check here to learn the latest information about our in-person 2021 schedule. If you want to take the Seaside Center fun home with you, watch this space for our latest digital offerings, including:
Blog articles
Videos featuring your favorite Seaside Center places and creatures
Activities you can do at the beach or at home
And more!
Where else you can find us online:
Seaside Saturday activities for families at the beach or at home:
Week 1: Let’s Identify Seaweeds! Learn about seaweeds and how to identify common Connecticut Species.
Week 2: Making Art with Seaweeds! Now that you’ve identified your seaweeds, learn about art projects you can do with your specimens.
Week 3: Let’s Look at Sand! Learn about how the sand beneath your feet can tell you about the natural history of the coastline.
Week 4: Looking Closely with Magnifiers: Using the directions in this lesson plan you will learn how to make two different easy-to-use magnifiers and get some suggestions on how to use them.
Week 5: Let’s Look at Pollinators! When we stand in a garden bed or beside a patch of flowers, what pollinators should we look for? What behaviors or patterns will we notice?
Week 6: Pollinator Puppets: If you’re interested in getting to know pollinators more closely, this craft could help!
Week 7: Let’s Look at Shorebirds! It’s shorebird migration season. Here are some tools to identify what you might see on the beach your backyard.
Week 8: Bills, Bills, Bills! This week, you and your learners will spend some time observing birds and their feeding behaviors and experiment with different kitchen and household tools that replicate beak shapes and functions.
Our latest articles:
Local Wildlife Weekly #8: Eastern Cicada Killer
Is that a murder hornet in your back yard? If you see an alarmingly large wasp, it is probably the cicada killer. These native insects might look fearsome, but they could be considered gentle giants - unless you’re a cicada, that is.
Local Wildlife Weekly #9: Common Buckeye
The common buckeye is a distinctive migratory species that, while unusual most of the year, becomes hyper-abundant along the shores of the Sound in late summer.
Local Wildlife Weekly #10: Black Skimmer
The black skimmer is a truly remarkable animal and, while it remains unusual on the Sound, its numbers seem to be increasing!
Have you ever wondered why you aren’t allowed to swim at the beach after a big storm?
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Our latest videos:
For all Seaside Center videos, click here.
How to visit Greenwich Point Park
Due to evolving health and safety guidelines, conditions for entry into Greenwich Point Park may change throughout the summer. For information, see the latest updates from the Town of Greenwich, or click here to learn how to obtain a beach pass or single entry pass for 2021.
Click here to help us raise funds for the Seaside Center at Innis Arden Cottage.
