Virtual Conservation Field Day

In keeping with the annual tradition of providing several ‘conservation day’ programs to area students, and in spite of COVID restrictions making in-person conservation day programming impossible within area schools, BCCD has created a virtual conservation day program menu option for teachers, educators, parents and students to access on their own time and within the safety of their own unique learning environment.

​Any classroom teachers, home-schooling parents or other educators that wish to set up a livestream question and answer session between staff and students on any of these video topics, are welcome to contact education coordinator Dan Rhodes to set up a meeting. Until then, we encourage everyone to ‘keep using natural resources wisely’!
Daniel.Rhodes@pa.nacdnet.net (570)-265-5539 X 3125 

Fish & Wildlife

PA GAME COMMISSION: History and goals for wildlife conservation.
​(Grades 3-8)

PA GAME COMMISSION: Storytime Bats. (Grades k-3)

PA Game Commission: Elk-celebrating 100 years of restoration. (Grades 3-8)

PA GAME COMMISSION: Bald Eagles-celebrating 30 years of restoration.
​(Grades 3-8)

PA State Bird: Ruffed Grouse
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Historic Museum Commission: Exploring wild turkeys
​(Grades 2-12)

PA Game Commission: Whitetail deer
​(Grades 3-12) 

 PA Game Commission: Black bears
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: Aquatic resource conservation
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: Freshwater mussels and water quality
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Fish & Boat Commission:
​What makes a fish a fish
​(Grades 2-8)

PA Fish & Boat Commission:
​Musky fish hatchery and conservation
​(Grades 2-8)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: 
​Raising and stocking PA's trout
​(Grades 2-8)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: 
How and why create fish habitat structures in trout streams
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: 
Get to know PA turtles
​(Grades 2-8)

Agriculture

PA FarmKid: 
Intro to PA FarmKid Ag video series
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: 
Broadcasting nitrogen on corn
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: 
Lancaster, PA Wheat Harvest
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Equipment tour on a PA Dairy Farm
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Corn-Harvesting
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Spreading solid manure
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Chores and rodent control on the farm
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Spreading lime on the soil and why it's needed
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Planting corn
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Complete process of cutting and baling hay
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Up close and see how we make small square bales of hay
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Feeding dairy calves
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: 30ft air drill seeding wheat
​(Grades 3-8)

PA FarmKid: Harvesting soybeans
​(Grades 3-8)

PA Farm Bureau: Youth explanation of dairy farming operations
​(Grades 3-8)

WikiFarmer: How to raise goats
​(Grades 3-12)

Raising Chickens 101: Getting started
​(Grades 3-12)

Forestry

PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry: 125 years of forest conservation
​(Grades 4-12)

PA Forest History
​(Grades 4-12)

US Forest Service: A better way to think about wildfires
​(Grades 4-12)

US Forest Service: Rewards for good forest management
​(Grades 4-12)

The science behind maple sap and maple sugaring
​(Grades 4-12)

America's Forests: A history of resiliency and recovery
​(Grades 4-12)

Maple Sugaring at the Dewy Meadows Farm
​(Grades 1-12)

Water

Bayscape 3D Watershed and Pollution Model
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: Stream bioassessment for water quality 
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: Nonpoint source pollution stream assessment
​(Grades 3-12)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: What is a watershed?
​(Grades 3-8)

PA Fish & Boat Commission: Intro to Nonpoint Source pollution - sediment
​(Grades 3-12)