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The Cayuga Lake Floating
Classroom Project
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The goal of the Cayuga Lake Floating Classroom Project is to provide a traveling shipboard classroom that provides educators with the necessary tools to learn about Cayuga Lake and its watershed.
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Bill Foster, Project Manager
email: floatingclassroom@cayugawatershed.org
phone: 607-272-7256
Dennis Montgomery, Captain
email: info@tioherotours.com
phone: 607-697-0166 or 866-846-4376 (toll free)
Floating Classroom Committee Partners:
| Organization/Affiliation | Member |
| Cayuga
Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization (IO) Education, Public Participation & Outreach Committee (EPPOC) |
Lynn Leopold Karin Harjes Bill Foster Jerry Codner |
| Cayuga Wooden Boatworks | Dennis Montgomery |
| Cayuga Lake Watershed Network | Niamh O'Leary |
| Wells College | Niamh O'Leary Tom Vawter |
| Cornell University | Colleen Kearns |
| Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES | Thea Martin |
| Professional Educators | Caroline Hoover |
- Only one similar program exists in Central New York- on Seneca Lake.
- This hands-on experience truly engages students and allow them to learn on their own terms.
- Floating Classroom can be linked nicely with in-school curricula
- Cruising Cayuga Lake provides a unique vantage point for understanding the relationship between
human history and use of the lake, and the ecology and health of the lake itself... its all about creating
a Sense of Place!
- Floating Classroom Data Set
- Floating Classroom Data Entry
- Floating Classroom Picture Gallery
- Floating Classroom Program Brochure - Coming Soon!
- Annual Reports - Coming Soon!
- Lake George Association Floating Classroom Project
- Science
on Seneca Program - Hobart William and Smith College
