Deering Estate Mobile Education Unit

About the Program

Category: Parks and Recreation (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

The Deering Estate Education department offers a variety of Field Study Trips where students can learn, through engaging hands-on minds-on activities about South Florida’s rich cultural and natural resources. These Field Study Trips place a focus on topics such as scientific method, archaeology, ecology, biology, marine science, and earth science. Since COVID we have seen an increase in demand for doing reverse field study trips where we bring our field study trips to the schools. This is a result of the increase in bus costs and the bus driver shortage. Creating a mobile unit allows our educators to go to the schools and/or locations closer to that school reducing their costs.