Science, Arts & Technology

IslandWood offers curriculum and programs that link science, technology and the arts in a unique and powerful experience of exploration, discovery, and learning.

Our faculty bring the expertise to help guide students - young and old - in each of these areas, enhancing the learning experience through activities and programs that address the unique learning styles and interests of each child and adult.

All three disciplines are woven through our educational offerings at IslandWood - residential programs for school-age children, training programs for educators, and summer and year-round weekend programs for adults and families.

Science

Science provides the foundation for inquiry-based studies at IslandWood.

Arts

Connecting the creative process with outdoor hands-on experience cultivates innovative ways of both learning and knowing. The arts expand children's understanding and relationship with both natural systems and cultural communities, providing them the language and models to explore and express such connections.

Technology

Many aspects of IslandWood's design - both physical and programatical - were chosen to be sustainable and environmentally friendly.

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Invertebrate Inn Fireplace

The igneous rocks of the Invertebrate Inn's fireplace were formed by the cooling of hot molten material, called magma when it intrudes below the surface of the Earth and lava when it extrudes out across the Earth's surface. The fireplace rocks are all intrusive, and are coarse grained because crystals had more time to grow in magma that cooled slowly deep below the Earth's surface.