Partner Organizations:

Museums, Nature Centers, Zoos, Aquariums, Conservancies, and Botanical Gardens

These cultural institutions are great resources for teachers at all grade levels, providing additions to your curriculum. 

Berkshires
The Berkshire Museum, www.berkshiremuseum.org
Berkshire Botanical Garden, www.berkshirebotanical.org
Berkshire STEM Pipeline Network at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/Community/stempipeline/
Center for Ecological Technology, www.cetonline.org
DCR- Central Berkshire District, www.mass.gov/dcr
Flying Cloud Institute, www.flyingcloudinstitute.org
Hancock Shaker Village, www.hancockshakervillage.org
Hopkins Memorial Forest, www.williams.edu/ces/hopkins.htm
Housatonic Valley Association, www.hvatoday.org
Samson Environmental Center- Darrow School, www.darrowschool.org/page.cfm?p=34
Silvo O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Great Falls Discovery Center, www.fws.gov/r5soc/

Boston
Boston Children's Museum, www.bostonkids.org
Arnold Arboretum, www.arboretum.harvard.edu
Boston Museum of Science, www.mos.org
Boston Natural Areas Fund, www.bostonnatural.org
Boston Nautical Heritage Group, www.bostonnautical.com
Charles River Museum of Industry, www.crmi.org
Charles River Watershed Association, www.crwa.org
Commonwealth Museum, www.commonwealthmuseum.org
Frederick Law Olmstead National Historic Site, http://www.nps.gov/frla/index.htm
Hale Reservation Outdoor Education Center, www.halereservation.org
Harvard Museum of Natural History,www.hmnh.harvard.edu
Hull Lifesaving Museum, www.lifesavingmuseum.org
MIT Museum, web.mit.edu/museum
New England Aquarium, www.neaq.org
Northeastern University Marine Science www.marinescience.neu.edu
Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center, www.thompsonisland.org
USS Constitution Museum, www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org
Zoo New England, www.zoonewengland.org

Cape Cod/South Shore
Cape Cod Canal U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/ccchome.htm
Cape Cod Maritime Museum, www.capecodmaritimemuseum.org
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, www.ccmnh.org
Cape Cod National Seashore, Marconi Station, www.nps.gov/caco
Heritage Plantation, www.heritagemuseumsandgardens.org
Maria Mitchell Science Center, www.mmo.org
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, www.maritime.edu
National Marine Life Center,www.nmlc.org
OceanQuest, Inc., www.oceanquest.org
Plimoth Plantation, www.plimoth.org
South Shore Natural Science Center, www.ssnsc.org
Thornton W. Burgess Society, www.thorntonburgess.org
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, www.waquoitbayreserve.org
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, www.capecodconnection.com/audubon
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Exhibit Center., www.whoi.edu
Woods Hole Research Center, www.whrc.org
Zephyr Education Foundation, www.zephyrmarine.net

Merrimack River
American Textile History Museum, www.athm.org
Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center, www.amoskeagfishways.org
Beaver Brook Association, www.beaverbrook.org
Lowell Heritage State Park, http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/northeast/llhp.htm
Nashua River Watershed Assn. River Resource Center, www.nashuariverwatershed.org
New England Quilt Museum, www.nequiltmuseum.org
Northeast Region DCR, www.mass.gov/dcr

MetroWest
Christa C. McAuliffe Center, http://www.christa.org
DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, www.decordova.org
Discovery Museums, www.discoverymuseums.org
Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, http://www.fws.gov/northeast/greatmeadows/
Neponset River Watershed Association, www.neponset.org
New England Wildflower Society, www.newfs.org
New England Wildlife Center, www.newildlife.com
Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History, www.spellman.org

North Shore
Cape Ann Museum, www.capeannmuseum.org
Essex County Greenbelt Association, www.ecga.org
Essex Shipbuilding Museum, www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org
Gloucester Maritime History Center, www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org
H.O.B.B.E.S. (Hands-on Boat-based Education & Science), www.hobbesinc.org
Mass Audubon Endicott and Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuaries, www.massaudubon.org
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, www.fws.gov/northeast/parkerriver
Peabody Essex Museum, www.pem.org
Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, www.andover.edu/rspeabody/index.htm
Schooner Adventure, www.schooner-adventure.org
Whale Center of New England, www.whalecenter.org

Southeast
Westport River Watershed Alliance, www.wrwa.com
Watershed Access Lab at Bridgewater State College, www.bridgew.edu/wal/
Stony Brook and Oak Knoll Wildlife Sanctuary, www.massaudubon.org
Schooner Ernestina, www.ernestina.org
North and South River Watershed Association, Inc., www.nsrwa.org
New Bedford Whaling Museum, www.whalingmuseum.org
Natural Resources Trust of Easton, www.nrtofeaston.org
Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies, www.thelloydcenter.org
Easton Children's Museum, www.childrensmuseumineaston.org
Capron Park Zoo, www.capronparkzoo.com
Buttonwood Park Zoo, www.bpzoo.org

Springfield/Holyoke
Children's Museum of Holyoke, www.childrensmuseumholyoke.org
Amelia Park Children's Museum, www.ameliaparkmuseum.org
Amherst Historical Society, www.amhersthistory.org
Botanic Garden at Smith College, www.smith.edu/garden
Hitchcock Center for the Environment, www.hitchcockcenter.org
Mount Holyoke College Botanical Gardens, www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/botan/
Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary, www.norcrossws.org
Ocean Alliance, www.oceanalliance.org
Quabbin Visitor Center, DCR, www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/central/quabbin.htm
Springfield Science Museum, www.springfieldmuseums.org
Wistariahurst Museum, www.wistariahurst.org

Worcester
EcoTarium, www.ecotarium.org
Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest, http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/museum.html
Higgins Armory Museum, www.higgins.org
MA DCR- Water Supply Protection, www.mass.gov/dcr/waterSupply/watershed/dwmed.htm
Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Broad_Meadow/index.php
Old Sturbridge Village, www.osv.org
Tower Hill Botanic Garden, www.towerhillbg.org
Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, www.massaudubon.org
Worcester Art Museum, www.worcesterart.org

General
Center for Education Partnerships, www.cfep.uci.edu
Eagle Eye Institute, www.eagleeyeinstitute.org
Green Teacher, www.greenteacher.com
Horizons for Youth, www.horizons-for-youth.org
KidWind Project, learn.kidwind.org
Learning By Design, www.architects.org/programs_&_education/index.cfm?doc_id=34
MA Dept of Environmental Management, www.mass.gov/dcr/listing.htm
MA Water Resources Authority, www.mwra.state.ma.us
Mass Audubon Society, all locations, www.massaudubon.org
Mass DCR, all locations, www.mass.gov/dcr
Nature's Classroom, www.naturesclassroom.org
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association www.nesea.org
The Trustees of Reservations, all locations , www.thetrustees.org