Kellogg Environmental Center & Osborne Homestead Museum Department of Energy & Environmental Protection 

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection can help with information and resources for use in the classroom, at home, or in your local community, including educator workshops, student field trips, and public education courses.  Please see our list of currently scheduled educator workshops.

Perhaps you wish to take your family or students to an environmental education center, a historical museum or a state park  - you can discover all this…and much more.

We offer support to schools and educators on a year-round basis. There is a large variety of resources located at the Kellogg Environmental Center located in Derby, CT.  We are available to discuss educational needs and assist educators and schools in finding the resources in their area to support long standing goals and connections for sustained use of environmental themes in the curriculum.

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Grade Levels:   

• All Grade Levels

• Resource Providers

• Nonformal educators

• Curriculum Developers

Programming Offered:

• In-person field trips

• On-site workshops

• Classroom visits/outreach

• Virtual programs

• Curriculum materials

Curriculum Connections & Themes:

• Natural Resources

• Historical Resources

• Climate Education,

Days:  Camp Take Away

August 6, 2025

9 am to 3 pm

Location:   

Kellogg Environmental Center and Osborne Homestead Museum

500 Hawthorne Avenue

Derby, CT

What to Expect:   Join us for Camp Take Away for Teachers-- a full free day of hands-on activities for you and your guest, of any age- to experience outdoor investigations. Activities from Project WILD, PLT, WET, and Population Education for you to do firsthand and bring back to classrooms.

We are outreach educators in the State Parks for the DEEP and the state coordinators of Professional Development for Project Learning Tree, Project WILD and Project WET, Water Education for Today. 

When you come to Camp Take Away you will be the summer camper and participate in activities exploring fields, gardens, ponds, and forests.

You will make crafts, enjoy snacks, journal, and learn about cultural and natural history through place-based situations demonstrated by resource professionals from a variety of agencies and centers. 

You will use equipment, learn about places to go with students, expand your ideas for units and get all geared up to learn more about the outdoors and Connecticut's resources. 

Topics-

• Birds

• Water

• Forests

• Climate

• Energy

• Habitats

• Careers

• S'mores