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School Tour Information
Our programs and tours offer students a chance to experience a hands-on learning adventure in the arts, history, or environmental sciences. Tuckerton Seaport has many educational and fun programs to be offered to school groups of all grades. Programs can be tailored to fit your specific curriculum needs. School group admission includes the entrance into the museum and the ‘Seaport Sampler’ a guided walking tour; additional programs are available for specific areas of study.

Seaport Sampler
Experience the Seaport from the people that know it best! Come face to face with history, and see some of the folk artists practicing their trades here at the seaport. Along the Seaport Sampler Tour, you will get a chance to see an overview of the Seaport, visit the Tucker’s Island Lighthouse, see our boat builders in action, check out what the decoy carvers are making, and so much more. Be sure to save some time for JCNERR’s ‘Life on the Edge’ an overview of coastal habitats to remind guests that the culture of the baymen would have been impossible if not for the resources of the area.

School Group Rates
Class rates start at $6/$8per student.
Added programs start at $1/per student
Chaperone admission is included in the class charge*

*Chaperones limited to one per every six students.

Please download our reservation form for more details.

Seaport Sampler Add-Ons:

Victorian Ice Cream

Horseshoe Crabs

Shark Attack

Pound & Commercial Fishing

NJ Shipwrecks & the US Lifesaving Service

Patriot Pirates

Walk on the Wildside

Seining Exploration

NJ’s Colonial Coast
Explore maritime colonial history of NJ as it leads up to the Revolutionary War and Patriot Pirates. Students will learn about NJ’s early explorers, the coastal waterways, the maritime forest and other resources available to colonial settlers, colonial industries of the coast and pinelands and early NJ shipbuilding. Children will get the opportunity to ‘apprentice’ as a ship caulker and try their hand on the Seaport’s caulking board. Optional hands on activities to extend the program include a focus on colonial clothing, where students get to card wool, spin, and try on replica colonial clothes.
Seasons of the Bay, Baymen and Bay Communities
Experience the early 20th century culture of Baymen communities. Learn about the seasonal occupations of baymen families, the natural resources of the
Barnegat Bay and an overview of late 19th and early 20th century coastal NJ history. Students will get to examine samples of salt hay, sphagnum moss and other gathered resources as well as tools including decoys and duck calls.
(Also available as an Outreach Program)
Jersey Shore Folk Life Center's Arts & Inspiration at the Tuckerton Seaport: (120 min outreach/ 40 min on-site) Bring NJ’s treasured folk art traditions to your class! Meet one of the region’s master folk artists and learn about traditional arts and their role in New Jersey history. The artist will guide students through the creation of a handmade heirloom that each student takes home. Choose from any of four folk arts or combine all four for a semester long in-depth unit. Curriculum materials included, meets NJ’s Core Curriculum Standards for 4th grade. Basketry, decoys, quilting and boat building projects currently available. (Also available for outreach programs)

 

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