Homeschool Groups
The Deering Estate at Cutler offers on-site programming opportunities that are designed to bring the Deering Estate Living Classroom directly to your students. Our Living Classroom provides a hands-on curriculum to community youth in the field of ecology, geology, marine biology, archaeology, history and art. The program’s main goal is to complement formal education within the homeschool program setting and provide students with a chance to apply classroom material to real life situations. All programs are correlated to the Sunshine State Standards. They engage participants in an interactive, positive and balanced activity to help them understand and appreciate, as well as think critically about, the world around them. The Deering Estate Educational & Interpretative staff provides homeschooling educators with fossils, artifacts and tools, preserved specimens, photographs and simple laboratory experiments to help illustrate the key points of a specific topic. The program will accommodate up to 30 people and will be offered once a week for 30 week during the academic year for 2 hours each session (session could be split for lunch at the estate).
The fee is $5 per participant. The cost of material is included in the fee. (Minimum 20 people).
The Deering Estate at Cutler offers Workshops to parents and other members of the homeschooling education community. Full day, on-site workshops highlighting our Living Classroom core curriculum in ecology, marine biology, geology, archaeology, history and art also allow teachers to earn skills and hands-on experiences to enhance their own homeschool curriculum.
For those Parent-Educators wanting to learn more on how to use our curriculum, please call Yoelly Burgos for more information. Price per participant is $5. We will additionally offer a day camp for children ages 5-15 on that day. Our day camp rate is $30 per participant. Bring your own lunch, and water shoes and appropriate clothes to get dirty. Snack is provided.
Please RSVP for all programs to ensure availability. Of course, we are available for questions, interest, ideas, etc. We look forward to a wonderful partnership. Please call 305-235-1668 ext. 238 to RSVP your spot for any of these wonderful programs or send an email to yburgos@miamidade.gov.