Welcome to the 2024 - 2025 school year! Included within these tabs are important documents and information regarding the current topics in the Environmental Science, Marine Science and Biology classrooms.
All assignments will be given in both paper and digital format. Google Classroom will serve as our platform for assignments and material postings, and class announcements/reminders. Students are encouraged to uploaded completed work on google classroom (even if it is just a picture of work done on paper), but they are not required to submit work on classroom in most cases. Parents/Guardians are encouraged to receive google classroom updates on their child's work completion. If you do not know if guardian updates are engaged for your child, please contact Mrs. Ellis directly. Assignment due dates can be seen for each class on the "Calendars" tab of this website.
No grading will be completed on google classroom. Grades can be found through PowerSchool.
Mrs. Ellis' office hours:
Everyday before school starting at 7:00am and all green-wing breaks
Monday & Wednesday after school 2pm - 3:30pm
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday after school by appointment
| 2024-2025 Bell Schedule.pdf |
Endangered Turtles Head-start Local Conservation Program and Nipmuc Science Students
For the past 9 years Marine Science and AP Environmental Science students have head-started locally endangered turtles in our classroom through Grassroots Wildlife Conservation at Zoo New England. We usually head-start Blandings Turtles, but starting in 2019 we participated in a pilot program head-starting Wood Turtles. This year, we are again participating in this project. Please click the file below to see what head-starting turtles is all about and click the video below to see how our hard work paid off in 2020!
| Blandings turtles and Grassroots Wildlife |
2020 Local Conservation Success!
The 2019-2020 Head Start year was notable for Nipmuc because we were chosen, due to past head start success, to work with a pilot program involving Wood turtles instead of the Blandings turtles the program usually focuses on. Due to the school building closure and inability to have a turtle release field trip in June 2020, Grassroots Wildlife Conservation at Zoo New England made a "Turtle Release Video" for Nipmuc students. Please click the video below to see some of the conservationist working on this head-start project release Hydro and Halo to their new habitat. Their large size (Hydro is the size of a typical 6 year old Wood Turtle) reduced predation possibilities by a large margin, giving them a "head start" in life.
Nice Job 2019-2020 Marine Science and APES students on your success in this local conservation project!
Nice Job 2019-2020 Marine Science and APES students on your success in this local conservation project!
