Burton 4-H Center welcomes all students, parents, and homeschool groups! We partner with Chatham County 4-H Club to offer a monthly “Marine Science Club” (September-April) for individual sign-up as well as opportunities for organized homeschool groups to create a day program.
Homeschool Listserve
If you want to get notified of our current homeschool club programs, updates, and more, please complete the signup form below to be added to our listserv.
Want to book your own homeschool trip?
The Georgia 4-H EE Program welcomes all students, parents, and homeschool groups! We treat homeschool groups like all of our school reservations.
To determine whether day programs or residential programs are the best fit for your homeschool group, please see the considerations listed below visit our day programs and residential (overnight) program pages.
If you are ready to book, please visit and complete the reservation form on our Rates & Reservations page.
Considerations before making a homeschool program booking:
- Identify one person to be the “lead contact” on behalf of the homeschool group. The lead contact is responsible to pick group classes, collect money, arrange deposit and1 form of payment as well as other organize details and other logistics of the trip outside of our standard program.
- The minimum is 20 paying people to make a reservation. Our maximum is 156 people.
- Teaching groups are determined by overall group size. We aim to have 10-15 students in a learning group. The more students you have, the more likely we can accommodate multiple teaching groups based upon ages.
- Rates are per person (parents and students) for both day programs and overnight programs. We do not adjust rates for individuals and families who choose not to participate in all of the classes, meals, and lodging available.
- The minimum age recommendation for students is to be 5+ years old. The program is a lot of fun but can be physically exhausting due to long days and evening classes for younger students
- Reservations open 18 months in advance. We recommend homeschool groups to book during our Fall Season (August-December) as most school groups book months and years in advance for our Spring Season (February-May). Please note, availability can always change.
Other homeschool program questions?
Please contact our Environmental Education Program Coordinator for other questions.
Contact
Erine-Fay McNaught, EE Program Coordinator
Burton 4-H Center on Tybee Island
Phone: (912) 786-5534 Fax: (912) 786-9814
E-mail: erinefay.mcnaught@uga.edu
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (working cooperatively with Fort Valley State University, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the counties of Georgia) offers its educational programs, assistance, and materials to all people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or protected veteran status and is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action organization.