second in a series of study guides published by Project Nature, the Sandy Shore, is aimed at sparking interest amongst young people in the environment.

Topics such as marine pollution, geology, animals and plants are brought to life with illustrations and maps.

And ideas for field trip activities mean teachers can take students out of the classroom to see nature for themselves.

Project Nature volunteer Mrs. Marg Hammond said the book follows The Rocky Coast which was enthusiastically received by teachers when it was first published two years ago.

"Aimed at middle school students, the field study guides are designed to give teachers all the information they will need on a particular habitat without being too technical,'' said Mrs. Hammond.

"Now a teacher's unfamiliarity with natural history and the hundreds of hours of research necessary to assimilate the information are no longer deterrents to planning class field trips. Bermuda's teachers have responded by taking their classes out and by asking when the next guide is due,'' she said.

The next in the series will be a guide on the upland forest which will cover caves, Longtails, Sargassum weed, butterflies, lizards, toads, endangered birds and ground water geology.

Funded by the Bermuda Paint Company, the in-house guides cost $15 and are on sale at the Aquarium gift shop.

In recognition of Earth Day 1995, Project Natures volunteers will be producing a series of fact sheets on natural history topics. They will be distributed to all schools courtesy of Bermuda Paint and the Bermuda Zoological Society.

FIELD TRIP -- Whitney Institute pupils Susana Costa, Bruno Madeiros and Chaj Dora Caines make good use of their new Project Nature field guide, the Sandy Shore, at Shelly Bay last week.