Research indicates that today's students are not interacting as much with the natural world as they once did. This lack of communion with nature may be having adverse effects on student learning and behavior, as well as the overall mental, emotional, and physical health of our children. Through the 2008 Explore Your Living World interactive summer institute, students--grades 6-9-- will have the opportunity to cultivate, re-connect to and enhance their innate curiosity of the living world around them by actively engaging in hands on exploration and discovery in their local outdoor environment.
Daily Topics:
- Trees in our community
- Birds in our environment
- Wildflowers Downriver
- Discovering bugs & reptiles
- Topographic map reading
Daily Activities: (slight variations each day)
- 9 - 10 am classroom orientation
- 10 - 12:30 field work
- 12:30 - 1:00 lunch
- 1:00 - 3:00 data analysis/computer lab work.
Help your child to learn to appreciate their natural world with this pecial opportunity. With a student-teacher ratio of 6-1, your child will be given the best experience possible be veteran teachers. They will learn about their natural world, along with using technology to help appreciate, understand and analyze it.