Preschool & Kindergarten Environmental Education Programs
NO AVAILABILITY LEFT FOR THE SPRING SEASON, WE ARE COMPLETELY BOOKED FOR EDUCATIONAL FIELD TRIPS
Peace Valley Nature Center offers exciting outdoor education for young children!
Meandering streams, fields, thickets, woodlands, wetlands and Lake Galena offer diverse habitats to enhance your child's experience and awaken their senses to the wonders of the natural world. Working with small groups, our environmental educators will lead each activity in our 750 acre outdoor classroom.
All Preschool & Kindergarten programs are 1.5 hours long.
(1 or 2 adults per group of 10 students)
If your group has students with special needs, please notify us at the time of scheduling so we may provide the best possible experience for your group.
Environmental Education Programs for School Groups
For questions regarding programming or to schedule a program:
ANIMAL SKELETONS
Bones give animals shape. Look at differentanimal skeletons, compare animals skulls, classify bones by shape and size. Take a walk and discover bones where these animals might live and how their bones help them.
SEASON: ALL YEAR
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90)
BIRDS & THEIR NESTSWhy is a bird different from other animals? Take a close look at their feathers to find out what helps them fly. Discover how birds use their beaks tobuild a nest. Visit the bird blind towatch birds feeding.
SEASON: ALL YEAR
FEE: $8.00 per student (minimum $80)
SENSORY WALKUse your senses to discover the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Sniff a spicy smelling bush, find a tickly, compare colors in nature, share shadows and listen to the sounds around you.
SEASON: ALL YEAR
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90)
SUN POWER
Children will perform simple“hands-on” experiments; take temperatures of water in the sun and in the shade, use a solar water heater and have an ice cube race. Take a walk to discover how the sun warms animals.
SEASON: ALL YEAR
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90)
HOMES & HIDEAWAYS
Every animal has a home. Discover raccoon’s den in a hollow tree, follow mouse trails and look for those large and small critters under rocks and logs.
SEASON: SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90)
BUGS & BEASTIESEnter the weird and wonderful world of small critters. Look for shiny black beetles and salamanders under logs in the woods. Investigate the diversity of insects.
SEASON: LATE SPRING, SUMMER, EARLY FALL
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90)
PONDS & PUDDLESTadpoles and frogs are not the only critters in the water. Children will collect and observe diving beetles, nymphs, waterboatman and other fascinating water creatures.
SEASON: LATE SPRING, SUMMER, EARLY FALL
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90)
WINNIE THE POOH WALK
Search the “100 Acre Woods” for Piglet, Tigger and Pooh’s other friends. Surprise Winnie the Pooh in his special treehouse. Language skills can be enhanced while role playing A.A. Milne’s story.
SEASON: LATE SPRING, SUMMER, EARLY FALL
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90.00)
SEED PRESENTSSeeds are wonderfully designed packages. Take apart a seed to find the tiny new plant inside. Walk the trails to discover the different ways seeds travel and who might eat them.
SEASON: FALL
FEE: $9.00 per student (minimum $90)
ANIMALS IN WINTERWhere do they go? What do they do? Groundhogs sleep soundly, while frogs snuggle down in the mud at the bottom of the pond. Beetles and many other small critters hide in rotting logs, deer search for sunny places. These and many other questions will be answered through observation and discovery.
SEASON: WINTER
FEE: $9.00 per child (minimum $90)
