SPRING AND AUTUMN PROGRAMS
Program Descriptions:
Adaptations: (1.5 hours) Through a discovery walk and many interesting activities, explore the adaptations that plants and animals use to survive.
Aquatic Survey: (3 hours) Collect aquatic organisms for a biodiversity index, and conduct chemical tests to compare various aquatic habitats.
Colors of Nature: (1 hour) Discover why plants and animals are the colors they are. This program leads up to the concept of camouflage.
Communities and Interactions: (1.5 hours) Explore the living and non-living components of habitats and discover, through hands-on activities and games, how their interactions form natural communities.
Habitat is Home: (1.5 hours) Explore GVNC's habitats and play games to learn how habitats are important.
Insects All Around: (1.5 hours) Search for insects and discover their characteristics. Learn to identify some major groups and discover how important they are in the food chain.
Lenape Life: (1 hour or 1.5 hours) Explore the lifestyle of the local Lenape Indians in the year 1500. Your students will visit a longhouse, grind corn, and play a Lenape game as they learn about food, family life, hunting, and clothing.
Lenape Skills: (1.5 hours) Experience daily Lenape skills by making a doll and a leather pouch. Learn about animal tracking and tool making in this very hands-on program. There is an additional materials fee. Lenape Life is a pre-requisite.
Nature Discovery Walk: (1 hour) Discover the exciting life that abounds every season of the year.
Pond Pondering: (1.5 hours) Visit GVNC's pond to collect pond organisms and learn about food chains and communities. Be prepared to get wet!
Sensory Saunter: (1 hour) Discover seasonal changes through outdoor activities that uses the senses.
Stream Sampling: (1.5 hours) Learn about the health of our stream by collecting stream organisms and by conducting chemical tests. Be prepared to get wet!
Trees, Weeds, Seeds, & Bees: (1.5 hours) Using active games and hands-on activities, learn about such topics as photosynthesis, pollination, and seed dispersal.
What about watersheds:: (1.5 hours) These hands-on activities are designed to help students understand the concept of a wateshed and the importance of wetlands.
