School’s Out Nature Camp

Get the kids out of the house and outdoors on this school holiday! The first camp is February 20 and the second is March 16, both are no-school days. Using the nationally-acclaimed Project Learning Tree curriculum and the wonderful property at the Moebius Nature Center, students will be engaged in a day of fun and educational activities that include everything from nature papermaking with a licensed art teacher to hikes around the property. Kids will really get their hands dirty doing science experiments and will be involved in many other discovery activities and discussions.

Students should dress warmly in layers for inside (it is heated but may still be cool) and be prepared with hats, gloves and boots for getting outside (you may want to bring shoes for being inside). Also, please bring a sack lunch (we have a water fountain).

Activities may include (weather dependent) identifying objects in our Mystery Box only using the sense of touch, finding the elusive “Peppermint Beetle” outside and discussing why the sense of smell is important to animals, creating an alphabet book or miniature habitat based on the Moebius Nature Center area, learning about tree cookies and how to read them, discussing Earth Manners and how to express appropriate ways to treat living things and act in a forest or other natural area, investigating physical characteristics of various soils, making a special seeded handmade recycled paper, and understanding the structure of a tree and how the different parts of a tree help the tree function in a movement-based activity.

Questions? Contact June Lucal @ 330-995-8687 or email kim@moebiusnaturecenter.org