Home School Early Explorers

Are you looking to get your home-schooled students ages 5-10 engaged with nature and exploring outside? Then this program is for you!  Each program is modeled after our Wildlife Encounter series and includes an indoor classroom program followed by an time of exploration outdoors that is directly tied to the classroom learning. Children ages six and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Location: Ottawa County Parks Nature Center at Hemlock Crossing County Park
Time: 10-11:30 am

Registration is required, click the date to register. Sessions are $5 per student.

11/13/18 – Beavers: Busy Builders

How and why does a beaver cut down trees?  Find out what it would take for YOU to perform the same tasks as we dress someone like a beaver!  Afterward, we’ll go on a beaver hike – looking for the signs of their presence; or if we’re in luck maybe we’ll see one!

2/12/19 – Who’s Track is That?

Winter snow is like a blank sheet of paper.  Learn what creatures are lurking in the woods by studying their tracks and how different animals move in different ways.  After an indoor presentation, we’ll go on a hike outside in search of tracks in the snow and we’ll make a few of our own on the way!  If snow conditions allow, we’ll use snowshoes!

4/9/19 – Woodpeckers: Peckn’ out a Livin’

Early spring means the woodpeckers come out to play!  Learn the how and why they peck on trees and what woodpeckers you might find in the woods.  Then go on a hike in search of woodpeckers and the signs of their presence in the woods.

Questions? Contact the Ottawa County Parks Nature Center: (616) 786-4847

For more information on our Home School Explorers program (ages 10-13), click here.