Grades 5-9 Recommended as a winter field trip. Using Broadmoor's energy-efficient, solar heated nature center as a base, this program helps students understand heat energy, its movement, and conservation. Then students explore the sanctuary to see ways that animals spend and conserve energy and water. Discovery teachers are available to lead an ecological investigation of the school yard, introducing activities that develop observation identification skills. A surprising diversity of plants, and animals can be found around playgrounds, along fences and the edges of treed areas, and near ball fields at school.
Students can experience the silence and darkness of night through a variety of activities.
Programs are 1.5 hours and can be scheduled for just after dusk, or in the evening. All rights reserved.