School and Homeschool Programming
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NATIVE AMERICANS
Location: Caldwell Nature Center
Season Available: Fall, Winter, Spring
Grade Level: Pre-K - 4
This interactive program focuses on the everyday life of an Ohio Native American child in the late 1700’s, including food, clothing and shelter. Children experience daily life skills, pictographs, games and stories. The hike stresses Native Americans’ historic uses of forest resources.
Note: To include daily life style activities, program must run a minimum of 2 hours.
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MAPLE SUGARING
Location: Caldwell Nature Center
Season Available: Winter
Grade Level: Pre-K - 5
Experience how Sugar Maple trees produce sap and why it is collected for syrup only during this brief season. Watch us collect the sap and cook it down. Taste maple sap in three stages of production. The basic
program is one hour in length with half taking place outdoors. An extended program for grades K - 5 that lasts up to 3 hours, including a 30 minute lunch break, covers the basic program plus a hike to tap a Maple tree, and interactive demonstration of Native Americans’ use of maple sap, science experiments and additional hands-on activities. Half of the extended program occurs outdoors.
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FOSSILS, SOILS AND CINCINNATI GEOLOGY
Location: Caldwell Nature Center
Season Available: Fall, Spring
Grade Level: Pre-K - 6
Children participate in an interactive introduction and an exploratory creek hike to find Cincinnati’s famous fossils. A two hour program for Pre-K through Kindergarten covers fossils only. Grades 1 and older investigate geologic processes such as rock formation, soil types, weathering and other forces, past and present, that shape Cincinnati.
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ADAPTING TO HABITATS
Location: Caldwell Nature Center
Season Available: Fall, Winter, Spring
Grade Level: Pre-K - 2
Discover the differences between living and non-living things as we learn how plants and animals interact with their physical environment. We investigate the basic needs of organisms, how their habitat fills those needs and the important role of adaptations. During the hike, children explore three different local habitats.
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ECOLOGY: WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
Location: Caldwell Nature Center
Season Available: Fall, Winter, Spring
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Everything is connected! Study how organisms survive in their ecosystem and how the energy all organisms need flows through the system. As children explore food chains and food webs, they discover what roles everyone plays in an ecosystem and that everything is important.
