Fall & Summer Fieldtrips for schools and groups
Hands on learning experience at the source of your drinking water!
A powerful learning experience out of the classroom, these fieldtrips are designed for 4th and 5th grade students. We have tailored the content of these fieldtrips to reinforce what the students are learning in the classroom. Over the past two years, we have led over 1,500 students on learning expeditions in their mountains backyard.
Lead by both experienced staff and our fantastic volunteers,these programs seek to connect participants with the basic science of their watershed and the natural history of the Wasatch Mountains. After all, it's hard to not want to take care of the source of your drinking water after you have a connection with it!
These fieldtrips are co-led through a partnership between the staff and volunteers of the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation, the SLC Department of Public Utilities Watershed and the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
While on our summer and fall fieldtrips at the Silver Lake Nature Center, we engage students in a series of hands and minds on activities that explores their connection to their drinking water and watersheds. Hands on activities include macroinvertebrate sampling, a build a bug activity and an exploratory walk around the beautiful Silver Lake boardwalk.
On past fieldtrips, we've watched moose (from a safe distance!), been observed by mink sneeking glimpses at us, trout swimming in the streams and checked out some beaver lodges & damsn.
Here are some further details:
- 2007 Trips run June through Mid October
- Free of charge!
- Macro invertebrate sampling, walks, etc!
- Call (801) 466-6411 to schedule
- Take place on fully accessible .7mile boardwalk
- Group size limited (flexible) to 60 participants
- Guided by trained naturalists!
Once class is signed up, we send pre/post materials, including permission slip. All education programs have an emphasis on safety and learning.