LIVE & VIRTUAL PROGRAMS
Highlights Below. Full Catalog of One Day Programs Here.
FALL RECOMMENDATIONS:
• Be a Tree: Learn about how trees function through art and exploration. Pre-K, K-5, middle school, and teen/adult versions available!
• Mysterious Mushrooms: Focuses on the roles fungi play, mushroom i.d., and making mushrooms with clay. Guided walk/scavenger hunt based on age and interests, including how fungi "talk".
• Awesome Opossums. Learn all about North America's ONLY marsupial! Make a mom with babies as we explore trivia about these amazing beneficial creatures that eat ticks and carrion, reducing disease for other animals.
• Just Batty! Discover how bats help reduce mosquitoes and plant pests, and even pollinate and disperse seeds in warmer climate. Make a bat puppet and try the sonar obstactle course. Test your knowledge with fun trivia!
National Bat Week is October 24-31!
• Spooky, Silly Spiders! Take the scare out of spiders making an orb web weaver, jumper, or other spider and make it dance! Learn how to better identify spider types and the niche they occupy.
Winter Recommendations​
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Winter Adaptations - Discover the various ways animals survive the winter, including animal adaptations, camouflage, migration, and hibernation.
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Winter Birds - Create a cardinal collage in the style of Charley Harper, as an art piece or card. Learn about seed-eating birds in the Northeast, which birds migrate, and how to tally them as a Citizen Scientist!
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Nutty Squirrels - Learn about RI's SIX squirrel species and how each adapts to its special niche. Look at skulls and furs. Make a squirrel craft. Go on a scavenger hunt. It's gonna be nuts!
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Coyote Howls - Role-play how coyote populations change. Play "Rabies" tag. Compare the skulls and furs of wolf, coyote, and fox. Make an origami canid of their choice while listening to "Coyote Places the Stars".
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Animal Detectives - Learn to track animals by their nests and other homes, tracks, scat, and food remains. Get a track guide to take home.
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Likeable Lichens - Learn about this pioneer that is part fungus, part algae, and more! Identify growth types, pollution-tolerance, and fruiting bodies. UND
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Eco Warriors
A 12 week after-school program featuring hands-on kits, live Zoom sessions, art, data collection, science activities, and outdoor requirements.
Tree Selfies
What's growing on? Tree power! Learn about the structure and function of trees while drawing yourself as one. How will you fight climate change?
Totally Turtles!
60 packed minutes of turtle trivia as we create art and learn how to prevent water pollution. Live version features decorating reusable bags!
Milkweed & More
Milkweed supports more than just monarchs. Learn all about this amazing plant, its parts and life cycle, and the many animals that interact with it day and night. Includes a drawing activity, lecture, videos, and games.
Creating Habitats
Learn how to attract birds, plant for pollinators, create space for amphibians, and protect the environment!
Compost Cafe
Meet Blind Lemon Nightcrawler, the deep underground jazz worm who teaches about compost and food waste through art, interviews, and games. Start composting!
Backyard Bees
"Ace" your bee i.d.s of nature's many pollinators while you create a memorable playing card.
Frogs and Toads
Learn about the life cycles, habitats, range, call, defenses, and threats to over ten species and how you can protect them. Design trading cards!
Mysterious Mushrooms
Decomposers, secret talkers, super moochers, oh my! Fungi interact with so much of life on earth. Learn their roles in the environment while you embark on a colorful and bizarre journey through the Northeast.
Microscope Kaleidoscope
What's moving under the microscope? Learn about paramecium, amoebas, and more while making abstract art.
IN-PERSON FIELD TRIPS
Animal Detectives
Learn how to search for and identify animal tracks, scat, food remains, shelters, and more. Then collect data, and assess the biodiversity of your site. Program can run for either 45 minutes or 90 minutes. For Grades 3 and up. Kits available for virtual program.
Tree Detectives
Identify trees and tree parts. Learn about their role and function in climate change mitigation, the value of trees, trees as habitat, native versus non-native/invasive species, and more. Includes scavenger hunts, “crazy crayons” leaf rubbing activity, a leaf detectives station (featuring galls, bites, skeletonized, and spotted), and a tree selfie station. Program can run for either 45 minutes or 90 minutes. Appropriate for all ages. Kits available for virtual program.
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Seed Detectives
Uncover the mystery of how seeds get around! Prep for a scavenger hunt, sort through your findings, draw seed shapes and patterns, and learn how to preserve your seeds! 45 minutes. For Pre-K through Grade 2. Kits available for virtual program.
Custom Field Trip
Interested in a specific environment- and/or art-related field trip that is not listed here? Get in touch with us! We can make experiences from macroinvertebrates to your favorite local mammal! Kits available for virtual program.