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Join us for Hands-On Environmental Education! NOW ACCEPTING RESERVATIONS FOR APRIL-MAY 2013 DATES (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, April 8 through May 30) (540) 992-2940 or campbetheloffice@gmail.com
NEW Printable KinderCritters Spring 2013 Brochure HERE
If our available dates do not suit your schedule, please consider our YOUR OUTDOOR CLASSROOM education programs for Kindergarteners.
Come for interactive learning through hiking, crafts, games, a wagon ride, and stories. $8 per student; $4 per chaperone; teachers FREE. Bring your own lunch. Lessons are designed for KINDERGARTEN classes and their teachers. SOL's are addressed! KinderCritters programs run April 8 through May 30. For more information or a KinderCritters brochure, please contact Camp Bethel at campbetheloffice@gmail.com or (540) 992-2940. The students will be involved in a number of activities, both fun and educational. The following are a few activities that have been done before during a KinderCritters session:
Activity 1: Hike to the Big Oak
Students hike ¼ mile to our 200+ year-old Big Oak tree. During the hike, leaders point out a variety of plants and wildlife and ask students to compare them according to shape, size, color, etc. These activities require students to use their senses to feel, smell, and observe little wonders pointed out by the leader. After arriving at the Big Oak, students compare its size to other trees and non-living objects in the vicinity. Key Concepts: the five senses, biological diversity, life cycle, stages of growth, maturity, decline and death. SOLs: K.1, K.2, K.6, K.8, K.9 Rain Alternative: Water Water Everywhere! Students describe and observe what happens in a rainstorm, as well as discover the properties of water. SOLs: K.2, K.5
Activity 2: Tree Cookies Lesson & Birds and Worms Lesson Tree Cookies Lesson: In this activity, students trace environmental and historical changes using their own individual cross section of a tree trunk, or “tree cookie.” The leader reads a story describing a tree’s life. Students can decorate their tree cookie and make it into a necklace to take home. Key Concepts: organisms change through life cycle: growth, maturity, decline and death, and organisms’ roles in the ecosystem. SOLs: K.6, K.8, K.9 Birds and Worms Lesson: Camouflage is an important survival strategy in the animal kingdom. In this activity, students discover the value of protective coloration as they pretend to be birds in search of colored worms (made from colored pipe cleaners). Key Concepts: organisms’ adaptations to change, camouflage, effects of altering the environment; interdependence of organisms. SOLs: K.1, K.4, K.6, K.9 Rain Alternative: lesson held indoors
Activity 3: Choose Option 1 or Option 2: Option 1: Texture and Color Hunt: Students use their senses while walking in the woods to find objects of different colors and textures. Once the objects are found, we encourage students to increase their vocabulary in describing objects while blindfolded and match them to pictures with the help of their sighted classmates. Modified, these activities can take place rain or shine! SOLs: K1, K2, K4, K8 Option 2: Animal Habitats and Movements: Students use games and observation to compare and contrast different habitats and experience the pros and cons of each one. They then match animals to their aquatic and terrestrial habitats. More games cover how animals move and adapt to their surroundings to survive. These activities can take place rain or shine! SOLs: K1, K4, K5, K6, K8 Students learn about life cycles of living things and patterns in nature. Through the Young and Old matching game students learn the needs of animals and what they must do to survive, as well as matching young animals with their adult selves. A relay places animals within their habitats. SOLs: K.1, K.4, K.5, K.6, K.8 Heavy Rain Alternative: Wonderful Wildlife
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