EVENING PROGRAMS
Choose the right evening programs for your group!
Choose evening programs based on your curriculum, trip
objectives, and class
development needs.
Beginning at 6:15 PM and ending at 9:00 PM each evening has
enough time for two programs except Underground Railroad, which lasts the entire
evening.
Night Hike
Explore
the natural world at night while learning about nocturnal
animals and their adaptations. Concepts include nocturnal,
diurnal, crepuscular, photoreceptors, and bioluminescence.
Night Hike may be scheduled as a half or full
evening program. After May 10, due to late sunsets evening hikes take place
mainly in twilight conditions.
Campfire Build
community through singing, telling stories, and acting in
skits keeps everyone entertained around the fire.
Concepts include community, old-fashioned
entertainment, and fun.
Town Meeting
Role-play the participants of a town meeting to
explore and discuss environmental issues. Concepts include
development, decision-making, and natural resources.
New Games Participate in cooperative, inclusive,
outdoor games. Concepts
include fair play, cooperation, and safety.
Egg Drop Work together to create a protective shell for
an egg using natural materials.
Once completed, dropping them from various heights
tests the constructions.
Concepts include teamwork and planning.
The Mysterious Thing A hidden object can only be viewed
by a few people. Their
job is to describe it through a line of communication to their
team as they try to create an exact replica.
Concepts include communication and teamwork.
Nature Quiz Show
Participate in various quiz show games to illustrate and
reinforce concepts covered during the Alton Jones program.
Night Sky Learn
about stars, planets, moon phases and seasonal constellations.
Concepts include constellations, star myths,
circumpolar and astronomy.
Does not require a clear night.
Paper Bag Skits Students are given several props, and
environmental question and time to create a skit to perform
for the other students. Concepts
include myths, teamwork, and fun.
Underground Railroad
In this simulation activity, students role-play as slaves and
travel a route to “freedom.”
On the way they encounter safe houses, conductors, and
bounty hunters. Concepts include slave trade, abolitionist,
conductor, and bounty hunter.
This program requires that a visiting schoolteacher
or parent accompany each field group. Seasonal:
Available September through early April.
Need some privacy? Adult sleeping rooms are central to the
student areas for safety/emergency contact reasons but are separate and provide
privacy. Teachers and adult chaperones are welcomed and encouraged to
come along on lessons and activities, but if you aren't needed
and you'd prefer to take a nap, go for a walk, grade papers,
jog the dirt roads, take a
shower, or just sit by the fire that's OK with us! As
long as you're back for meals and cabin times, you can spend your
free time as you like.
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