Outdoor Environmental Education Programs

Instruction does not end when the sun goes down! After dinner students may go on a night hike and conduct some science experiments in the dark, attend a planetarium presentation, do some student service learning, or roast a marshmallow at the campfire. Or students may continue bonding with their fellow sixth graders by writing cabin songs, playing nature games, or doing arts and crafts. Whichever activities the school plans, students are busy right up until bedtime.

Lesson Resources

•  Night Science Lessons 
• Triboluminescence Information
• Evening Activity Suggestions 
• Outdoor Ed Jeopardy  (Not all slides will apply to all schools-feel free to change.) 

Night Science Activities: Senses

• Bat and Moth
• Firefly

STEM Lesson investigating Run Off   

Invasive Species Games to Introduce SSL

• Survival!
• Kudzu Tag
• Butterflies and Non-Native Plants
• Sediment, Sediment