Join The Ecology Center this summer as we launch our first ever Summer Camps!  We are offering two sessions, one for kids aged 6 to 9 and the other for kids 9 to 12.  Both camps are centered around our outdoor, interactive Eco-Labs and promote participatory learning, systems thinking, experimentation, and observation.  On the last day of camp participants will take part in our Farm to Fork experience where they will harvest and prepare their own lunch. Each camp includes a take-home Eco-Kit.

Registration begins April 30, 2011.  Early registration for members begins April 23, 2011.

Eco-Labs Camp

5 days $185 – August 1st-5th 11am-3pm
Age: 6-9
Participants will engage in a series of outdoor learning stations that collectively demonstrate the cyclical nature of humans’ impact on the environment in five focus areas: water, food, waste, energy, and shelter. Some activities include rainwater harvesting, graywater systems, seed germination, container gardening and harvesting, cooking, shelter construction, composting and alternative energy technologies.

DAY 1: WATER
Activities include learning about harvesting rainwater, graywater usage, The Watershed (an interactive narrative on where our water comes from, how we use it and where it goes when we are done with it), water-carrying competitions and ways to reduce our water footprint.
DAY 2: WASTE
Activities include composting with worms, chickens husbandry, creating less waste, closing the waste cycle and screen printing on an old t-shirt to make it new.
DAY 3: ENERGY
Activities include an energy audit, solar oven cooking, alternative energy education and kite making.
DAY 4: SHELTER
Activities include fort building 101, debris-hut building, shelter design, fire safety, useful and edible native plants and gourd canteen making.
DAY 5: FOOD
Activities include germination, harvesting, cooking and planting a container garden. Participants will take in our Farm to Fork experience where they will harvest veggies from our garden and prepare their own lunch.

Become a member today to register early and be a part of the solution!
Registration begins April 30, 2011.  Early registration for members begins April 23, 2011.