14 May
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May 19th Children’s Fishing Clinic at Oden Fish Hatchery

Posted By: Jen in Events, Spring    

 

 Oden Fish Hatchery Visitor Center, Oden

  • 9 am - 3 pm
  • Free & open to students grades three through eight
  • Activity stations include fly tying, learning the bugs of lakes and streams, knot tying, conservation ethics, spinning and fly casting, and actual trout fishing.
  • Lunch provided.
  • Register at (231)409-3345 or
15 Apr
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April 20th – “Around the World with the Stars” event at the Headlands

Posted By: Jen in Events, Spring    

Dark Sky Event

7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Location: Beach House, The Headlands, Mackinaw City

INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY WEEK

Join us in celebrating this international event, which occurs each year during the week of April's New Moon (April 16-21, 2012). Students, families, teachers and all are invited to join us for an...

19 Feb
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See “Mother Nature’s Child” on PBS, Sunday, February 19th at 4pm

Posted By: Jen in Educators, Videos    

http://www.mothernaturesmovie.com/ Mother Nature’s Child explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. The film marks a moment in time when a living generation can still recall childhoods of free play outdoors; this will not be true for most children growing up today....

2 Jan
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Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School in Traverse City

Posted By: Jen in Articles, Educators, News    

Education in the Outdoors
 
 
 

Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School

Listen closely to the birds in the forest canopy, taste the edible roots and feel the wind in your hair. This is part of a primary satisfaction – the moments we experience first-hand, inaccessible by television, recollections in a magazine or Facebook...

29 Dec
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Kids need adventure. Parent need to teach them how.

Posted By: Jen in Articles, News    

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Kids need adventure. Parents need to teach them how.

 
Kids want adventure. Parents think it's a good thing. So why doesn't it happen more?  
Half of kids have never camped out? According to this poll of 1500 parents and 1103 kids in the UK, over half of children have never camped out, not even in their back...

9 Sep
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DNR Educator’s Workshops

Posted By: Jen in Educators, Fall, GKO    

Attend a Teacher Workshop

Fish

• Teachers attend a one-day workshop in the fall to learn how to raise Chinook salmon with their students in their classroom, and release them into a nearby river in the fall. The Salmon in the Classroom program is the seemingly limitless subject matter that can easily cover benchmarks in mathematics, social studies, language and arts,...

29 Jun
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DNR – Reconnecting Children and Nature

Posted By: Jen in Articles, GKO, News    

 

Top ten reasons to be concerned

 
1. Children between the ages of 8 and 18 years spend an average of nearly 6.5 hours a day
 with electronic media - Rideout, V. and Hamel, E. (2006). The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Their Parent. Kaiser Family Foundation. (Note: Remember this was published in 2006 think of...

23 Jun
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Wilderness State Park–French Colonial Encampment

Posted By: Jen in Activities, Events, GKO, News, Summer    

June 25th & 26th

On June 25 and 26, 2011 Wilderness State Park invites you and your family to come out and get a look at what daily life was like in a 1750s French Colonial Encampment. This interactive portrayal of life for the early French settlers will give you and your family the opportunity to see and experience history in person. You will be able to intermingle with...