• Little Traverse Conservancy will offer pond dippin' for kids of all ages.
• 10 am - 11:30 pm, Saturday, May 19th
• Spring Lake Park, Petoskey, on M-119
• Free!
• Pre-registration required.  Call (231)347-0991  

http://www.globeatnight.org/

About GLOBE at Night

The GLOBE at Night program is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists to measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations to a website from a computer or smart phone. Light pollution threatens not only our “right to...

Passport to Adventure encourages children and their families to get outdoors and explore, while promoting local events, programs, and nearby natural destinations. (more...)

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture –  By U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

  WASHINGTON, April 4, 2011– Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $1 million in cost-share funding for children's programs in 18 states and Puerto Rico, furthering USDA's commitment to connect young people around the country with America's great outdoors. The two programs receiving funding through...

Ask almost anyone over 35, in any part of the country, and they will invariably remember spending their childhoods in the same place: outside. Every day. All day. From morning until dusk, returning home only "when the streetlights came on," recalls Ashley Donahue, 38, from Roanoke, Va. Yet few kids today are able to experience nature that way. In only a generation,...

Match a Leaf to the right tree A tree that hasn’t started to grow yet...a seed! Red Rocks Something BLUE A Feather Smell a Flower Something that makes NOISE! A sign that an animal has been here. A piece of litter A leaf with teeth Something YOU like A camouflaged animal or insect Something ROUND A cone from an evergreen   STOP!...

Site Overview - Allow students to orient themselves to the site by walking around the schoolyard using the building as the point of reference. - How is the schoolyard divided? (play structures, designated play area, natural areas, and roads - Where are the human-made boundaries? Natural boundaries? (Scale: pace off and record distances to certain...