Nature Adventure Camp
Grades: 2 - 3
Dates & Times: June 3 - 7 (Week 2), 1 PM - 4 PM (waitlist only!)
Location: Reichardt 235, UAF Campus
Cost: $195
Description: Explore the natural world and the adaptations that allow birds and beasts to thrive. Learn how animals protect themselves. Make plaster casts of animal tracks. Investigate natural resources and make recycled paper. Experiment with vegetable dyes. Test water for pollution and then build a filter to remove anything nasty. Construct a bug house, grow your own crystal garden, and break open a geode. This camp is a unique blend of fun indoor and outdoor activities, hands-on experiments, and projects to make and take home.
Instructor: Brian Crandall
A little about Brian: Brian Crandall works for the College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences (CFOS) here at UAF. Before joining the CFOS team, he taught sixth-grade science in Fairbanks. Brian is also the former owner of Mad Science of the Mid-Hudson (in New York), where students in grades K-8 attended enrichment classes that were a blend of his energetic, wacky humor and hands-on science.
Instructor: Samantha Royer
A little about Samantha: Samantha Royer teaches for the School of Education at UAF. Before UAF, Samantha worked for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, where she most recently taught math at West Valley High School while coaching swimming. Samantha’s passion is helping people see the beauty in math and that everyone can be a math person.