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  • Endangered Species (Half Day)
  • Endangered Species Classroom Workshop: (2 ½ hours) - Introduction to endangered, threatened, and extinct animals. Meet the endangered species puppets! (Includes Outdoor Activity - nature walk to identify animals living in/around the river environment; Identify any threatened or endangered animals; Animal footprint identification.)
  • Endangered Species Craft Project Classroom Workshop: (2 ½ hours) - Animal Masks! Learn about endangered animals as you create your own artistic endangered species mask! (Includes Outdoor Activity - parade with the Endangered Species puppets and pretend you’re one of the animals by wearing the Endangered Species mask you created.)
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  • Nature & The Environment ( Half Day)
  • The Earth and Our Environment Classroom workshop: (2 hours)- Understanding our environment and how humans interact with nature. (Includes Outdoor Activity - environmental walkabout identifying how the sun, air, water, land, plants, and animals interact.)
  • Discussion About The Natural World vs. Man-made World Classroom Workshop: (2 ½ hours) ; pollution problems and solutions; what is a LEED building? (Includes Outdoor Activity - hike around Wekiva Island to identify human-made vs. natural and discuss ideas on being stewards to our environment.)
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  • The Science of Weather (Half Day)
  • Weather Classroom workshop: (3 hours) Discuss and learn about various weather patterns in different regions; learn weather terminology; Identify what affects our weather; How weather impacts our planet. Take turns being a meteorologist and giving a weather report on ‘Wekiva Island TV’ Guest visit from channel 9 weather meteorologist Tom Terry. (Includes Outdoor Activity - identify the weather conditions using weather terminology and do a weather experiment- create lightning, static electricity etc.)
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  • Animals of Florida - Birds! Classroom Workshop: (2 ½ hours) Florida birds! Learn about the birds of Florida and their habitats; Observing birds in their natural habitat. (Includes Outdoor Activity - hike the Island and identify birds of the river.) Guest visit from Audubon Society
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