Tag: Environmental Camp
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Promote Environmentalism In Children
Today, the environment is part of every political conversation, especially global warming. Yet, despite science a large number of people do not believe that it is a relevant issue. As the Director of an overnight summer camp with a science…
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Environmental Summer Camps in Minnesota
Minnesota is blessed with many natural resouces and a rich natural back drop. Yet, Minnesota is becoming increasingly urban, not just Minneapolis or St Paul, so too is the percentage of Minnesotans living in Greater Minnesota’s cities and towns. In…
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Summer Science Camps
Recently I was poking around the web and I saw this article about the benefits of choosing a science summer camp program over some other type of summer camp. Being that this is what we do I found it extremely…
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Real Science Summer Camp
Last summer was a very exciting summer because we got to participate in REAL SCIEN!CE Thats right in a project funded by the State of Wisconsin we raised a biological contorl thatreduces the evasive spies of Eurasion Milfoil. The milfoil…
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Science At Summer Camp
2011-2012 is the Year of the Bat! Now is the time to educate children regarding the essential roles of bats in maintaining healthy ecosystems and human economies has never been more important. Bats are found nearly everywhere and.... approximately 1,200…
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Earth Day - Kids Need More
On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe.…
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Nature Camp in Winter
During our winter stay at camp a local camp neighbor, Delon came by with his snowmobiles and offered to take Forrest and I on a nature tour. It was exciting we had a sunny day with balmy high 20 temps.…
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Experts say- Get Outside and Play
Anyone can read a book about ecology or see a film about wild animals. But, today's children are missing contact with the outside world. Children learn more rapidly through natural curiosity, experimentation and discovery, rather than a classroom lecture. That's…
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Fix Nature Gap
Children detach from natural world as they explore the virtual one San Francisco Chronicle Peter Fimrite, Yosemite may be nice and all, but Tommy Nguyen of San Francisco would much prefer spending his day in front of a new video…
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Earth Day
On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe.…
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Eagles at Camp
Swift Nature Camp is known for our eagles. Daily we see eagles in the air, in nests and even swooping down to catch a fish in the lake. But how many knew that once it started to get a little…
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Super Tom at SNC
On our recent trip to Swift Nature Camp we had a chance to meet up with Tom Nilcen aka SUPER TOM. Most of the campers know him as the kind , friendly caretaker at SNC. Yet, Tom is so much…
Published in Children's Summer Camp
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Testimonials
Friends is what brings me back to SNC.
Jason