How much is outdoors?

Most of it, weather permitting, with indoor analysis of what was collected.

Is it a nature camp or a science camp?

A science camp that happens outside. The data work is the point.

Five and up, with the collection work scaled to attention span.

Nature & Environmental Science Camp in Dauphin County, PA

Dauphin County is one of 67 counties in Pennsylvania. Nature & Environmental Science Camp works the same way here as anywhere: give a child a problem too hard to guess at, then refuse to hand them the answer.

Ages 5-13 · For families · Pennsylvania · Northeast

Nature & Environmental Science Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Dauphin County, PA

What the week actually is

Field science is the antidote to the worksheet. Water samples, soil tests, species counts, weather logs — real data the child collected, which means an error is theirs to find rather than the book's to hide.

Day by day

Collect real samples from the site
Test and record
Compare against last year's data
Find the anomaly and argue it
Showcase: the report

Dauphin County, PA — what applies locally

Dauphin County is one of 67 counties in Pennsylvania.
Every public school district inside Dauphin County is eligible for the district licensing terms.
State: Pennsylvania · Region: Northeast

Questions we get from Dauphin County, PA

How much is outdoors?: Most of it, weather permitting, with indoor analysis of what was collected.
Is it a nature camp or a science camp?: A science camp that happens outside. The data work is the point.
Younger children?: Five and up, with the collection work scaled to attention span.

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