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Nature & Environmental Science Camp in Jerauld County, SD

Jerauld County is one of 66 counties in South Dakota. The case for nature & environmental science camp here is not that the area lacks camps — it is that most of them end without the child being able to explain what they made.

Ages 5-13 · For families · South Dakota · Midwest

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

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

  1. Collect real samples from the site
  2. Test and record
  3. Compare against last year's data
  4. Find the anomaly and argue it
  5. Showcase: the report

Jerauld County, SD — what applies locally

  • Jerauld County is one of 66 counties in South Dakota.
  • Every public school district inside Jerauld County is eligible for the district licensing terms.
  • State: South Dakota · Region: Midwest

Questions we get from Jerauld County, SD

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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