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 Pendleton County, WV

Pendleton County is one of 55 counties in West Virginia. 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 · West Virginia · South

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

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

Pendleton County, WV — what applies locally

Pendleton County is one of 55 counties in West Virginia.
Every public school district inside Pendleton County is eligible for the district licensing terms.
State: West Virginia · Region: South

Questions we get from Pendleton County, WV

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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Nature Science Camp elsewhere in West Virginia

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