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 Poughkeepsie, NY

Parents in Poughkeepsie, NY book summer in February and regret it in July. Poughkeepsie is one of the cities the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh, NY metro area is officially named after. What separates a week worth repeating is whether the child was ever genuinely stuck and then unstuck.

Ages 5-13 · For families · New York · Northeast

Nature & Environmental Science Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in Poughkeepsie, NY

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

Poughkeepsie, NY — what applies locally

Poughkeepsie is one of the cities the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh, NY metro area is officially named after.
Metro area: Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh, NY
State: New York · Region: Northeast

Questions we get from Poughkeepsie, NY

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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