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Nature & Environmental Science Camp in St. Cloud, MN

Parents in St. Cloud, MN book summer in February and regret it in July. The St. Cloud, MN metro area has about 205,854 residents, ranking 231st in the country. What separates a week worth repeating is whether the child was ever genuinely stuck and then unstuck.

Ages 5-13 · For families · Minnesota · Midwest

Nature & Environmental Science Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in St. Cloud, MN
Nature & Environmental Science Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in St. Cloud, MN

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

St. Cloud, MN — what applies locally

  • The St. Cloud, MN metro area has about 205,854 residents, ranking 231st in the country.
  • Metro area: St. Cloud, MN
  • State: Minnesota · Region: Midwest

Questions we get from St. Cloud, MN

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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