Our What 2 Know B4 You Go! program was a very big hit with the three home-school groups who came out to hear us in May and early June.  Though some of the younger children (under age 10) got a bit “antsy” during our stories, most participants found these true-life accounts, the demonstrations, and the […]

We just completed a very successful, 3-season–fall, winter, spring–outdoor ed program for The Children’s School in Illinois.  For a half day during every season of the school year we reconnected children ages 6-12 to the Natural World. The weather was sometimes “iffy”, but it never dampened the wonder and enthusiasm of the children.  They learned to […]

We continue to work with home-school educators to present unique, high-quality, outdoor education programs for their children. In recent months we specifically designed and presented a program for a northside home-school book club to coincide with lessons  learned from their reading of Gary Paulsen’s “Hatchet”. On each of three days in May and early June at […]

On April 30, 2010 Tim and Ron presented a “Wilderness Survival Skills” workshop to approximately 50 adult leaders enrolled in the Northeast Illinois Council, Boy Scouts of America High Adventure Resource Course.  The program called “2010 Powder Horn”  was held at Illinois Beach State Park in northern Illinois, and the participants went home with a […]

The Children’s School, a school of progressive education located in Berwyn, Illlinois, has asked us to help develop an outdoor awareness curriculum for its students, kindergarten through 5th grade.  Once the curriculum is in place, Nature Education instructors along with The Children’s School faculty will engage the stuents in half-day outdoor experiences emphasizing the “Wonders […]