I started out our third week together by giving the BCE research team each their own field notebooks. They reminded me the week before that they wanted journals for sit-spot time, and although I want to make sure we work together to keep the official BCW field notebook up to date with all our data […]
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We had big plans for the Bear Creek Explorers’ second week together: explore Bear Creek! But first, we checked the rain gauge and started our field notebook entry for the day. As a group, we decided to rotate through who does the actual writing in the book, with the youngest starting us off with the
It was hard to believe last Wednesday morning that the day had finally arrived. After a year of discussing, planning, website building, marketing, buying a new van, emails, phone calls, liability forms, insurance payments, billing, and bookkeeping- at last, I had a group of kids who wanted to join me for weekly full-day adventures in
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We’ve passed the midpoint of summer and suddenly there’s a flurry of activity as we look towards fall and consider our options for the year ahead. I told myself a year ago that I’d give my all to this small business, aimed at connecting young people with nature, for a full year and then take
An article I wrote was featured in Clearing, a place-based environmental education magazine. This issue focuses on student-initiated field-based scientific inquiry and I wrote an article titled, “A Natural Fit: Homeschooling and the Establishment of a Student Research Forest.” Check it out!
By: Julia Carr A hawk cried in the distance as a dedicated student resolved to press on with instructor Jess and finish the steps of a scientific experiment aimed at preserving and enhancing the native plants at Bear Creek Meadow. Immersing into nature’s classroom is the heartbeat of Wild Alive Outside where we cultivate a
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