Fall in the Field

One of the sites for FITf 2023, pictured here, is in the incredible Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Can anyone identify this luscious Lepidoptera?

FITF is back!! Cohort 15 is hard at work putting together another wonderful set of outdoor environmental education programs for 4th through 8th grade classes in Southern Oregon! Registration opens May 8th 🎉🎉🎉 One of our sites, pictured here, is in the incredible Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Can anyone identify this luscious Lepidoptera?

When people go into nature with a readiness to learn, amazing things can happen. Fall in the field is a place-based and student centered field trip opportunity that allows students to discover their individual connection to nature alongside their peers and community. Environmental Ed is for everyone!

Some more student Riparian art for you all to enjoy. In order we have a king Fischer, a northwestern river otter, a beaver, a pacific tree frog, a western pond turtle, another northwestern river otter and another beaver!🦦🦫🐸🦆🐢
Each student group creates a local riparian creature and learns from field guides about their food needs, habitat requirements, and some fun facts.🔎
They then place their model in its most ideal habitat along our outdoor classroom site🌾
The students have created a lot of incredible learning moments for themselves and eachother within this lesson🌞

Attending Fall in the field is a great way to work with scientific tools that students may have never used before. Here we are teaching a soil sampling lesson where students learn about the different types of soil, what components make up soil, and how to find the amount of nitrogen and phosphorous within the soil!
This engaging lesson led to some new discoveries about how soil affects us as people and why we should care about our dirt being healthy!
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