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ECO Explorers - 3rd - 5th Grade
ECO Explorers is for children in 4th-7th grade. Explorers offers a combination of hands on learning activities, exploratory play, a guided nature walk, animal highlight, community science participation, scientist/history highlight, art/craft project.
2022-2023 Program Information
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Our Explorers Program will be geared towards children who are in 4th-7th grade (approximate ages 8-11 yrs old). This program is optional drop off.
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There are only 15 openings for this program!
Full year payment option: $300 for the year / Sibling discount $280 ($20 sibling discount applied)*
½ semester payment option: $160 Fall, $180 Spring / Sibling discount $150 Fall, $170 Spring
*You save $40 if you choose to pay for the year.
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We will be offering our Adventurers program in multiple locations in 2022-2023:
Pima County - Marana Heritage Park/Gladden Farms Community Park
and
East Valley - Desert Mountain Queen Creek
and
West Valley - Thunderbird Conservation Park Glendale
*ECO has no affiliation with these parks and the City of Queen Creek, the City of Glendale, and City of Marana assume no liability.
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The Pima County - Marana Heritage Park/Gladden Farms Community Park program will meet every other Tuesday from 10:00 am-2:00 pm for 17 weeks. This program does run concurrently with our Pathfinders and Adventurers programs.
The East Valley - Desert Mountain Queen Creek program will meet every other Tuesday 10:00 am-2:00 pm for 17 weeks.
West Valley - Thunderbird Conservation Park Glendale program will meet every other Thursday 10:00 am-2:00 pm for 17 weeks.
You can view the calendar here.
Each class will follow a similar format:
10 am - Nature Journaling
10:15 am - Learning Activity
11 am - Animal and/or Scientist Highlight
11:30 am Lunch and Exploratory Play
12 pm - Citizen Science and/or Hike
12:45 pm - Art/Craft Project and/or Historical Highlight
1:15 pm - Exploratory Play
2 pm - Class Ends
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Each semester we will focus on a different topic. You can view the class syllabus here.
2022-2023 class topics:
Fall - Rocking it with Geology
Spring - Water in AZ
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Mrs. Kathy and Ms. Gwyn will be the ECO Stewards for this program. You can learn more about them here.
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Registration is now open, please click register to complete the registration form and send your payment either via PayPal or ESA (we will email you an invoice). The remaining spots are indicated on the registration form next to each class.. When the 15 spots are filled for these programs we will deactivate the registration link.
Please make sure you read the registration form carefully.