Update on our February 2015 Kickstarter Campaign!
February 10, 2015 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Alexandria Searls
We have six days left and are at 87% funding! Your pledges through Monday, February 16th will make all the difference! Help support our Migration Station, which teaches about North American migrations through art and dance.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/150849775/teaching-children-science-through-dance
Our New Kickstarter Campaign!
February 5, 2015 | Posted in Uncategorized | By Alexandria Searls
We’re doing our first Kickstarter campaign, Teaching Children Science through Dance!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/150849775/teaching-children-science-through-dance
We have until midnight, February 16th, to receive $2000 in pledges to research, design, and get materials for our new natural history program, Teaching Science through Dance. We’re scheduled to share the program with families at the Virginia Discovery Museum’s Kid*Vention science celebration Saturday, February 21, and then again for Earth Day 2015 on the Downtown Mall. At Kid*Vention we’re running Migration Station, where children will learn about North American animals and their migrations, draw medallions of their favorite animal, and then learn animal dances. The dances will teach about animal locomotion and attributes.
At the 2014 Lewis & Clark Butterfly Festival, dancing the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly
For Earth Day we are moving back in time to explore the wooly mammoth and the giant ground sloth–and to start an exploration of older geological epochs.
Kid-Built Boats on Display Saturday, August 23, at the Boat Ramp in Darden Towe Park
August 20, 2014 | Posted in Uncategorized | By ericdmjohnson@gmail.com
Saturday, August 23, between 10 AM and 2 PM, the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center will display wooden boats built by teens at the Boat Ramp in Darden Towe Park. For over ten years, the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center has been making wooden boats with teens and younger children, teaching planning, teamwork, carpentry skills, and the joys of completing a major project. The smaller boats, called pirogues, will be available Saturday for view and for short paddles on a quiet part of the Rivanna River by the Boat Ramp.
Near the Boat Ramp there will be a display of photographs of the boat building program over the years. The program is a partnership between the City of Charlottesville Department of Parks and Recreations and the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center. Camp counselors from the Parks and Rec summer camps help Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center volunteers with the boat building and planning.
There will also be an opportunity to help paint the newest pirogue, built this summer. The newest boat will be blue and will join a fleet of red, white, green, and yellow.
For more information, see lewisandclarkexploratorycenter.blogspot.com or the Lewis and Clark page on Facebook. In case of rain, the event will be postponed. You can also call Executive Director Alexandria Searls at 434-996-7282
To reach the Boat Ramp, enter Darden Towe Park and take a left. Pass the retention pond to your right. On the left will be the Boat Ramp’s parking lot after the curve in the road.