Event Details

Nation's Oldest Port Summer Camp 2012: Amazing First Americans

Time: 9:00 am til 4:00 pm

Location: St. Augustine Lighthouse

Description: K-3rd grade

Without cars, ships, or horses, how did the First Americans travel long distances? What food did they eat and how did they hunt? Explore how the first Americans lived before Europeans arrived in the United States. Use clues from archaeology to recreate an American Indian village and invite your parents to visit this time in Florida on Friday.

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Eco Adventure Days

Time: 9:00 am til 2:30 pm

Location: Ravine Gardens State Park

Description: This program is a week long and features fun activities to broadening the children's awareness of the natural world and themselves. Community children going into the 3rd through 5th grade will be able to come to the park and spend each day learning about their environment through fun educational environmental games, stories, crafts and other hands-on activities. Park rangers and subject area experts including archeologists and biologists among others will take the first 30 students to register on an adventure through many parts of the environment while enjoying and exploring the Real Florida. Our goal is to provide a planned environmental education program with fun in mind. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a drop of rain? Discover the wonderful world of the water cycle. What are exotics and invasives, and how do they affect Florida's native flora and fauna? Be an archeologist for a day. Build your own birdhouse or bat house. Discover what happens to our trash when we throw it away. See how Floridas natural ecosystem is dependant on each and every one of us and how we impact our ecosystem as well as what we can do to improve it.

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FPAN is participating in this event.