Accepting reservation requests July 1st.
When you can't bring your class to us, let us bring the Nature Center to you! Science comes alive in your classroom with hands-on, interactive nature-focused programs. Students explore skulls, furs, or other biofacts, and meet some of our resident animals. These programs are offered year-round.
Discover American River life in your classroom! Students compare and contrast mammals, birds and reptiles, examine structure and function of skulls and fur, and meet live animals.
Please Note: For programs presented at your school, schools or organizations more than 15 miles away from the Nature Center will be charged a travel fee of $1 per mile for each additional mile (round-trip).
Online programs are conducted using Zoom and include:
Cost for Online Program: $125
Download a Virtual Program Request Form
Children discover how humans and animals process information from their environments through imaginative and interactive activities, including specimens and live animals.
Please Note: For programs presented at your school, schools or organizations more than 15 miles away from the Nature Center will be charged a travel fee of $1 per mile for each additional mile (round-trip).
Online programs are conducted using Zoom and include:
Cost of Online Programs: $125
Students build an understanding of reptiles and amphibians, and the important role they play in their habitats. Explore reptile and amphibian specimens, meet a variety of local cold-blooded creatures, and learn how you can protect these animals.
Please Note: For programs presented at your school, schools or organizations more than 15 miles away from the Nature Center will be charged a travel fee of $1 per mile for each additional mile (round-trip).
Cost for Online Program: $125
Explore what it takes for animals to survive in their habitats. Students discover unique animal structures, abilities, and behaviors through interactive discussion and up-close observation of live native animals.
Please Note: For programs presented at your school, schools or organizations more than 15 miles away from the Nature Center will be charged a travel fee of $1 per mile for each additional mile (round-trip).
Cost for Online Program: $125
Invite your students to become experts on local birds of prey by exploring specimens and live raptors. Students will examine unique adaptations, discuss environmental roles, and find out how to protect these winged hunters.
Please Note: For programs presented at your school, schools or organizations more than 15 miles away from the Nature Center will be charged a travel fee of $1 per mile for each additional mile (round-trip).
Cost for Online Program: $125
Students examine a variety of animal biofacts to learn their physical structures and adaptations, explore their behavior and physiology, and how their interact with their habitat. Learn what it takes to care for non-releasable wild animals by meeting EYNC animal ambassadors, discovering their stories, and ways we can keep wildlife wild!
Download a Virtual Program Request Form
This distance learning program is conducted using Zoom and includes:
Cost for Online Program: $125
Instructions: