[Source: Explorer News]
Does your child wonder how wild animals live and thrive in the Sonoran Desert?
Starting this fall, and continuing through the 2010-’11 school year, elementary school groups can arrange to visit Catalina State Park on the east edge of Oro Valley and participate in activities that teach how animals use the five senses to negotiate their environment.
It’s called The Adventure Program, sponsored by Arizona State Parks.
The two-hour program is open to students in grades 1-3 from public, charter, private and home schools. Tours can be arranged by the classroom teacher, a release said. The entry fee is $2 per student.
Over the years, “thousands of Pima and Pinal county students have participated and enjoyed a morning of fun-filled learning activities in an Arizona state park,” the release continued.
REI of Tucson is helping to sponsor this program by providing trail stools for students to use while participating.
For more information, contact program coordinators Andrew and Joanne Hogan at 520-903-4367, e-mail [email protected], or go to the park website.
[You can also download Adventure Program Info HERE (
807 KB PDF)]
