Sunship Earth

5 Day/4 Night Educational Program

Experience the amazing processes that affect life on our planet by becoming immersed in five days of fun activities. Sunship Earth is a curriculum-based environmental science program that teaches major environmental concepts (for example, cycles, succession, niches, food chains) while giving students an appreciation of the Earth’s wonders, and motivating them to protect the precious life systems on our planet.

  • …become clouds traveling through the water cycle
  • …work as food producers inside a leaf to better understand photosynthesis
  • …avoid becoming the prey of hungry coyotes in a game of environmental competition
  • Group Size: 25 – 35 students + 6 adults (teachers and parents from the school)
  • Grades: 5th – 6th
  • Camp Location: T.R.E.E.’s Outdoor Classroom – Northshore
  • Length: 5 Day/4 Nights – Overnight resident camp for 5th and 6th grades – Friday through Tuesday
  • Program: Highly structured educational program to teach Earth processes using FUN activities
  • Cost: contact us for information – includesprogram materials, meals, lodging, transportation – FREE for Adults
  • Availability: Offered to New Orleans area students – from October through April
  • Follow-up activities at school and at home are offered and are strongly encouraged

Sunship Earth is a copyrighted program that was developed by The Institute for Earth Education.

View the State Content Standards and Benchmarks + Relevant GLEs for Science, Math, Social Studies and Language

 

I thought the pacing of the program was excellent – kept the students on their toes and ready for any surprises – also teaching them when they don’t know they were being taught is something I work on every day – you did a fantastic job of this! I hope Johnson will be able to come in future years.

Neal Manor (teacher)

 

 

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PROGRAMS

Lost TreasuresLost Treasures
a full academic year program taught weekly in the classroom for third grade and on into fourth grade
Earth KeepersEarthkeepers
a three-day Outdoor Classroom program for fourth grade
Sunship EarthSunship Earth
a five-day/four-night Outdoor Classroom residential program for fifth grade
Sunship 3Sunship III
a three-day/two-night Outdoor Classroom residential program for seventh grade