Registration Instructions: Please use the adult chaperone's name for all registrants (adult and child). Children's name and age can be entered under 'Additional Information'. 

Learn all about the importance of rivers to wildlife and humans with Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory! This is an outdoor, activity and experimental based field trip focusing on salmon migration, river food webs, and engineering design with our favorite ecosystem engineers- beavers! Students will love going on a nature walk, building a river food web, learning about human impacts on salmon migration through our obstacle course, and putting their engineering skills to the test by designing and refining a beaver dam. This lesson is NGSS aligned and addresses the following concepts: 

• Relationship between physical traits and survival strategies of animals
• Cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems
• Relationship between habitat and food web structure
• Biodiversity and humans: human impacts on habitat and organism survival
• Ecosystem preservation and best practices for nature stewardship
• Engineering design: defining a problem, developing solutions, optimizing the design solution 
  

Program Details and Logistics

• This program is geared toward homeschooled students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
• At least one adult chaperone is required per group. There is no fee for adult chaperones to attend. 
• All tools and materials for program activities are provided.
• This program takes place indoors and outdoors. Students should wear sturdy footwear such as boots or sneakers, and dress for the weather.
• Please bring snacks and refillable water bottles.

Registration: $15/child; $10/additional child in family
Adult chaperones are free