Educational Farm & Nature Preserve

3083 Liberty Road Delaware, Ohio 43015
740-363-2548

We are open to the public:
Monday - Friday,
9-5
Closed: Saturday, Sunday
and holidays

Getting to Stratford:

map & directions>

A $2 per person or $5 per family donation is appreciated for those wishing to spend time at Stratford.

 

We would be happy to visit your school to share a presentation of Sunship Earth with your teachers, administrators and parents. Once you see the program, you'll be hooked!

For more information or to schedule a presentation of the program for your teaching staff, contact:

April Hoy
(740)363-2548
secearthshare@aol.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunship Earth

A Highly Experiential 5-day Program for 5th Grade Classes

Children participate during their school day and return home each night. These 5 days at the Sunship Study Station help students understand how their world functions – and to like what they understand.

While addressing 80% of the 5th grade Ohio Academic Content Standards for science, students learn how this very special planet, our "sunship," operates, and how we can both enjoy the ride and help keep the ship going on behalf of all the other passengers

Details

• Sunship Earth is offered in the fall, beginning September 24th and ending November 16th.


• Schools attend from 9am-2pm each day.


• The cost is $60 per student. That works out to just $12 per day. Teachers and chaperones are free.

Sunship Earth Brochure>

Program Components:

• Throughout the week, students decipher the mysterious code "EC-DC-IC-A," learning the secrets to how the Earth functions (energy flow, cycles, diversity, change, interrelationships, community, and adaptations).


• Students use "Passports" as a roadmap to understanding key concepts by reading, participating in a hands-on activity and applying and demonstrating their new-found knowledge.

QUICK LINKS

Sunship Earth Brochure>

Messages from the Earth Brochure>

Sunship Earth Intern Announcement>

Sunship Earth Intern Application>

MORNING ACTIVITES:

• Students learn about photosynthesis by climbing inside the world's most important "Food Factory", a giant leaf.


• Students visit a "city of the future" to learn about the air cycle.


• At a real cemetery, students discover the soil cycle through the flow of life and death.


• By becoming squirrels, students experience the importance of diversity.


• Through a simulated plane crash, students become first responders rescuing species by learning the importance of homesite.


• At an abandoned community, the students discover the importance of niche by role-playing the many jobs in nature.


• At Mama Nature's Kitchen, the students learn the secret ingredient in making soil – time.


• Other stimulating activities engage the students' imaginations and desire to learn on the morning "concept paths".

AFTERNOON ACTIVITES

• In balance with the information-gathering components of the program are relationship-building activities, opening up the opportunity for students to appreciate and value nature.


• By role-playing being an artist as well as a scientist, students discover the various viewpoints from which one can explore the world.


• At their daily "magic spots," students observe, journal and awaken their curiosity by visiting the same place in the forest to experience the quiet calm that a solo experience in nature can provide.


• As designers of the new "Leprechaun National Park," students discover the amazing features that lie underneath every footprint as they create their own micro-park.

 

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