Join us for a visit from Santa Claus! We will have lots of treats, crafts, and music to celebrate the end of our fall programming.
Join us for a visit from Santa Claus! We will have lots of treats, crafts, and music to celebrate the end of our fall programming.
This year's Young Historians group will be participating in the National History Day competition. The first round of competition will be held at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa; the second round will be held in Des Moines, Iowa; and the final round of competition will be in Washington, D.C. Hanna Howard, National History Day...
This group, designed for high school students, will teach the scientific method of historiography (the analysis and presentation of history) and develop students' understanding of the field of public history. Students will study American History topics but unlike a traditional educational setting, students will not use text books, but instead will read scholarly articles and...
Mapping and navigation are skills which were critical to the survival of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Without the ability to navigate, the explorers would have been hopelessly lost in the hundreds of thousands of acres of western North America - and without the ability to make maps, future settlers would not have been able...
We will launch our new Lewis and Clark Kids' Club with a trip to Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on Saturday, April 20th. Students will receive a tour of Arbor Day Farm (yes, that Arbor Day), receive a short lesson on the importance of bees and pollination, roam and climb in the Arbor...
After completing this lesson, students will be able to define an essential element; compare and contrast the essential nutrient requirements of plants and humans; explain why plants cannot use elemental nitrogen found in the atmosphere; and identify the sources for each essential nutrient needed by plants.
After this lesson, students will be able to list aspects of soil composition; appreciate that soils are living and dynamic; recognize that soils vary in composition; describe where nutrients in soils come from; recognize that plants take up water and nutrients from the soil; and recognize that growing crops can deplete agricultural soil of nutrients.
Lewis and Clark made a record of 178 plants and 122 animals previously unknown to European Americans. How did they know what to call things, or whether a plant they saw in early April would eventually have flowers? How did they know if a beaver was more closely related to a squirrel or a cat?...
After completing this lesson, students will be able to recognize that plants remove nutrients from the soil; explain the roles of diffusion and active transport in moving nutrients from the soil to the plant; and relate the root and vascular systems of the plant to the human circulatory system.
After completing this lesson, students will be able to recognize that plants, like people, require essential nutrients to be present in the right amounts in order to be healthy; use reference materials to diagnose plant nutrient deficiencies; define fertilizer as a type of "food" for plants; and appreciate that fertilizers are used to replenish nutrients in agricultural soils.
The second field trip in our Lewis and Clark Kids' Club series will be a trip to the National Music Museum in Vermillion, and Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Students will receive a tour of the National Music Museum in Vermillion, eat a picnic lunch at a Vermillion...