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Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Sergeant Floyd Tri-State Chapter Spring Meeting

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

The Spring Meeting for the Sergeant Floyd Tri-State Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation will take place on Sunday, April 14, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Discovery Gallery (classroom) on the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center side of the building. The meeting will...

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Event Series Lewis and Clark Kids’ Club

Lewis and Clark Kids’ Club: Arbor Day Farm

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

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...

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Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

In Search of Essential Nutrients

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

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.

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Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

Properties of Soils

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

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.

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Event Series Percy’s Pals

Percy’s Pals: Plant & Animal Classification

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

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?...

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Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

Plant-Soil Interactions

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

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.

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Event Series Growers’ Academy and Community Garden

Plant Nutrient Deficiencies

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

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.

Free
Event Series Lewis and Clark Kids’ Club

Lewis and Clark Kids’ Club: National Music Museum and Washington Pavilion

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center 900 Larsen Park Road, Sioux City, IA, United States

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...