Our friends and generous sponsors:
The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County
The Denver Foundation
S.L. Gimbel Foundation

SCFD

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Mentor Graphics Foundation
Roche Colorado

Outreach Programs

Tracking Colorado’s Wildlife - Track Colorado’s amazing animals! Learn to identify signs of the animals that share our woods, streams and meadows. Investigate the lives of mammals such as bear, elk and beaver through hands-on interaction with pelts, skulls and tracks.

Traveling Arthropod Zoo -The very popular Arthropod Zoo is available to visit your classroom! Meet Vinney the Scorpion, Rapunzel the rose-hair tarantula, and more. Observe these fascinating creatures up close. For an outdoor element to this program, we will take your class to a nearby stream or pond to look for and observe aquatic macroinvertebrates.
NEW! Plants and Pollination – What are the parts of plants?  Who are the pollinators?  Explore these questions as you learn about the life cycles of plants and their pollinators, and discover the many ways we use plants every day.
NEW! Fabulous Food Chains and Wonderful Webs – Investigate the interactions between Earth’s organisms.  Create your own food chains and webs to explore the flow of energy from the sun all of Earth’s creatures–including you!
NEW! Spaceship Earth - Take a ride on Spaceship Earth to explore the cycles of air, water and energy on our planet.  Create your own living Earth Dome to take home.  Gain perspective on our role in the universe.  (Materials fee may apply.)Â
NEW! Underground Investigations – Dig into the amazing world of a vermicompost bin!  Examine the anatomy of our worms, the “Red Wigglers,” and their role as decomposers.  use a microscope to meet other inhabitants and explore their interactions.

A Classroom Without Walls – Mud Lake Nature Discovery Program – Come to Mud Lake near Nederland for a unique outdoor adventure! Allow your class to experience the tranquility of a mountain lake, helping cultivate your students appreciation of nature.

Aquatic Studies Rocky Mountain Ecosystems
Edible and Medicinal Plants Tracking
Entomology Tree / Plant Identification
Leave No Trace Ethic Watershed Awareness
Ornithology Wilderness Survival
Vermicomposting Winter Ecology / Snowshoeing
Primitive Skills Or let us tailor your field trip to what you are studying!

Outreach Programs Include:

  • Elements that meet state Science, Language Arts, Math & Social Studies academic content standards.
  • A design that compliments both BVSD and state curriculum.
  • Teachers with strong backgrounds in environmental education.

What people are saying about Wild Bear’s Outreach Programs

“This was a great extension of our learning, and (Wild Bear) did a wonderful job keeping us on track and teaching all sorts of new stuff.” – Irene Pritsak, teacher