NEW at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve: Education Packs for Outdoor Adventures

KVR instructors Barb Sydnor and Julie Hoel have been hard at work creating adventure backpacks for children and families. We encourage you to check one out on your next visit to the Reserve. These education packs offer opportunities for deeper engagement with natural features and experiences, and they've been created with fun and learning in mind.

There are 3 preschool activity packs and one water critters pack for older children (4th-5th grade). The water critters pack is also suitable for younger children with adult help.

Packs will be available outside the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Visitor Center on weekdays from 8 am until 4:30 pm. Please use the sign out sheet provided by the packs.

Let us know how you are using the packs with photos and comments.

Pause

Today we pause and ask you to do so with us

in the name of the Black lives lost to police brutality in this nation,

in respect for the historic and systematic oppression endured for centuries by Indigenous people, Black people, and people of color here, and

in solidarity with the current struggle to shift our collective humanity.

We honor the protests of racial injustice, and we ask that you continue to learn about these truths we must hold self-evident in the face of so much unrest and the pandemic. 

We do not have a post to share this day to honor learning outside. We ask that you spend time instead exploring these resources by Black voices to learn and understand more about the ways that even being outside in this nation safely and in all the richness of those experiences is a privilege vital to all and yet still not accessible to all.

May we all join in the work of changing this.

It's the Little Things

The Urgent Need for Nature During and After COVID-19

Breaking Down Racial Hierarchy

Occupy Nature: Parks are for People

The Fierce Urgency of Nature

Resources via The Children and Nature Network