GROUP PROGRAMS

We offer customized nature programs for groups of all kinds.
Plan an unforgettable day of learning, team building, and fun for homeschool crew, birthday party, scout group, senior center, corporate retreat, staff, friends, or family.

Our Wild Bear group programs include:

  • Games, activities, and learning based on the environment around us

  • A focus around: connection and exploration with nature, art, social emotional learning, body movement, mindfulness, and/or environmental advocacy.

  • Professional instructors with backgrounds in environmental education.

PRICING:

  • $150/hr for up to 30 people

  • Groups over 30: $5/student (upwards of 30)

  • Travel Fees: $0.50/mile if traveling to a location over 40 miles round trip.

Interested in booking a group program?

GROUP PROGRAM OFFERINGS/IDEAS

  • Forest Ecology and Tree Communication

  • Explore the role fire plays in forest ecosystems

  • Species survival strategies

  • Survival strategies for adapting to changing weather conditions. This program is offered October - January.

  • Open your eyes to all that changes in our environment as we lap around the sun.

  • Learn our animal tracks and signs that they've been here, even if you can't see them.

    Track Colorado’s amazing animals! Learn to identify signs that tell the story of the animals that share our woods, streams, and meadows. Investigate the pelts, skulls, and tracks of animals such as bears, elks, and beavers.

  • Exploration of Montane and Wetland ecosystems.

    This program provides an outdoor classroom in which children can directly observe organisms and their relationships to each other and their environment. Hands on activities include an eco-scavenger hunt and aquatic collection/observation workshop that provides insight into the ecological health of Mud Lake.

  • Investigate how energy moves through Earth’s organisms

    Join us as we explore how organisms interacts, how wolves changed rivers, and then create your own own artistic examples of food webs.

  • Climate scientists teach about snowpack and our watershed

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    Schedule your group for a snowshoe trek through the forests of the Colorado Rocky Mountains! Climate scientists join us to teach about snowpack, study snow science, winter ecology and our local watershed. By utilizing state of the art snow science equipment, we will gain knowledge to help us to protect these beautiful mountains. By investigating animal tracks, we learn the stories of animals that live in a winter montane ecosystem.

    Wild Bear Nature Center partners with Winter Wildlands Alliance to deliver SnowSchool—a winter ecology field trip on snowshoes! SnowSchool is offered in Boulder and Gilpin counties.

  • Seasonal focus on plant life, flowers, and pollinators

    Explore parts of the plants and their pollinators as you learn about the life cycle of plants. Let’s discover the many ways we use plants and appreciate the importance of their pollinators.

  • Get ready for a buzzin' good time as we explore the amazing world of bugs in our Arthropod Zoo Program. Kids will learn all about bug parts, from shiny exoskeletons to wiggly antennae, and discover the important jobs these critters have in our world. Our goal is to make bugs cool and help everyone feel comfy around these awesome little friends! Let's have a buggy blast together! This is a great program for us to bring to your classroom!

  • Learn all about the owls of Boulder county

  • Learn about our wild neighbors