EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Two young boys are focused on a building a beaver dam. This is an activity that helps kids understand how beavers are like engineers. A great STEM activity for kids!
Two young boys are focused on a building a beaver dam. This is an activity that helps kids understand how beavers are like engineers. A great STEM activity for kids!

Engaging Education
Programs

Our education programs offer engaging, hands-on learning experiences designed to connect people of all ages with the wildlife of Northern Michigan. We provide wildlife education programs in Traverse City, MI and surrounding communities, with opportunities to book programs for schools, libraries, homeschool groups, and community events. Through STEM-based activities aligned with learning standards, participants explore topics like animal behavior, habitats, and conservation using biofacts, interactive materials, and real-world scenarios.

Programs are customizable to meet a variety of ages and learning goals, whether delivered as structured lessons or open, exploratory experiences. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, think critically, and build a deeper connection to the natural world around them.

A young boy and an older woman smiling together as the boy paints on a small object, likely a craft project, during a daytime indoor activity.

Sense of Nature

Use your senses to uncover clues and identify which wild mammal is which in this exciting, hands-on educational experience.

A young girl wearing a colorful headband and beads is reaching out to touch shaped white animal track replica on a table during an educational event, with other children in the background.

Outreach Table

Meet our educators, dive into interactive activities, and discover fun bio-facts about the wildlife that calls our region home.

A classroom lesson with students sitting at desks, a teacher standing and pointing at a large projected image of a eastern bluebird, with classroom materials and notes on the whiteboard and walls.

Science Lectures

Learn from our rehabilitators, biologists, and educators about the incredible biodiversity of the region and how to preserve it.

A young girl with blue eyes and a big smile holding a handmade craft opossum made from a toilet paper roll, in a library.
Two women hosting an educational program for kids teaching about what opossums eat. There is a puppet in the hands of one and a lunch box in the hands of the other. The kids are smiling and having a great time.

Interested in hosting a program? Contact us today!