GSP – Maples 2025

GUIDED SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL GROUPS

Winter Offerings

Our classroom is the great outdoors!  Actively engage your entire class in the discovery process through hands-on experiences and minds-on investigation in nature at Five Rivers.  Learn more through this Outdoor Classroom Brochure and read more below.  Join us!

PLEASE NOTE:  There is a 60 student maximum per half day visit (3 hour or less visit). If you have 61 or more students, you will need to either visit for 5 hours in one day, or divide your group and visit over two days.

MARVELOUS MAPLES (March Only)

WHAT: Students use all five senses to investigate sap dripping from trees, smell sap boiling in an evaporator, and taste the sweet result!

WHO & HOW LONG:  Pre-K to Grade 2 for a 60 minute outdoor lesson

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ADVANCED MAPLES (March Only)

WHAT: Students investigate roots, leaves and sap before playing Grow A Tree to construct a better understanding of photosynthesis. Outside in the woodlot, students taste sap flowing from a maple tree before heading to the Sugar Shack to link sap to syrup via the process of evaporation and, yes, a final taste.

WHO & HOW LONG:  Grade 3-7 for a 2 hour outdoor lesson

FIELD GROUPS & FEES FOR ALL PROGRAMS:   See Outdoor Classroom Brochure for fee schedule and Field Group size, or clink on the links below: