Environmental Education (EE)
Our EE program provides students with unique opportunities to gain real-world experiences, learn about the natural world, engage in environmental service, bond with classmates, develop independence, and experience group-learning situations. These experiences are accomplished by single field days, lab workdays, and extended overnight field trips. The EE program experiences build on each other starting at Primary all the way through to Advanced School. Read about the latest overnight trips here.
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The 3 Pillars of EE
Science
Exposing students to the skills of scientific inquiry and problem solving by weaving science content into field experiences
Community
Using experiential learning to expose students to the real world and real people
Building independence and classroom unity
Providing opportunities for small group and whole group collaborative learning experiences
Natural World
Fostering awareness of the environment
Providing opportunities for students to have a variety of experiences in nature
Engaging students in a new and different perspectives on human interactions with the world around them
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Places Students Have Traveled on EE Trips Over the Last 10 Years
Colorado
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center
- Lair O’ the Bear Park, Morrison
- Sustainable Settings, Carbondale
- Keystone Science School, Keystone
- Glenwood Springs
- Greeley
- La Foret
- Manitou Cliff Dwellings, Colorado Springs
- Garden of the Gods Park
- Pawnee National Grasslands, Weld County
- Paonia
- Tomahawk Ranch
- Buena Vista
- Great Sand Dunes National Park
- Telluride
- Mission: Wolf, Westcliffe
- Silverton
- San Luis Valley
- Steamboat Springs
- Grand Lake
- Aspen
- Breckenridge
- Leadville
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Platte River Fort, Greeley
- Colorado National Monument
- Grand Junction
- Fort Collins
- Jamestown/Goldhill (Cottonwood Institute)
- San Juan River- Wild Rivers Expeditions
- Granby
- Crested Butte
- Gunnison
- Pueblo (Pueblo Mountain Park)
- Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center
- Snow Mountain Ranch, Winterpark
- Salida
- Georgetown
- Mount Evans
- Buckhorn Camp
- Guidestone - Hutchinson Homestead
- Plains Conservation Center, Aurora, CO
Regional
- Arches National Park, Moab, UT
- Goblin Valley State Park, Capitol Reef, UT
- Jackson Hole, WY
- Canyonlands National Park, Colorado River
- Grand Teton National Park, WY
- Dinosaur National Monument, Jensen, UT
- Taos, NM
- Yellowstone National Park
- Bandelier and Los Alamos, NM
- Cripple Creek, Florissant Fossil Beds, NM
- Flaming Gorge/Green River, UT
- Ft. Laramie and Casper, Wyoming
- White Sands National Park/Santa Fe, NM
- Albuquerque, NM
- Bears Ears National Monument, UT
National
- Scottsbluff, NE
- Fort Robinson State Park, NE
- Yosemite National Park, CA
- Black Hills, SD
- Austin, South Padre Island, TX
- Washington, DC
- Chesapeake Bay, VA
- Oahu, Hawaii
- The Big Island, Hawaii
- Seattle, WA
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Olympic National Park, WA
- Golden Gate Canyon State Park, CA
- Redwoods and San Francisco, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Oklahoma: Tall Grass Prairie, Spiro Mounds, Runestone
- Alaska (Anchorage, Seward, Denali National Park)
- Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, CA
- New Orleans, LA
- Florida Everglades and Key West
- New York City, NY
- White Mountains, NH
- Boston, MA
- Hurricane Island, ME
- Nashville, TN
- Asheville, Charleston, NC
- Las Vegas, NV
- Big Bear Lake, CA
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