Youth & Families

Bringing student-centered inquiry into the classroom is an important pa

Urban Ecology is the story of how the UEC operations and programming began in a double-wide trailer at Riverside Park, Milwaukee, to expand to three elegant LEED-certified Urban Ecology Centers annually serving more than 60 schools and 200,000 children, families, and adults of all ages.

Sometimes the best lessons are the hardest-fought ones. When the students of Fox River Academy, an environmentally focused charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, identified a section of Pierce Park, adjacent to the school grounds, as an area they wanted to restore, they ran up against a severe physical challenge and some unexpected social challenges.

FIELD Edventures offers professional learning opportunitie

Engaging the rock-skipping, frog-catching spirit that lives in each of us! We connect with educators to explore the outdoors, foster inquiry, and engage learn

Place-based Outdoor InquiryField Edventures uses a place-based outdoor inquiry approach to learning, which couples the principles of place-based education with the use