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Great River Road Learning & Visitor Center @ Freedom Park, Prescott, WI
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The Learning Center offers programs on biodiversity and environmental sustainability related to the Mississippi River watershed. Our classes are taught by experienced naturalists and/or biologists who engage students in age-appropriate activities exploring the environmental issues facing this region and the use of the mighty Mississippi River. Our naturalists work with students in small, in-depth activities designed to engage them directly with environmental learning.
- To explore the Mississippi River as an environmental resource of national significance.
- To examine the interaction between people and the environment.
- To understand the unique watershed at the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers
Grades K-1: What is a River?
Through involving, hands on activities, explore the creatures that call the Mississippi River home. Discover what life needs to survive in this mighty river.
Grade 2: Wings over the Mississippi.
Through games and authentic experiences, find out all about birds: why they migrate, what adaptations they use to find food and what bird behavior means.
Grade 3: Life in the Mississippi.
Examine how the adaptations of fish, clams and other animals help them survive in their specific habitats. Through the use art, science and games students will gain knowledge of river life.
Grade 4: People and the Mississippi River.
The past becomes the present on the Mississippi, seek out how the river provided life for not only a rich variety of animals, but people as well. Understand about the days when the river was the highway for exploration and trade. We will focus on the fur trade and the Dakota people.
Grades 5-8: Mississippi River Watershed.
Take an incredible journey to realize the value of the water cycle, learn what a watershed consists of and how human actions can be both positive and negative for the river. We will use an Enviroscape model to define both point and non-point pollution.
Grades 5-8: Mississippi River at Work and Play.
The "lazy river" is a working river. From past to present explore how travel, industry, transportation and recreation revolve around the river. Discuss how just one river can do it all, or can it.
The GRRVLC has a Naturalist available to travel to local schools and provide on site programs. Contact the Center for more details.