| Date/Time: | Sunday, November 3, 9 am – 2 pm |
| Meet at: | Oasis Visitor Center, 74485 National Park Dr., Twentynine Palms, CA 92277 |
| Fee: | $25 JTNPA/PINE member, $35 non member |
| Instructor: | Pat Flanagan, naturalist, instructor |
| Hike Level: | Easy |
Enhance your trip to Joshua Tree National Park with a field investigation for kids. A quest is about exploration while using observation, critical thinking, and investigative skills. Armed with Google Earth maps, student teams follow clues to unlock mysteries of the Mojave Desert and complete activities to explore plant and animal adaptations and distributions within a designated study site. Ages of old growth plant life in this study site will astonish you!
Before the class, you can sharpen your bird observation skills at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: www.allaboutbirds.org/labs and then join in the Great Back Yard Bird Count www.birdsource.org/gbbc
If you are a member of JTNPA/PINE you will get a $10 discount off every Desert Institute class. Please enter the registrants name exactly as it appears in our membership database. If you are not a member you can become one here. Simply add membership to the cart and choose the discounted class in the options above.
Each participant is required to bring a signed Desert-Institute-Participant-Agreement.pdf to the class. Download it here.
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| Additional Participants | Enhance your trip to Joshua Tree National Park with a field investigation for kids. A quest is about exploration while using observation, critical thinking, and investigative skills. Armed with Google Earth maps, student teams follow clues to unlock mysteries of the Mojave Desert and complete activities to explore plant and animal adaptations and distributions within a designated study site. Ages of old growth plant life in this study site will astonish you! |