Frost Centre Institute - Environmental Seminars for Ontario Schools


	Fee-based weekday programs

	Free weekend seminars

FEE-BASED WEEKDAY PROGRAMS

The Frost Centre Institute offers a number of environmental and outdoor education programs for elementary and secondary school student groups. These programs are presented throughout the school year and can be selected to form a curriculum that can be as short as one day or as long as 5 days. The programs are tailored for each season and age group.

Programs currently available include:

	Spring	Winter	Fall
GPS Orienteering	•	•	•
Discovering the Night	•		•
Troubled Water	•		•
Ecohike	•	•	•
Olympics	•	•	•
The Budding Garden	•		•
Wetland Ecosystems	•		•
Aquatic Macro Sampling	•		•
A Cleaner World	•	•	•
Eco-Canoe	•		•
Geological Find	•	•	•
Wilderness Survival	•	•	•
Invertebrates	•		•
Aquatic Macro Ecosystems	•		•
Surviving the Urban Sprawl	•	•	•
Forest Environmental Assessment		•
Wood Energy		•
Woods in Winter		•
Deer Ecology		•
Predator/Prey Relationship		•
Lakes in Winter		•

For any inquiries regarding the content of these programs, rates and availability, please call our office at (705) 766-0810. Office hours are 9:00AM to 4:30PM, Monday to Friday.

FREE WEEKEND SEMINARS

The Frost Centre Institute will offer free weekend programs focused on Environmental Science. The 2-day sessions will be offered throughout the school year from October to mid-June. The first session is scheduled for October 2008. This program will only be available to primary and secondary schools in public and separate school boards in Ontario . Enrollment information packages will be sent to all school boards in Ontario .

The Frost Centre Institute will provide program instruction, meals and accommodation free-of-charge to all participating students as well as to supervisory personnel ( teachers and/or parents) who accompany them. The schools will be responsible for providing bus transportation. However, FCI is working with corporate sponsors who may be willing to help cover transportation costs.

Participating groups will be expected to board their buses at Noon on Friday and arrive at the Frost Centre Institute by mid-afternoon. They will board their return buses at 4:00pm on Sunday, giving them a full 2 days at the Centre. Groups that travel for 4 hours or more to reach the Centre will board their return buses on Monday morning.

Each session will include lab and field components and will be described in detail in the information packages that will be distributed to the school boards.