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The Youth Food & Farm Forum engages youth in education and participation of sustainable farming. The event featured interactive sessions including vegan cooking, equity 101, seed saving, hog butchering, and holistic health through food. The event was attended by an extremely diverse group of youth, ages 13-23, from across Alabama. Read more...
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Our junior board is a diverse group of young professionals committed to raising support for conservation and trail projects across Central Alabama. Junior board members host our annual fundraising concert, Land Aid, and lead outreach and volunteer activities throughout the year. Read more...
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Gasp seeks to raise awareness and understanding of the health effects of air pollution on childhood health outcomes through our Clean Air, Healthy Kids initiative. GASP offers classroom presentations, education activities, and workshops for educators. Read more...
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Students learn hands-on food education that connects students to food, farming, and the culinary arts through standards-based, cross-curricular lessons at one of the seven Jones Valley Teaching Farms Read more...
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Designed to inspire a life-long love of learning, McWane Science Center has welcomed millions of visitors since opening its doors in 1998. Explorers – from ages 1 to 100 – flock year-round to see, to hear, to touch, and to experience the wonder of science in one of the South’s most unique venues. Read more...
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The Birmingham Zoo makes a great partner in education for schools and educators offering exciting learning programs and experiences for all ages and grades in our 122 acre classroom. Students have access to hundreds of animals, including different species, and endangered species from six continents. Read more...
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Zoo Camps at the Birmingham Zoo are educational and encourage active learning through games, age-appropriate, hands-on science, animal encounters, and nature play! Rich in STEM-based explorations, these camps engage the natural curiosity of a child and allow ample opportunity to practice critical emerging science skills. Learning has never been so WILD! Read more...
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Here is your chance to work behind the scenes with a real ZooKeeper and discover this rich and rewarding career. You will spend the day working alongside a keeper, experiencing how to prepare animal diets, clean up, and interact with the animals. Learn about animal husbandry techniques and much more about the inner workings of the Birmingham Zoo. Read more...
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At Ruffner Mountain, we pride ourselves in offering fields trips that are fun, hands-on and relevant. Pre-k – 12th grade students learn concepts across all disciplines by exploring the trails found within our 1,000 acre Nature Preserve. Students also have the opportunity to learn from some of our native animal ambassadors that live in our Nature Center. Read more...
