Crowder District Park

A variety of recreational and educational activities are available at this county park in Apex, North Carolina.

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• Animal Diversity Web An online database containing information about thousands of different animals and includes virtual reality movies, images, diagrams, photographs, and sounds of many of the creatures.
• BioKIDS: Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species Learn about critters in your area and the signs that they leave behind such as tracks, bite or chew marks, and things they build.
• Stormwater Pollution Why should the public care about stormwater pollution? 55% of North Carolina’s citizens get their drinking water from a surface water source. Learn about what can be done to prevent polluted runoff.
• EPA Explorers Club Uses multimedia games, sourcebooks, and many other resources to teach students and teachers about conservation, ecosystems, recycling, air pollution, water pollution, human health, plants, and animals.
• Lesson plan: Ecosystem problem solving Students will apply their knowledge of ecosystems and the interdependence of plants and animals to creatively solve problems.
• Lesson plan: Nature's Checks and Balances This Unit introduces students to several essential understandings. They will learn that plants and animals depend on one another for survival and organisms interact within nature to create a balance. They will also learn that humans can influence and manipulate nature.
• Lesson plan: The life cycle of a seed This lesson integrates science into the language arts block. Students will read about plant life cycle events and then write their own books about the life cycle of a plant.

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• Durant Nature Park: Enjoy a visit to this 237-acre City of Raleigh park and discover the flora and fauna of the area.
• Lake Crabtree County Park: This park includes wetland areas, a floodplain forest, and various creeks. Environmental programs for school groups are available.
• Jockey's Ridge State Park: Experience a world of the shifting sands and a barren, desert environment as well as an estuarine environment of the tidal waters of the Roanoke Sound at Jockey's Ridge State Park in Nags Head, North Carolina.

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• Learn more about North Carolina, Wake County, biology, environmental science, habitats, nature, parks, and science.

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Take your students to Crowder District Park for an environmental education program offered by Wake County. Park naturalists offer interpretive, hands-on environmental programs covering a variety of subjects. For those who cannot visit the park, they will come out to the classroom to deliver an environmental lesson. The park also has a Discovery Box program. “Discovery boxes are packaged lessons available to teachers and parents that can be performed without a park educator. Each box contains background information as well as instructions on how to perform the lesson.” Topics include water pollution, plants and animals, camouflage, seeds, birds, and hunting.

For more information regarding environmental education, including scheduling programs, contact the park office at 919-662-2850.

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