Choosing Classes There are two different strategies used in choosing classes for your students. The first strategy focuses on a thematic experience. Choose a category below and pick the majority of your classes from within that theme. OR, the second strategy, which we highly recommend, focuses on a more well-rounded experience. This involves choosing classes from a variety of themes to give your students a diverse learning experience. History and the Environment
History and the Environment is a thematic program option available September through April that combines the residential environmental education experience with natural and cultural history. The Audubon Center, the North West Company Fur Post, and the Hinckley Fire Museum collaborate to offer this program. North West Company Fur Post is a reconstruction of an 1804 trading post located on the Snake River 3 miles west of Pine City, MN. Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society since 1968, the site’s interpretive program focuses on fur trade era history and Ojibwa life ways. Costumed interpreters reenact fur post life and lead students in activities such as voyageur games, journal writing, and sewing a pouch. Schools must provide transportation to the site. Hinckley Fire Museum is located in Hinckley, MN, in the old St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Depot. The depot was built immediately after the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894, which destroyed the town of Hinckley and other area communities. Today the depot houses the museum and tells the story of the fire, as well as interpreting logging, agriculture, and the world of 1894. The education program at the museum includes a video about the Hinckley fire, a guided tour of the museum, and a lesson entitled TIMMMBERRR! that explores the colorful logging history of the Hinckley area during the late nineteenth century. Schools must provide transportation to the museum. The History
and the Environment is a package. If you wish to register for the program,
you must plan to visit all of the sites. Your scheduling request must
be in to the Center eight weeks before the date of your program. [Contents]
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