Middle schoolers travel to Eagle River for workshop
Students from Fox River Middle School, Waterford, recently attended a 3-day educational workshop at Trees For Tomorrow, located in Eagle River and surrounded by forested private and public lands and the world’s largest freshwater chain, consisting of 28 lakes.
The classes offered at a Trees For Tomorrow workshop give students the opportunity to meet curriculum requirements while receiving hands-on learning in an outdoor environment.
Some of the subjects the eighth-grade students from Fox River studied include: human survival skills, tree identification, winter lake ecology, wilderness investigation, logging history, and wildlife biology. More than 50 courses are available, allowing teachers to customize a workshop to best meet the needs of their students.
Fox River teacher Kevin Brodzik shared these thoughts about the Trees For Tomorrow experience:
“Trees For Tomorrow was a wonderful experience for our students. They learned survival skills, tree identification, and snow-shoed in wilderness areas.
“Our students were outside the majority of the day, experiencing nature at winter’s best. Black-capped chickadees ate from their hands. Students were also treated to a class about owls, viewing two live owls. Another class was all about wolves. When out on the trails, students looked for tracks, and found many deer tracks.”
Trees For Tomorrow has been around since 1944. It was originally founded by Wisconsin paper companies in order to provide a local, self-sustaining wood supply. As wood supplies became more abundant, Trees For Tomorrow redirected its focus to education on the sustainability of natural resources.
As a nonprofit school, Trees For Tomorrow does not receive any state or federal funding, so many donors help support students who participate in this educational experience. The students from Fox River Middle School received support from the Tara Lila, LLC and George Stepien.
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