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Young Explorer Summer Day Camp 2011

Vancouver, British Columbia

Young Explorer Summer Day Camp 2011

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Send your child on an environmental and recreational adventure at Canada's oldest continually operating university botanical garden.

Young Explorers Summer Day Camp is a weeklong environmental and recreational adventure for children aged 7-11. The camp will create life-long connections with nature, wildlife, plants, science, and the environment through games, crafts and exploration in our 44.5 hectare (110 acres) Garden, the Greenheart Canopy Walkway, and the UBC campus.

 

Cost: $210/child per week ($200/child for week 5 which includes a stat holiday)

To accommodate as many children as possible we are limiting each child to a 2 week maximum per program this summer, for a total of 4 weeks maximum in the Young Explorers Summer Day Camp per child. 

 

Times: 9am to 4pm daily  

 


Early Morning Drop Off - pre-camp care is offered from 8am to 9am $6/day  

Late Pick up - post-camp care is offered from 4pm to 5pm $6/day

 

Excursions

As part of the summer camp itinerary, participants will be making half-day excursions to fun locations like Nitobe Memorial Garden, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Museum of Anthropology, the Pacific Museum of the Earth, UBC Farm, UBC Botanical Garden Nursery and the UBC Aquatic Centre Indoor Swimming Pool. Please note: all travel from UBC Botanical Garden to these locations will be by foot. An accredited and appropriate form of motor vehicle transportation will only be used, as required, in the case of an emergency.


Learning Experiences
July: Program 1 - People & The Environment
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Connecting with wildlife
• Plants & people
• Food Explorations
• Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt
• Greenheart Canopy Walkway Adventure

August: Program 2 - Gardening & Nature
• Plant Explorations
• Soil & Water Science
• Growing your own Garden
• Spectacular Seeds
• Harvest & Cook
• Greenheart Canopy Walkway Adventure

 

Where



UBC Botanical Garden
6804 SW Marine Drive
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada

Hosted By

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research



Canada's oldest continuously operating university botanic garden, UBC Botanical Garden was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist. The original mission of the garden was research into the native flora of British Columbia.

Over the past nine decades, the mission of UBC Botanical Garden has broadened to include research, conservation, teaching and public display of temperate plants from around the world, particularly Asian, alpine and native plants.

The UBC Centre for Plant Research is the research arm of the UBC Botanical Garden. With world-class research on topics including plant adaptation, evolution, genomics, plant physiology and biotic interactions, phytochemistry, plant biotechnology and plant breeding the University of British Columbia's reputation consistently ranks as one of the leading research institutions in North America.