2012 Foundation Summer Camps

Day camps are sponsored by The Falls of the Ohio Foundation and State Park. To register for one of the day camps, email dani@fallsoftheohio.org or call (812) 283-4999.

Young Explorer Day Camps
June 11 - 15, July 9 – 13, and July 23 - 27. Call 812-283-4999 for more information. Cost is $100 per child for five, $80 for four, half-day sessions.

Campers explore the different outside habitats found at the Falls of the Ohio State Park, as well as the exhibits inside the Interpretive Center. Students learn about science and history, including fossils, nature, native people, plants, aquatic life, and more through hands-on education activities. Grades 4-6 attend in the mornings from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and grades 1-3 attend in the afternoons from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Examining a Devonian Eridophyllum colonial coral on the fossil bed

Teen Archaeologist Camp June 28 - 30 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Cost is $100 - limited to 10 children This "career camp" is for children ages 11-15 who will explore the work of an archaeologist. Participants will discover how archaeologists learn about past cultures and societies by studying human artifacts left by these earlier peoples.

                     Participants wash their discoveries at a dig.

Young Paleontologist Camp July 17 - 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (8:30 to 3:30 if high temperature exceeds 90 degrees) Cost is $100 - limited to 10 children This "career camp" is for children fascinated with fossils who will examine the life and live the life of a paleontologist. Participants age 10 -16 will discover how paleontologists learn about the history of life on Earth. by studying fossils (the remains or traces of organisms such as plants and animals that lived in the past). Two off-site collecting trips are scheduled and a parent or guardian presence is required.

Collecting Upper Ordovician colonial corals on an outcrop. Corals look

like lumps sticking out at the upper part of the rock exposure.

Some 2011 Camp Photos

Young Paleontologist Camp

           Collecting fossils and geodes on an outcrop.             Camper holds a nearly whole trilobite found

                                                                                     at an outcrop in Spencer Co., KY. (Lucky dad!)

Teen Archaeologist Camp

     Camper demonstrates a hoe in the prehistoric style.           Participant makes a small clay pot.

Day camps are sponsored by The Falls of the Ohio Foundation and State Park. To register for one of the day camps, email dani@fallsoftheohio.org or call (812) 283-4999.

Updated January 26, 2012