Upcoming Events
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Calling all elementary students! Pick up a checklist in the Resource Center then search the prairie for signs of fairies and the plants that they are "guarding." Bring your completed checklist to the BFEC office for a reward. Available weekday mornings through Aug. 30.
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Pop into the BFEC Resource Center and check out our interactive displays in the large and small classrooms. Suitable for early elementary-aged children.
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Join us for a garden exploration day: spend time in the gardens and prairie discovering native plant species and asking questions about how pollinators provide us with many of the foods we eat.
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Use your lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class.
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Did you know that leaves eat and breathe? They even sweat! We will use microscopes and hands-on experiments to explore the processes of transpiration and photosynthesis. We will also start a field notebook that everyone will take home. This program is for grades 3 - 6.
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Use your lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class.
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Cool down in the Kokosing River and discover the critters that live there.
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Cutleaf Toothwort, Trout Lily, Golden Alexander, Enchanter’s Nightshade, Miami Mist, Corn Salad. What do these names have in common? They are just some of the wildflowers that can be found in Knox County. Using photographs, Miriam Dean-Otting will guide us through spring, summer and fall.
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Use your lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class.
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Why is the sky blue? How do rainbows form? Can you get a rainbow on Mars? In this program for grades 3 - 6, we will make our own rainbows and observe how and why we see such vibrant colors in our environment. Â
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Use your lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class.
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Dr. Allan Bazzoli, M.D. will offer the sounds of eighteen Himalayan singing bowls combined with harmonic chants from different cultures to immerse you in a very relaxing, transcendent experience of vibration and sound.
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Dr. Allan Bazzoli, M.D., will offer the sounds of eighteen Himalayan singing bowls combined with harmonic chants from different cultures to immerse you in a very relaxing, transcendent experience of vibration and sound.
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Use your lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class.
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Experience the BFEC's take on the urban sketchers movement (on-location drawing, usually in urban settings). This is the perfect class to get started or fine-tune your Plein Air (in the open air) painting skills. Materials are provided.
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Join us for the Brown Family Environmental Center's take on the urban sketchers movement (on-location drawing, usually in urban settings).
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Rocks are all around us. Learn about the formation of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, and about gemstones, fossils and lava at this program for grades 3 - 6.
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Use your lunch break to de-stress with an outdoor yoga class.
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Learn about the Paleolithic peoples who lived in Knox County. Some of the most important cultures of prehistory were formed and reached their apogees in Ohio.
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Learn about the Paleolithic peoples who lived in Knox County. Some of the most important cultures of prehistory were formed and reached their apogees in Ohio.