🌿 Nature Discovery Lab

A Classroom Nature Center Experience

Bring the hands-on learning of a nature center directly into your school!

Nature Discovery Lab is a guided, interactive program designed for school class visits. This experience can be scheduled as a single classroom lesson or as part of a multi-class rotation day, making it ideal for individual science blocks, enrichment days, and school-wide STEM events.

Students explore non-living, ethically sourced, museum-quality animal artifacts while practicing the same observation and inquiry skills used by scientists and naturalists.

How the Program Works

Nature Discovery Lab is flexible and can be scheduled in two formats:

✔️ Single Classroom Experience
One class participates in a full, in-depth investigation focused on a specific lab theme.

✔️ Rotation-Style Experience
Multiple classes rotate through the Nature Discovery Lab in shorter sessions, allowing schools to reach more students in a single day.

Program Length & Pricing

Single Classroom Visit: 45–60 minutes
• $150 per classroom

Rotation Day Options: 30-minute rotations

Half-Day Rotation (up to 3 hours)
• Up to 6 classes
• $325

Full-Day Rotation (up to 6 hours)
• Up to 12 classes
• $575

Additional classrooms may be added to rotation days with a custom quote, pending schedule availability.

What Students Will Explore

  • Real & replica skulls, bones, shells, fossils, and preserved specimens

  • Animal skins, sheds, and other scientific biofacts

  • Animal tracks using realistic molds

  • Magnifying tools and guided investigation prompts

Students are encouraged to touch, observe, ask questions, and think like scientists throughout the lab.

Choose Your Lab Focus

Schools may select one or more themed investigations:

  • Mystery Skulls Lab

  • Animal Tracks & Traces Lab

  • Fossil Detectives

  • Predator vs Prey

  • Animal Coverings & Adaptations

Designed for Schools

  • Ideal for classrooms, libraries, or multipurpose rooms

  • Works well for science blocks, enrichment days, and STEM events

  • No live animals required

  • Structured and teacher-friendly

Curriculum Connections

Nature Discovery Lab supports:

  • Life Science and Environmental Science concepts

  • Scientific observation, comparison, and inquiry

  • Adaptations and evidence-based reasoning

Pairing Option

Nature Discovery Lab may be scheduled on its own or paired with a live animal program to give students a deeper look at how animals are studied both in museums and in the field.

Contact Tanee at (985) 956-2136 or by email natureonthegeaux@gmail.com with questions.

No Travel Fee: St. Tammany, Orleans, Upper Jefferson, Tangipahoa, St. Bernard; and MS counties: Harrison, Pearl River, Hancock.

$25 travel fee for the following parishes/counties: Upper Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Livingston, Washington, Stone, Lamar, & Jackson County

$30 travel fee for: Ascension, East Baton Rouge parishes

Travel fees are paid in addition to program fees and are to offset additional vehicle costs.