After School Programs


After School Programs
Fairbanks Soil and Water offers After School Programs at various schools in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. All our ASP programs are designed for 45 minute sessions, two days a week. Our lessons build on each other, so once students are placed in our program we request that they not be taken out for other activities. We also require a room that has access to water and preferably no carpeting.
Lesson plans are available if you want to offer the program yourself or would like to use the lesson plans for your classes. Just contact us at 907-479-1213 x 5 for more information.
First Quarter Offering
Forestry Exploration
Students will participate in hands-on exploration activities including insect collecting, tree identification, habitat exploration, owl pellets, and paper making. Some activities will take place outdoors.


Second Quarter Offering
Soil and Water
Students will participate in hands-on exploratory science activities including soil structure and development, composting worms, own pellets, water structure and properties, watersheds, H2O Olympics, homemade lava lamps, and marbleized paper.
Third Quarter Offering
Agriculture in the Classroom
Students will participate in hands-on agriculture education activities including butter making, local food taste testing, AK Grown agriculture products, food and culture traditions, understanding different Alaska farm animals, and an intro to beekeeping.


Fourth Quarter Offering
Gardening
Students will participate in hands-on gardening activities including seedling planting, plant biology, plant identification, soil development, ans mini greenhouse construction. Students will get to take home their plants. For the gardening program, we will need a place that either has windows or plant lights and space must be available for plants to remain at the school.