Nature Adventures - Registration - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Ocean Superpowers - AM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Calling all super marine scientists! Swim as fast as a shark, hide like a halibut, and snap like a pistol shrimp. Use your super senses and compare them to animals with excellent detection skills. Study the marine world as you investigate how ocean superstar animals adapt, survive, and thrive in the ocean.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Ocean Superpowers - PM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Calling all super marine scientists! Swim as fast as a shark, hide like a halibut, and snap like a pistol shrimp. Use your super senses and compare them to animals with excellent detection skills. Study the marine world as you investigate how ocean superstar animals adapt, survive, and thrive in the ocean.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Dino Hunters - AM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Become a paleontologist and explore the world of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Examine “dinosaur bones” to piece together a skeleton, excavate fossils, and investigate clues to discover how dinosaurs once lived. Step outside into your yard and marvel at dinosaurs' modern descendants: birds!
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Dino Hunters - PM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Become a paleontologist and explore the world of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Examine “dinosaur bones” to piece together a skeleton, excavate fossils, and investigate clues to discover how dinosaurs once lived. Step outside into your yard and marvel at dinosaurs' modern descendants: birds!
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Pebbles and Boulders - AM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Put on your hard hat and embark on the life of a geologist! Engage in hands-on experiments to learn how mountains and valleys form and how rocks change form. Build geology models. Explore rocks and start your collection.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Pebbles and Boulders - PM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Put on your hard hat and embark on the life of a geologist! Engage in hands-on experiments to learn how mountains and valleys form and how rocks change form. Build geology models. Explore rocks and start your collection.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Mini Beasts and Creepy Crawlies - AM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

What mysteries are buried in our backyards? Time to get dirty and find out! Explore how to see like a bee, sing like a cricket, and eat like a butterfly. Go bug-hunting in your backyard, investigate what we find.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Mini Beasts and Creepy Crawlies - PM Session

Ages 4-6, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

What mysteries are buried in our backyards? Time to get dirty and find out! Explore how to see like a bee, sing like a cricket, and eat like a butterfly. Go bug-hunting in your backyard, investigate what we find.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Endangered Creatures - AM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Explore the wonders of some marvelous marine animals with activities, crafts, games and investigations. Take a close look at what it takes to be a whale, a sea otter, a polar bear, an abalone, and a sea turtle. Play games to learn about special abilities for thriving and surviving in the open ocean. Create, build, and make models of animals.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Endangered Creatures - PM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Explore the wonders of some marvelous marine animals with activities, crafts, games and investigations. Take a close look at what it takes to be a whale, a sea otter, a polar bear, an abalone, and a sea turtle. Play games to learn about special abilities for thriving and surviving in the open ocean. Create, build, and make models of animals.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Life of Bugs - AM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Discover the diverse world of insects and bugs. Turn over a rock and dig in the dirt to reveal lively critters. Meet spiders (not insects, but arachnids) that hunt, caterpillars that spin silk, and roly-poly garbage collectors. Have an insect party and try to sing like a cricket, dance like a bee, and eat like a butterfly. Study the life cycles and special abilities of backyard bugs.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Life of Bugs - PM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Discover the diverse world of insects and bugs. Turn over a rock and dig in the dirt to reveal lively critters. Meet spiders (not insects, but arachnids) that hunt, caterpillars that spin silk, and roly-poly garbage collectors. Have an insect party and try to sing like a cricket, dance like a bee, and eat like a butterfly. Study the life cycles and special abilities of backyard bugs.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Wizarding Science - AM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Would you like to go to Wizarding School? Take a potions class and learn chemistry, study the stars, make a broom fly using static electricity, and study magical creatures. Then use all of your wizarding science skills to face a challenge that makes the O.W.L. exam look easy.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Wizarding Science - PM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Would you like to go to Wizarding School? Take a potions class and learn chemistry, study the stars, make a broom fly using static electricity, and study magical creatures. Then use all of your wizarding science skills to face a challenge that makes the O.W.L. exam look easy.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Camp/Class is currently full.

Kelp Forest Habitat - AM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Become a marine scientist as you learn about the different animals that call the kelp forest home. Discover how kelp is used in a variety of products and create a kelp forest model.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Kelp Forest Habitat - PM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Become a marine scientist as you learn about the different animals that call the kelp forest home. Discover how kelp is used in a variety of products and create a kelp forest model.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Moonshot - AM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Discover what is on the Moon and learn what it takes to build a rocket to get there. Negotiate for parts with limited resources. Try landing a lunar module on the Moon’s surface.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Moonshot - PM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Discover what is on the Moon and learn what it takes to build a rocket to get there. Negotiate for parts with limited resources. Try landing a lunar module on the Moon’s surface.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

I Love Nature! - AM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Look out into your backyard to discover colors and patterns. Explore what lives in the dirt; plant some seeds and discover the science of seeds. Learn about butterflies that may wander into your habitat. Learn about other habitats in our neighborhood.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

I Love Nature! - PM Session

Ages 6-9, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Look out into your backyard to discover colors and patterns. Explore what lives in the dirt; plant some seeds and discover the science of seeds. Learn about butterflies that may wander into your habitat. Learn about other habitats in our neighborhood.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Nature Appreciation 101 - AM Session

Ages 9-12, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Appreciate nature through art discovery; insect science explorations; geological activities; and virtual watershed explorations. Develop your skills as you make thoughtful observations, pin an insect, collect rocks, and study habitats.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Nature Appreciation 101 - PM Session

Ages 9-12, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Appreciate nature through art discovery; insect science explorations; geological activities; and virtual watershed explorations. Develop your skills as you make thoughtful observations, pin an insect, collect rocks, and study habitats.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Paleo World - AM Session

Ages 9-12, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Develop your paleontology skills by excavating and studying fossils in a field lab. Build dinosaur models and examine them to learn how these “terrible lizards” looked, moved, and lived.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Paleo World - PM Session

Ages 9-12, Monday-Friday, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Location: Museum via Zoom

Develop your paleontology skills by excavating and studying fossils in a field lab. Build dinosaur models and examine them to learn how these “terrible lizards” looked, moved, and lived.
Activities will be shared and divided between the AM and PM sessions.

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Nature Adventures at Home Summer Camps 2020

Nature Adventures at Home Summer Camps: Ages 4-6

Nature Adventures at Home Summer Camps: Ages 6-9

Nature Adventures Summer Camps: Ages 9-12