Be a Placer Nature Center Docent
Along with fruits and vegetables, kids need a steady diet of rocks, worms, dirt, fresh air, trees, seeds and a caring teacher to lead them through nature...
ShareThis! Join the team! Become a Docent.
Our Docent Training Class is filled with enriching lessons on natural and cultural history. Becoming a docent is easy and fun and is a great way to learn about our
foothill environment while sharing it with our children and our community.
Through Docent Training, you will learn the all the environmental and cultural science programs we share with school children who visit our site on school field trips.
You will build the skills you need to teach these programs to the children yourself! You'll also become part of a wonderful community of friends who volunteer for Placer Nature Center. Docent training classes are offered twice yearly, in the winter and fall.
“Children have a natural affinity towards nature. Dirt, water, plants, and small animals attract and hold children’s attention for hours, days, even a lifetime.”
- Robin C. Moore and Herb H Wong
Community volunteers who have completed our docent training lead school children (grades pre-school through grade 12) through thematic environmental education programs.
The inter-generational sharing between our docents and our student visitors provides important social contact for many talented citizens and our young visitors.
As they teach, Placer Nature Center volunteers link people to their environment and cultivate the child-like delight of discovery within all of us.
Autumn Schedule
| Tue., Sept 14 | 9am - 11am | ORIENTATION/TOUR of Placer Nature Center |
| Thu., Sept 16 | 9am - 12pm | Curriculum: SENSES OF WONDER; Preschool, Kindergarden |
| Tue., Sept 21 | 9am - 12pm | Curriculum: HABITAT & LIFE CYCLES; 1st, 2nd Grade |
| Thu., Sept. 23 | 9am - 12pm | Curriculum: MAIDU; 3rd Grade |
| Tue., Sept 28 | 9am - 12pm | Curriculum: FOOD CHAINS & ECOLOGY; 4th, 5th Grade |
| Thu., Sept 30 | 9am - 1pm | Curriculum: WATERSHED; Pond Paddlers/Stream Swimmers |
| 12pm - 1pm | GRADUATION/POTLUCK |
Download a PDF copy of the schedule here.
Contact Linda for more information linda@placernaturecenter.org or call 530-878-6053
“Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.”
- Edwin Way Teale
The education we provide at Placer Nature Center focuses on using the environment to engage students in learning science through: awareness and sensitivity to the total environment and its problems; experience in and understanding of the environment; establishing a sense of connection between and to the immediate environment and the student so that they understand that the nature of our lives and our environment are inseparable.