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Adventures in Nature: A Caddo Mounds Creative STEM Camp

Join us for six days of nature adventures and family fun. Adventures in Nature is a STEM camp designed for families to learn and explore together. Learn about five different ecological systems and Caddo culture while being creative.

Garden scene with side images

Adventures in Nature: A Caddo Mounds Creative STEM Camp

Join us for six days of nature adventures and family fun. Adventures in Nature is a STEM camp designed for families to learn and explore together. Learn about five different ecological systems and Caddo culture while being creative.

Garden scene with side images

Adventures in Nature: A Caddo Mounds Creative STEM Camp

Join us for six days of nature adventures and family fun. Adventures in Nature is a STEM camp designed for families to learn and explore together. Learn about five different ecological systems and Caddo culture while being creative.

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San Jacinto Family Day: Dirt Detectives

We’ve created puzzles using images of real artifacts found during archaeological excavations at the San Jacinto Battleground. See if you can put them back together, and figure out what the object is and what it was used for, just life a real archaeologist!

Adventures in Nature: A Caddo Mounds Creative STEM Camp

Join us for six days of nature adventures and family fun. Adventures in Nature is a STEM camp designed for families to learn and explore together. Learn about five different ecological systems and Caddo culture while being creative.

Garden scene with side images

Adventures in Nature: A Caddo Mounds Creative STEM Camp

During a six-day Creative STEM family experience, community partners and families will explore Caddo Mounds SHS and engage with five different ecosystems through a braided Creative STEM approach. In this braided approach, families will explore land conservation through the strands of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), the Arts, and Western-based Science. For ages 8-11.

There is no Fee. This camp is offered in association with a National Science Foundation Grant and is free for families.

Each Family will receive a $25 gas card for each of the 6 days they attend. Lunch and snacks are provided.

Families commit to all six days of camp. May 4&5; June 1&2, 8&9 from 9:00 am until 3:30 pm.

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Red River War Series: Native American Storyteller

Second chance! Don't miss this opportunity to experience the art of storytelling as told by Native American storyteller Eldrena Douma.

A man and a woman in period dress cooking bread over a fire.

San Jacinto Family Day: Breadmaking

Try making your own campfire bread, just like the Texian soldiers did 187 years ago!

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San Jacinto Family Day: Corn Husk Angels

Kids had to make their own toys on the Texas frontier, and a corn husk doll was a staple of a Texas childhood in the 1830s. Join us to learn about dolls on the frontier and make your own holiday corn husk angel to take home.