The mission of the PEBC
is to be a vehicle for understanding and appreciating the natural
wonders in our own backyards.

Fairmont Community Education Photos
	Scrambled Animals/M.A.D. For Winter/The Snow Is My Home Scrambled Animals: Skin, skulls, scat and tracks! We’ve got pieces and parts of all sorts of Minnesota mammals. Students from the Fairmont area worked together to put these animals back together and figured out why different animals have different parts and how those parts help them to live in their specialized habitats. Naturalist Clay Steele helped the group figure out the secrets to tracking animals, on January 9, so next time they are outside, they can be a wildlife detective! On January 19, topics were M.A.D. For Winter: Not all animals fly south or get thick fur to survive our coldest season. The group learned about the remarkable preparations animals make for winter and the ingenious ways animal bodies work to keep themselves warm! And The Snow Is My Home: Snow can be so beautiful as it floats down from the sky! To many animals that stay active throughout the winter it can be a challenge. For some critters, however, the snow actually helps them to survive our coldest season! Students investigated how snowflakes are formed and explored the fun qualities of snow through “cool” experiments.” On January 28, Naturalist Alisha Flemming presented her program Hibernation Nation: The Minnesota winter can be a cold, cold place. If only we could sleep right through it...but wait! There just may be a way to...that is, if you know how to hibernate. In this program, the children learned all about Minnesota's hibernating animals through a picture book and fun activities.

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