The Lake County Forest Preserve District offers expertly guided, hands-on school and scout programs throughout Lake County. In addition to field trips, we’ll also come to your school with our in-school programs.

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Game plan for our school programs:

  • Address Illinois State Learning Standards
  • Customize to fit your needs
  • Offer hands-on learning
  • Feature experts, local historians and naturalists
  • Incorporate science, social studies, history and language arts
  • Design programs to fit your grade/age level
  • Offer convenient locations and schedules to minimize bus transport
  • Affordable programs

Featured Programs

  • Adlai Stevenson home, photo by Jess Smith
    All the Way with Adlai

    Take a look at this influential and important figure in United States political history with a tour of his house and grounds. On your visit: learn about his numerous achievements, his personality, his progressive ideas, and the place he fondly called home.

    5-12
    Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home
  • Crane Chronicles program, photo by Chip Williams
    Crane Chronicles

    This unique multidisciplinary program takes a problem-based learning approach to combine science, social studies and language arts. Students become reporters investigating Lake County crane populations and work in small groups at hands-on learning stations to prepare an angle on the story of natural and human history in Lake County. Students then sum up their findings in a feature story. This program is held exclusively at our Greenbelt Cultural Center near Waukegan.

    Save 25% on this program between December and February.

    4-6
    Greenbelt Cultural Center