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

  • Archaeology Field School

    A simulated dig and corresponding activities teach student archaeologists how to uncover artifacts and piece together the past.

    Call 847-968-3321 to reserve this program.

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  • Maple Syruping, photo by Justin Wambold

    Students learn how trees turn water, sunlight and air into sap. Then it’s into the sugarbush to practice drilling and watch the sap flow. A stop at the evaporator shows how sap becomes syrup. Everyone gets a chance to compare sap and taste real Ryerson Woods maple syrup.

    Call 847-968-3321 to reserve this program.

    Age 4-Grade 12