Fresh Air Moments
The Highlands Center For Natural History is committed to staying connected with you and the natural world. Everyday for as long as our public programs are postponed or cancelled, our education staff will be sharing place-based nature and science-related posts. These posts are intended to be interactive, shared, and to be a resource for all people. These “Fresh Air Moments” are our way of encouraging everyone to take a moment outside everyday – on your porch, in your backyard, walking on the sidewalk, or on local trails like here at the Highlands Center.
Fresh Air Moment – Fall Volunteer Enrichment Class
This past fall, long time Volunteer of the Highlands Center, Tom Benson, offered his Life Enrichment course to all Highlands Center volunteers. At the end of the course, each person was asked to write a poem inspired by nature. While they were all very well written...
Fresh Air Moments: Granite is Great!
A closer look at a common rock.
Fresh Air Moments: What’s the Scoop on Soil?
There are 3 main components to think about: texture, structure, and color. The grains and particles that make up soil are categorized into three groups by size: sand, silt, and clay. Sand particles are the largest and clay particles the smallest. Most soils are a...
Fresh Air Moments: Super Soil
“We know more about the celestial bodies overhead than we do the soil underfoot” – Leonardi Da Vinci “Dirt don’t hurt!” – Jessie, Education Coordinator for HCNH It is so easy to forget that right underfoot is a whole world, complete with neighborhoods, methods of...
