Sierra Nevada Journeys

Classrooms unleashed focuses on 1st - 6th grade students in northern california and northern nevada. The program blends innovative classroom science education with practical, interactive field study to build stem skills and content knowledge. Sierra nevada journeys' science educators deliver a lesson unit in the classroom and a field science experience at a local nature area. Students work independently and as groups to make observations, analyze data, and record conclusions in their science notebooks. The cirriculum is designed to directly address state science standards and elicit from students a high level of curiosity, engagement, and enthusiasm for science learning. 7,375 students participated in classrooms unleashed with a 28% average gain score from pre-to post-assessment.community programs: during school days, evenings, summers, and weekends, sierra nevada journeys facilitates community development partners' programs for more than 28,000 children to increase accessibility to outdoor and stem learning. Partners include elementary schools through a program called classrooms unleashed, family stem nights, camps for children with disabilities, teen leadership camps, and other community-focused organizations. Examples include: youth development network, united cerebral palsy, the children's cabinet, improve your tomorrow, and the boys & girls club of the truckee meadows.