Program areas at Sierra Nevada Journeys
Residential education programs at grizzly creek ranch: Sierra nevadajourneys served 4,339 youth in 2022 at our grizzly creek ranch camp. Fifth and sixth graders throughout the school year participate in overnight outdoor learning. These education programs use outdoor, experiential learning to teach science, technology, engineering and math (stem), as well as social-emotional learning competencies. Students received full days and evenings of hands-on, engaging instruction during which they observe the environment and ecology, collect and analyze samples, learn the importance of environmental stewardship and work collaboratively to solve science problems. Additionally, 90% of students in snj'sprograms demonstrated improved understanding of science standards.
Classrooms unleashed is focuses on 1st-6th grade students in northern California and nortern 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 three lesson units that include 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. Curriculum is designed to directly address state science standards and elicits from students a high level of curiosity, engagement, and enthusiasm for science learning. 11,000 students participated in classrooms unleashed with a 37% average gain score from pre- to post-assessment.community programs: during school days, over evenings, summers and weekends, Sierra Nevada Journeys facilitates community development partners' programs for more than 26,000 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: improve your tomorrow; united cerebral palsy; city of sacramento office of youth development; black youth leadership project; northern Nevada international center; and boys & girls club of truckee meadows.