AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE !
Educational programs:
The educational programs of Explos-Nature have as a general objective
to explore nature with students by observations and experiments in
order to make them become aware of the importance to safeguard it.
These programs are adapted to various types of customers: elementary
school to university as well as the general public.
Topics:
The main theme of our programs, the marine
environment of the St. Lawrence, allows teachers and students to
approach various disciplines: history (main entrance of the continent,
settlement of Québec and Canada), geography and geology (formation of
the Canadian shield, the river and seas and the links between them),
French (account of discoverers, tales and legends, poems, scientific
reports), chemistry and physics (salinity, stratification and density
of water), mathematics (surface, volume and flow of the St. Lawrence),
astronomy (rotation of the Earth, the moon and the sun to explain the
phenomenon of the tides), biology (the ecology of the fauna and flora
of the St. Lawrence) as well as the arts (maquettes, drawings, theatre,
improvisations). These disciplines are molten with the topics
approached in our programs:
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supralittoral : This is the zone of the seashore that is
uncovered by the tide from the St. Lawrence but encounters its effects.
We discuss the adaptation of the plants on the seashore, the geological
formation, the history, the marine and forest birds as well as the
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mediolittoral: This is the zone of the tides. We explore
particular forms of life in this zone, the phenomenon of the tides and
the chemical and physical constraints undergone by the fauna and flora.
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infralittoral: This is the zone of the seashore that is always
covered by water. We discover the underwater and marine fauna, from the
invertebrates to large mammals, the whales. We also examine the
oceanography of the St. Lawrence and the constraints of deep-sea diving
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OUR EDUCATIONNAL PROGRAMS
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One day Laboratory
Since April 2004, Explos-Nature
proposes a series of activities that are spread across one day between
the walls of the wet laboratory of the House of the Sea located in
Bergeronnes. To date, more than 250 students have had the chance to
transform themselves into scientists for the duration of a few hours.
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The sea on the road
This travelling
program, in action since March 2000, makes it possible to diffuse
activities associated with the marine environment of the St. Lawrence
in elementary and high schools throughout Québec. Until now, this
educational program made it possible for nearly 8000 young to come into
contact with living organisms of the St. Lawrence while remaining in
their classroom. The biologists of Explos-Nature come to deliver a
fabulous adventure by the means of captivating activities requesting
all of the five senses. Look into the belly of the St. Lawrence, taste
the products of the sea, touch live animals, transform a student into a
diver, become familiarized with mammals. Whatever the activities
chosen, you will live a once in a lifetime experience that promotes
learning and develops the feeling of belonging necessary to pose
concrete gestures for the conservation and protection of the
environment. An exceptional animation that will connect you forever to
the St. Lawrence
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The sea school
Since 1990, this
program is addressed to schools, from elementary to university that
want to follow a true training: to touch, taste, feel, see and
understand the intimate life of the marine environment of the St.
Lawrence. The school of the sea is a practical training course, two
feet in nature, centered on direct observation, experimentation and
scientific vulgarisation. The sites chosen for the various excursions
offer a wide range of habitats that make it possible for the trainees
to discover, identify and learn about a diversified variety of
organisms and ecological principles. The training courses are offered
in variable durations and animated by sympathetic and professional
naturalists adapted to different types of customers. The months of May,
June, September and October are reserved for groups from elementary and
high schools, cegeps and universities.
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Young Explos summer camps
The Young Explos
summer camps were founded in 1955 by Mr. Léo Brassard. Since then, thousands of
young people throughout Québec have been initiated to the natural
sciences. The monitors are diplomed naturalists that accommodate and
guide trainees that are gathered in groups of 5 or 6 people on the
terrain. This camp offers to young people, between the ages of 10 and
17 years, avid of spaces and discoveries, the possibility of living an
unforgettable experience on the seashore and sea. It enables them to
benefit more from the world that surrounds them by understanding better
the botany, ornithology, geology and marine biology from this corner of
the fantastic Côte-Nord. The camps are offered from July to August,
according to a variable schedule and are easily adjustable with one’s
interests.
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