Wayside Waifs 3901 Martha Truman Road, Kansas City, MO 64137 | Virtual Experience Wayside Waifs is the largest pet adoption campus in Kansas City, serving more than 20,000 pets and people through pet adoptions, youth education, canine training programs, and community programming. Wayside offers a variety of free educational programs and opportunities for troops. For more information and a list of available programs, visit www.waysidewaifs.org. To register your troop’s program, complete the program request form .
Museum at Prairiefire 5801 W. 135th Street, Overland Park, KS 66223 The Museum at Prairiefire, in collaboration with the American Museum of National History and other cultural and educational institutions, provides access for all to understand and celebrate natural history and science in our region and around the world. Group visits are available Monday-Friday and can be customized to fit your group’s specific interests. To register your troop’s program, contact education@visitthemap.org or call 913-333-3506.
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Discover dinosaurs, extinct sea monsters, live animals, Kansas wetlands and more! Girls, led by museum scientists, will explore all the museum has to offer through active and hands-on experiences millions of years in the making. Length : 2 hours.
Discover the Natural World
Looking for a guest speaker for your next troop meeting? The Wayside Waifs Humane Education team is happy to create customized presentations for your troop. Speaking topics include connections between people and animals, volunteer and career opportunities, general animal shelter and rescue information, and more.
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QQQ Girls will join Museum at Prairefire (MAP) scientists as they learn about natural ways water purification can be achieved, while exploring the hard-working MAP wetlands and investigating how water sculpts the land using a hands-on stream table.
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Wonders of Wetlands
Girls will tour the wetlands while learning how to identify and mount insects for a collection that they can take home. Transforming energy from one form to another. Girls will work as a team to design and build a marble roller coaster that has two complete vertical loops with three half-sections of pipe insulation and duct tape. This hands-on experience will highlight how energy can be transformed and lost if not nurtured properly.
Questions? Contact humaneed@waysidewaifs.org.
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