HOME EDUCATORS and SCOUTS
Are you a home educator or Scout master looking for interesting opportunities for your children? OutsideIN MS can come to you! We provide fun, hands-on classes for students ages 5-15 in a variety of topics. Each class lasts approximately one to two hours, and we provide all the materials.
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We'll do classes at your house, church, or location of your choosing.
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Class sizes run from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 12 students.
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Class fees are $10-$20/child, plus the following fuel charge from Natchez, Mississippi:
1-30 miles away: No charge
31-50 miles away: $20.00
51-100 miles away: $30.00
101+ miles away: Please call for a rate
EXPLORE OUR CLASSES!
INTRO TO ARCHAEOLOGY
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Basic techniques and tools of archaeology, plus sorting and classification exercises.
$10.00
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Take a look at the lives and culture of Mississippi's earliest inhabitants.
$15.00
BIRTH OF OUR STATE
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How did Mississippi get to be a state? Learn about the territorial timeline, and what it takes to get a town started.
$10.00
ANCIENT EGYPT
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Write a message in hieroglyphs and discover what the lives of ancient Egyptians were really like.
$10.00
MISSISSIPPI MAMMALS
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Learn to identify our state's mammals, and figure how they fit into the system of biological classification. Play animal bingo!
$10.00
OWLS
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Owl calls, identification, special characteristics, and dissecting owl pellets.
$10.00
TRACK IDENTIFICATION
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Learn to recognize Mississippi's common mammals from their tracks, and make a plaster track cast.
$15.00
TREE IDENTIFICATION
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Learn about the parts of leaves, their shapes and configurations, to identify them in the field.
$10.00
SNAKES
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Explore the wonderful world of snakes--what they can and cannot do, and hold a live corn snake.
$10.00
SKULL IDENTIFICATION
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Can you recognize Mississippi's major mammals from their skulls?
$10.00
FINGERPRINTS
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Discover the different types of fingerprint patterns, solve a mystery, and make your own "ten-card."
$10.00
OUTDOOR SURVIVAL
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Tarp shelters, making fires, wild foods, and an easy snare. Make a first aid or fire kit.
$15.00
CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
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Examine footprints, conduct physical tests, look at ransom notes, and test your powers of observation.
$10.00
SLIME TIME
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There are many recipes for slime, and we'll try a bunch of them! But why to do they work? Find out while having some messy fun!
$15.00
DIY ESCAPE ROOM
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Develop a story line, create clues, and figure out the puzzles you'll need to solve.
$15.00
OH,YUCK!
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Eyeballs, scabs, and cockroaches--oh, my! This is a very hands-on class dedicated to the gross and disgusting (but kind of fascinating) things in our lives.
$15.00
WHO KILLED THE MAJOR?
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A full escape room that comes to YOU! Using pages from a journal, can you and your friends find out who was responsible for the murder, solve the clues, unlock the boxes, and find out the guilty party?
$20.00