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Home > Our Community Partners > The Minnesota Wildlife Refuge and The Fish and Wildlife ServicePrint View
About the Minnesota Wildlife Refuge and Us
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We currently have a three year partnership with the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. 

The Refuge is located less than 10 miles from downtown Minneapolis lies an outdoor experience as primitive and natural as any state or national park. The Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge is one of only a handful
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of urban national wildlife refuges in the nation, a place where coyotes, bald eagles, badgers, and beavers live next door to three million people.

Our students have a wonderful opportunity to go on field trips and learn about nature hands on.  The Refuge also supports our unique on-site prairie garden.



 Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Website  
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In collaboration with the MN Wildlife Refuge, Science Technology and Ojibwe Language/Culture 2nd graders created a slideshow about MN habitats

Image Gallery: 2nd Grade - Water Bug Hunt
2nd Graders and some of their family members spent the day at the Refuge collecting and studying pond animals.
See all 14 images.


Image Gallery: Kids in Nature

Checking out some animal tracks. Snowshoeing on the trails. Learning to bait her own hook! See all 8 images.


Image Gallery: Teachers in Nature-Spring
As part of the partnership, teachers are offered free workshops 3 times during the year: fall, winter, and spring. This is the teachers at the spring workshop.
Ms. Rhoads (Science) volunteers to help explain the anatomy of a pond insect. Ms. Rhoads (Science) is metamorphosing into an insect. See Ms. Rhoads teacher page to see her complete transformation! Teachers learning from the Wildlife Refuge staff about the different habitats at the Refuge. See all 7 images.



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