Educational opportunities for all ages

Learning comes alive when students from 3 to 103 participate in Renfrew Institute’s educational programs and workshops.
For school children, a variety of sequenced grade-level programs featuring hands-on activities and discovery-based learning methods are offered during fall and spring sessions. During the cultural history programs, students step back in time to learn how Pennsylvania Germans lived on the Renfrew (Royer) farmstead 200 years ago. Topics include dairy culture, wool culture, flax culture, food preservation and preparation, and German four-square gardening. Older students visit the Renfrew Museum house, use hands-on curatorial methods to become “artifact detectives,” and learn the story of Renfrew’s benefactress, Emma Geiser Nicodemus.

Thank you, Renfrew, for the excellent programs you provide. The hands-on activities greatly benefit students’ ability to retain what they have learned.

Darla Shank, elementary teacher

During the environmental programs, rich, firsthand experience in the natural world helps students understand how nature works and what role humans play in the ecosystem. From early childhood sensory activities and introductory concepts in ecology to more advanced scientific exploration including watershed and wetland studies, students are immersed in the beauty and wonder of the natural environment at Renfrew.
Adults and teens can attend lectures and workshops on a variety of cultural and environmental topics throughout the year. Field trips take participants off-site to extend and deepen knowledge.
Youth programs include several options. An after-school watershed and stream study program for middle-schoolers called WaterStriders, meets monthly year-round.
A 90-minute program with either a cultural or environmental theme is available for groups (scouts, youth, camp, daycare, etc.) and families that arrange for special dates.


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