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Field Station Cooperative Preschool is centered on nature study and seeks to develop in all of its students a love of learning, critical and independent thinking, creativity and imagination, social skills, and improved self confidence and self esteem. The curriculum includes all pre-reading and math skills appropriate for the pre-kindergarten age group and more advanced instruction for the kindergarten enrichment age group.
Our Mission
To create sustainable educational programs based on nature study which develop in our students:
- A love of learning
- Critical and independent thinking
- Creativity and imagination
- Social skills
- Self confidence and self esteem
- Environmental responsibility
- Respect for our natural surroundings
We have a partnership with the Indiana Dunes National Park. Our current and future facilities are owned by the National Park. We have a mutually beneficial relationship: they help us by providing the resources needed to have a nature based school; we help them by promoting the park, introducing its great benefits to children and families in our community, and by helping them preserve a historical structure on their property. The National Park also helps the school promote environmental stewardship with special lectures, hikes, educational materials, and events.
Field Station Cooperative is dedicated to education reform through parental involvement. By creating a sustainable preschool that promotes environmental educational activities, Field Station will bring the natural environment into early childhood education with the long range goal of environmental consciousness and respect for our natural surroundings for both preschoolers and their parents.