The Environmental Education Center at Saluda Shoals Park provides programming for all grade levels covering Life Science, Physical Science and Earth Science. Programs are inquiry-based and are developed to address or meet the South Carolina Education Science Standards. These onsite programs have three components; a classroom lesson to establish topic, an interaction component utilizing a visit to the Exhibit Hall followed by an immersion learning trail hike to a specific habitat. 
All our programs include pre– and post–visit activity sheets to help teachers prepare for the unit lessons. A program fee of $2.50 per student is charged for all public, private and home school groups.
Each classroom can hold up to 25 students. Two classes can be scheduled in each time slot. Programs last one and a half hours and are offered at 9:30 am or 11:15 am. All programs must be reserved in advance by calling the Environmental Center at Saluda Shoals Park, 803.213.2053 during regular business hours.
GRADE-SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
The following grade-specific life science programs are tailor-made for the grade-level indicated.
Kindergarten: Life Cycles of Plants; Life Cycles of Animals; Plants Change with the Seasons
First Grade: Organisms and Their Environment; Basic Needs of Plants; Plants have a Life Cycle
Second Grade: Animal Life Cycles; Animals and Their Habitats; Classifying Animals.
Third Grade: How Animals Survive; How Plants Survive; Soil Structure and Change.
Fourth Grade: Diversity of Plants and Animals; Interaction of Plants and Animals; Effects of Organisms on the Environment.
Fifth Grade: Biotic and Abiotic factors in a Living System; Environmental Quality; The Constantly Changing Earth
Sixth Grade: Effects of Rainfall on land; Structures and Function of Plants; Fungus’s Role in an Ecosystem.
Seventh Grade: Analyze Soil Properties; Analyze Watersheds; Populations and Ecosystems; Living on a Flood Plain.
MULTIPLE GRADE PROGRAMS
Second –Twelfth Grade: Interpretive Canoe Trip on the Saluda River.
Third –Twelfth Grade: Ornithology.
Eighth–Twelfth Grade: Biodiversity, Wetlands.