Education Associate

Help support the education program at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park by becoming an Education Associate Volunteer!

Support education and deliver programs and activities to a student audience. Students are primarily 1st-8th graders, and on rare occasion pre-k, high school, and university students. Group sizes range from 10-25 students at a time, up to 200 per day.

Activities may include:

• Instructing students in the completion of a seek and find sheet in the visitor center.
• Guiding students down a moderately steep 0.25 mile dirt and bark mulch trail to identify plants and explore history and uses of plants.
• Providing flintlock muzzleloading demonstration in period dress.
• Providing fire-starting demonstrations in period dress.
• Guiding students on hikes of varying difficulties from 1 to 6.5 miles.
• Leading students in natural resources activities such as bird identification, dip netting, water quality science, and other citizen science activities.
• Reading children’s books aloud and acting as puppeteer or presenter for children’s puppet shows.
• Other activities developed by staff as trained in and assigned.

Minimum time requirement is 4 hours/week. Volunteers contributing 32 hours+ per week are eligible for a provided RV site 15 minutes away from the site.