Explore More at Pritchard Park

Explore More provides environmental education, citizen science, and nature play opportunities for all ages. From STEM activities and explorer backpacks to native plant gardens, science lectures, and habitat restoration, ExMo connects you to nature.

Sited in the woods near the library’s main entrance, the nature-play space is unstructured and all natural. It will evolve over time as kids dig and build, and materials decay or are added. Today, the nature-play space includes stumps and logs from a large, old willow oak that was recently replaced on Franklin Street, and boulders from sites around town.

Citizen Science is the collaboration between the scientific community and the general public, who collect and share data about the natural world. The Explore More initiative will bring together volunteers on experiments and observations that will help the scientific community.

Named partners on this project are the UNC Institute for the Environment and the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. This project is made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (IMLS grant number LS-00-17-0034-17).