Educational Programme: » The White Stork in Čigoć «

Description of the Programme:

Arrival at the Info Centre, Čigoć no. 26; a short lecture about storks; stork-spotting with binoculars; walk around the village and counting the nests; looking round the yards led by an educational expert; Back to the playroom of the Educational Centre; filling in worksheets; looking round traditional carpenter’s shop and souvenir stand.
On account of the ages of the visitors, there are special worksheets for younger and for older schoolchildren, and also for adults. For pre-school children, there is a specially adapted programme.
Usually this programme is expanded with a visit to one of the ethnographic collections, and a trip to the floodwater retention zone of Lonjsko Polje (around Čigoć or Mužilovčica. In the plain, the Expert Guide will acquaint the visitors with some of the richness of the flora and fauna of the Nature Park, and facilitate observation and photographing of the pastures with their herds of horses, cattle and pigs.
This programme is available from April 1 to August 10, during the time the storks stay in Lonjsko Polje, but if the visitors so wish, it can be arranged even after the storks have departed for warmer climes.

Length of the programme: 2 – 2.5 hours

Specimen of the »The White Stork in Čigoć«
educational worksheet

( Acrobat Reader PDF, 124 KB )

The »Krapje – Architectural Heritage Village«
Educational Programme

Description of the Programme:

Arrival at the Info Centre, Krapje no. 1; a short lecture about the village in which the traditional architecture created in the 18th and 19th centuries is exceptionally well preserved; the houses are made of famed Posavina oak. Walk round the village, photographing, looking round houses and yards, filling in worksheets; assembling models of the Posavina house in the playroom and tour of the gallery premises and the souvenir stand.
At the wish of the visitors, it is possible to arrange a visit to St Anthony’s Church in Krapje.
Usually this educational programme is expanded by a visit to one of the ethnological collections and a trip to the flood retention area of Lonjsko Polje at the village of Mužilovčica.
A visit to the Bird Sanctuary at Krapje đol can also be arranged.
This programme is available throughout almost the whole of the year, and is intended for all age groups.

Length of the programme: 2 – 2.5 hours

Example of an educational worksheet
»Krapje – Architectural Heritage Village«
( GIF, 116 KB )

Special Programmes

For all specialist natural science groups of visitors (secondary schools, universities, ecologists and other associations and clubs) it is possible on request to organise special educational programmes such as:
»Indigenous Breeds in Lonjsko Polje Nature Park« (the Posavina horse, the Turopolje hog, the Posavina retriever)
»Spoonbills and Herons in the Krapje đol Bird Sanctuary«
»Amphibians in Lonjsko Polje Nature Park«