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3rd-4th Grade Envirothon

Welcome to the 2025 3rd-4th Grade York County Envirothon!

Please complete the following steps to participate in the 2025 Envirothon:

  1. Register Your School by December 1
  2. Register Your Team(s) & Order T-Shirts by March 1
  3. Register Your Students the morning of the competition

3rd-4th Grade Competition

Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025

Location: John C. Rudy County Park

Team Registration

Please submit one team registration form for each participating team. Each participating student and one coach per team will receive a free T-shirt. Extra T-shirts can be purchased on our website here.

Team Registration Deadline: March 1, 2025

Please submit the form below to register your teams for the 2025 Envirothon.

*Limit team names to four words or less (including building name). All teams at every grade level MUST have their own distinct team name.

Order T-Shirts

1.) All participating team members and one coach each receive FREE t-shirts on the day of competition (3rd-4th Grade Maximum: 6 shirts; 5th-6th Grade, Middle School, and Senior High Maximum: 7 shirts). Order these shirts below. 2.) Extra T-shirts can be purchased on our website at www.yorkccd.org/product/extra-envirothon-t-shirt or at the link below the Team Registration Form
Order Extra Envirothon T-Shirts

Study Session Registration

Participate in an Envirothon study session to help your team prepare for the Envirothon competition.

3rd-4th Grade Envirothon Study Session Dates:

  • Option 1: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 (4:30PM-7:30PM)
  • Option 2: Friday, April 4, 2025 (4:30-7:30PM)
  • Option 3: Saturday, April 5, 2025 (12:30-3:30PM)

Location:

  • York County Conservation District: 2401 Pleasant Valley Road, York, PA 17402

Guidelines:

  • Your students will rotate through several activity stations. Five minutes between rotations is scheduled for using restrooms or eating snacks.
  • Students must be supervised by coaches or school-approved chaperones at all times. Please inform parents or guardians to deliver their student directly to their coach or chaperone in the front lobby and pick up their student directly from their coach or chaperone in the front lobby. Do not drop a child off outside, send them in alone, or instruct them to exit the building to leave unless directly accompanied by a parent, guardian, coach, or chaperone.
  • Parents and siblings should not attend.
  • Teams may arrive up to 15 minutes early to check-in and get to your first station location. Please report how many students are attending from your group when you check-in.
  • Students and coaches are welcome to bring a snack. Please advise students to bring non-disruptive snacks.

Register:

Please submit the form below to register your teams for the Envirothon Study Sessions.

We encourage you to only bring up to the number of students you are permitted to bring to testing day. (3rd - 4th Grade: 5 students per team) If your number of expected students drops by an entire team, please email mmckelvey@yorkccd.org to let us know.
Will you arrive late, leave early, need to start with free time, need to end with free time, or require accommodations for specific needs or mobility issues? Please let us know so we may best assist you and your team(s).

Coach’s Manual

How to Coach an Envirothon Team

Click below to learn everything you need to know to successfully coach a 3rd – 4th Grade Envirothon team!

3rd – 4th Grade Coach’s Manual

PA Game Trailer

3rd – 4th Grade Study Resources

Please utilize Study Resource Cover Sheet for each study topic and use it for reference to ensure you have each of the study resources you need for each subject.

Aquatics 2025

Aquatics Study Resource Cover Sheet

  1. Ponds & Lakes
  2. Seasons of a Pond – PLAY
  3. Sunfish Family – PLAY (p. 1-5)
  4. The Perch Family – PLAY (p. 1, 3, & 5)
  5. All About Pike – PLAY (p. 1-5)
  6. PA Handsome Hoppers – PLAY – Learn information in text & photos. Do not need to learn all 16 frogs & toads listed on p. 7.
  7. Fun with Frogs – Frog Sounds – YouTube: Learning the Frog Sounds of Calvert County, Maryland (know five frogs/toads listed in study list) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPlWrEl84-I
  8. Where Do They Go in Winter? – PLAY

Forestry 2025

Forestry Study Resource Cover Sheet

  1. Tree Identification Basics
  2. Leaf Characteristics Packet
  3. Trees + Me = Forestry 4H Workbook –Chapters 1-2
  4. Future Forest Steward
  5. Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
  6. Ecosystems
  7. Maple Syrup
  8. Incredible Wood
  9. Sample Leaves and Key Practice
  10. Sample Forest Species Fact Pack

Wildlife 2025

Wildlife Study Resource Cover Sheet

  1. Bird Guide for Kids – Madison Audubon
  2. Audubon Adventures – Get to know birds
  3. All About Bird Nests
  4. Beaks and Feet – Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
  5. Audubon Adventures – Raptors! The Birds of Prey
  6. Bird Songs – AllAboutBirds.org (Search the bird species you want to study. Under the species name will be a heading that reads “Sounds”, click it and scroll down to find the audio recordings.)

Study Resource Questions, Comments, or Concerns?

Contact us! Use the form below to submit your study resource questions, comments, or concerns.

School Registration

Please submit one school registration form for each participating school.

The School Registration is your school’s “intent to participate” and is not a binding commitment. Even if you are not certain your school will be able to participate, we encourage you to submit the School Registration Form so that you continue receiving communications from the York County Envirothon in the meantime.

School Registration is now closed. If you have already submitted your School Registration, please submit your Team Registration(s) now.

If you missed the School Registration window, please email the Envirothon Coordinator and complete the Team Registration Form.

3rd-4th Grade Competition Photos

Thanks for participating in the 3rd-4th Grade Envirothon!

Please see below photos from the event.

How to Download your Team Photos:

  1. Click on your team photo to expand the image.
  2. Once you are viewing the expanded image, right click the image.
  3. Select “Save image as” to download the image and save it to your computer.

3rd-4th Grade Envirothon Quick Links

York County Envirothon
PA Envirothon
NCF Envirothon