A classroom
shaped by time
The Clamouse cave and its team welcome primary schools, secondary schools, recreation centers, and youth centers with packages tailored to the children’s educational levels.
Choose your package, half-day or full-day, and let our team guide you to discover and understand the diverse riches of the cave and its surroundings.
Educational tours
The Clamouse Cave team offers teachers a choice of 3 educational tours, specifically designed for students from Cycle 1 (nursery to 1st grade) to Cycle 2 (2nd to 5th grade).
This storytelling walk, designed for very young children, will take them on a journey to the kingdom of the crystal fairies, the creators of the Clamouse crystals.
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum
Group size: 25 children maximum
This immersive, storytelling tour will take the children on a journey to meet the four great guardians of Clamouse. Each of them holds one of the cave’s secrets.
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum
Capacity: 25 children maximum
This educational tour will take the children on a journey in the footsteps of the first explorers. The guide will introduce them to the underground water cycle, life in caves, and the influence of the surface on the underground environment.
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum
Capacity: 25 children maximum
Educational workshops
Designed in line with school curricula, these 3 workshops offer a practical, interactive, and immersive approach to science, the environment, and natural heritage.
The activity aims to introduce children to the wonders and mysteries of caves through three themes: cave formations, speleologists, and underground life. The activity consists of two parts:
- Through a “Picture Memory” workshop, the children will be able to discover everything they’ll find in the cave.
- With the help of these images, the child will be able to put their thoughts into words, and with the facilitator’s guidance, stimulate their thinking and imagination.
Objective: To spark children’s curiosity and help them discover the underground environment.
Teaching materials: floor mats, colored dice, pictures, objects.
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes maximum
Capacity: 25 children maximum
This workshop will take the children on a journey to explore the underground world. They’ll learn about a caver’s gear and the purpose of each item, as well as everything that can be found in a cave. The activity is divided into several parts:
- Exploring concretions through a hands-on activity in which students examine samples to feel their textures and shapes.
- Introduction to and hands-on experience with caving equipment, and an overview of a caver’s work.
- Learn about the process of how concretions form through quick, hands-on activities so that all the children can participate.
Objective: To understand the environment of a cave, what forms there, and how to explore it without leaving any traces.
Teaching materials: topic sheets, samples, and fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes maximum
Capacity: 25 children maximum
This workshop will guide children in observing, drawing, and interpreting the different layers of the landscape through sensory and creative activities, helping them understand how the gorges were naturally formed, as well as the vegetation and animals that live there. The activity consists of several parts:
- Children will be able to observe their surroundings to understand the landscape of the gorges and the various geological layers.
- Observe the flora and fauna from the lookout point.
- Creating botanical fact sheets or small observational sketches
Objective: To explore the natural environment of the gorges through its flora and fauna and to encourage children to engage in active observation.
Teaching materials: binoculars, rock samples, notebooks, botanical fact sheets.
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes maximum
Capacity: 25 children maximum
Half-day package
Accompanied by a science educator, choose between an educational tour in the heart of the Clamouse cave or an educational workshop to discover the underground world. The guides’ commentary is adapted to the students’ age.
Full-day package
This package combines an educational tour of the cave with an educational workshop adapted to the children’s age. It also allows for two classes to be hosted simultaneously.
In the morning:
- Educational tour of Clamouse for 1 of the 2 groups
- Choice of educational workshop for the other group
In the afternoon: we swap!
School booking
To make a reservation for one or two classes, please fill out this form or contact us by phone at: 04 67 57 71 05, Option 2.
