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In-Class Field Trip Catalog:
| Kindergarten | SKE1.a,b | Night & Day Wheel | Students will develop a model to show day and night and include things seen in the day or night sky. Includes an illuminated sun with earth and moon model for teacher use. |
| Kindergarten | SKP1.a,b | Kite Day! | Students will compare materials to determine the best ones for designing their own kite. (EDP) |
| Kindergarten | SKL1. a,b | Living vs. Non-living | Students will classify objects according to living or non-living and develop models. |
| Kindergarten | SKP1.c | Will it Float? | Students will classify objects according to their physical attributes- buoyancy. |
| Kindergarten | BristleBot Robtos | ||
| Kindergarten | Cartesian Diver | ||
| 1st Grade | Blooming Flower: Make-N-Take | ||
| 1st Grade | Disappearing Rainbows | ||
| 1st Grade | Harmonica: Make-N-Take | ||
| 1st Grade | Magnet Magic | ||
| 1st Grade | S1L1.a | Parts of a Plant | Students will identify and label the parts of a plant. |
| 1st Grade | S1P1.a,b,c | Secret Signals: Light & Sound | Lights and sounds can not only be used for seeing and hearing, but also as a way to communicate directions, warning signals, etc. |
| 1st Grade | Weather Station: Make-N-Take | ||
| 2nd Grade | S2L1.c | Bee A Pollinator: Make-N-Take | Students will design a honey bee and pollinate two flowers with their honeybee. |
| 2nd Grade | Catapult: Make-N-Take | ||
| 2nd Grade | Erosion Table - Hugh Bennett and Dust Bowl | ||
| 2nd Grade | S2L1.a | Lot's of Life Cycles | Students will create a life cycle model of an organism of their choice. |
| 2nd Grade | S2P1 a | Mystery Matter | Students will classify objects into solids, liquids and gases depending on their properities. |
| 2nd Grade | S2P2. b,c | Rosie Revere's Flying Machine - Force and Motion | Students will listen to the story Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty read by a NASA astronaut. Students will then work through the Engineering Design Process to design a flying machine for Rosie Revere. Students will build a simply "flying" machine to fly on a zip line as they investigate aspects of force and motion. |
| 2nd Grade | StarLab - Sun, Moon and Planets | ||
| 3rd Grade | S3E2. a,b | Fossils & Extinction | Students will observe and classify fossils while exploring the process of fossilization. |
| 3rd Grade | Freddie the Fish - Pollution | ||
| 3rd Grade | S3L1.b | Hiding In Plain Sight | Deign, hide, and hunt organisms using camoflauge. |
| 3rd Grade | Splendid Soil | ||
| 3rd Grade | Taking a Lesson from Nature | ||
| 3rd Grade | Weather Station: Make-N-Take | ||
| 3rd Grade | Zoology | ||
| 4th Grade | S4P3.a,c | Robotic Hand STEM Challenge | Students will learn the important qualities of prosthetic lims and build a simple model robotic hand. |
| 4th Grade | Rosie Revere's Flying Machine - Force and Motion | Students will listen to the story Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty read by a NASA astronaut. Students will then work through the Engineering Design Process to design a flying machine for Rosie Revere. Students will build a simply "flying" machine to fly on a zip line as they investigate aspects of force and motion. | |
| 4th Grade | Simple Machines Challenge | ||
| 4th Grade | S4P2.a | Sound Investigation | Students will use various items to investigate sound and vibrations (palm pipes, tuning forks, boom whackers, etc.) |
| 4th Grade | StarLab - Moon, Planets, ans Stars | ||
| 4th Grade | Up Periscope | ||
| 4th Grade | Weather Station: Make-N-Take | ||
| 4th Grade | Zip to It! | ||
| 5th Grade | Build this Structure with Iggy Peck | ||
| 5th Grade | S5P2.b | Complete the Circuit! | Students will explore circuits. (Motors, batteries, lights, and wires) |
| 5th Grade | S5E1. A,b, c | Constructive or Destructive Processes | Students use mini stream tables to demonstrate constructive and destructive forces on landforms. Weathering, erosion and deposition will be the focus. |
| 5th Grade | Fast Lane | ||
| 5th Grade | Strawberry DNA Extraction - Heredity and Genetics | Students will complete a DNA Extraction Lab using fruits while exploring the roles of genes and chromosomes. Students will discuss acquired and inherited physical traits. | |
| 5th Grade | Variation of Traits | ||
| 6th Grade | S6E1. a,b,c,d, | Earth's Place In The Universe | Students will create a model to demonstrate the seasons as well as complete a scavenger hunt using Stellarium. |
| 6th Grade | S6E5. d | Earth's Surface - Erosion and Deposition | Students use mini stream tables to demonstrate constructive and destructive forces on landforms. Weathering, erosion & deposition will be the focus. |
| 6th Grade | Ice Core | ||
| 6th Grade | S6E2. A | Moon Phase Wheel | Students will make a model of the phases of the moon and learn why we see the different phases using the moon phase inquiry set. |
| 6th Grade | Weather Station Component - Barometer | ||
| 7th Grade | S7L4 c | Biomes and Biomimicry: Taking A Lesson From Nature | Students will explore animal adaptation and biomimicry. Students will create an invention that uses biomimicry from an animal or plant adaptation. |
| 7th Grade | S7L2 c. | Body Systems In Space - Body Systems and Homeostasis | Students will review body systems, their functions, how they work together and the effedts on zero gravity. Students will use the EDP to create a prototype fo a prodect that will help an anstonaut live in zero gravity. |
| 7th Grade | How Can I Help? | ||
| 7th Grade | Robotic Hand STEM Challenge | Students will learn the important qualities of prosthetic lims and build a simple model robotic hand. | |
| 7th Grade | S7L3 | Strawberry DNA Extraction - Heredity and Genetics | Students will complete a DNA Extraction Lab using fruits while exploring the roles of genes and chromosomes. Students will discuss acquired and inherited physical traits. |
| 7th Grade | S7L1.a | The Key To It All | Students will use a Dichotomous Key to identify organisms. |
| 7th Grade | The Unseen World: Structure and Function of Cells - Plant and Animal Cells | ||
| 8th Grade | S8P2. b | Bounce | Students will discover potential and kenetic energy while measuring the bounce of two different types of balls. |
| 8th Grade | S8P1. a | Compound Mixture Elements - Separate Iron From Cereal | Students will discover the differences in compounds, mixtures, and elements while extrating iron from iron fortified cereal. |
| 8th Grade | S8P2. d | It's Melting: Flow Of Heat Exploration | Students will explore the flow of heat between hands, ice and hand warmers while discussing conduction, convection,and radiation. |
| 8th Grade | Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy - Catapult | ||
| 8th Grade | Robotic Hand STEM Challenge | Students will learn the important qualities of prosthetic lims and build a simple model robotic hand. | |
| 8th Grade | Rosie Revere's Flying Machine - Force and Motion | Students will listen to the story Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty read by a NASA astronaut. Students will then work through the Engineering Design Process to design a flying machine for Rosie Revere. Students will build a simply "flying" machine to fly on a zip line as they investigate aspects of force and motion. | |
| 8th Grade | Sail Away |
