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Field Trips now available, call or
email to book a trip
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TK-K SCHOOL (4.5/5 years old)
COST These field trips are geared for for little ones. 1.5 hours limited to 24 students ($200.00) and 4 adults (free) (over 4 adults add $10 per adult) ($10.00 per child up to 4 extra). Currently we are only doing one class per session. |
Ice Age Fossils (TK-K - 4-5 yr olds-K) Students sort living organism and Ice Age fossils and use numbers to count what they have sorted. They make a sabertooth kitten headband an go into the museum look for their mommy and daddy. They look for fossils in the Children’s Natural History Museum. Mammoth Mary and other fossils of Fremont come alive! |
D is for Dinosaur (TK-K - 4-5 yr olds-K) Students look at different dinosaur model and try and learn characteristics. They learn about how dinosaurs have babies. They make their own nest and get a dinosaur egg, which they take home. The compare tracks and trails created by dinosaurs and go up to museum to look at real dinosaur fossils. |
Ocean Critters with Shells (TK - 1)Students look at shells and learn how to sort and classify them. Students will make a shell bracelet. They will sort different types of shells. They will look at shells from India, and then look at the shells of San Francisco Bay. |
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (1st-6th grade)
COST 1.5 hours limited to 32 students ($195.00) and adults ( 8 free including teacher) (over 8 adults add $10 per adult) (over 32 children, up to 4 extra $10.00 per child ). Currently we are only doing one class per session. |
EARTH SCIENCES (1-6) |
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Solar System and Beyond (1-5 grades) * Understanding how humans learned about the Solar System is a fasination look into how science progresses. We look at the rotation/revolution of the Solar System including the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Students compare Earth and space rocks and how the phases of the Moon are created They make a book mark with original paper from the 1967 Apollo Moon Mission. |
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Volcanoes (4-6) Look at rocks produced by volcanoes from around the world? Students will be able to distinguish volcanic and plutonic rocks by learning different characteristics. They will determine the clues and act as a geologist to determine how the rocks were formed. |
PHYSICAL SCIENCE |
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LIFE SCIENCE/PALEONTOLOGY |
Carnivores and Herbivores (K-3 grades)* Students compare the different teeth of different animals and classify them into herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. They compare them with fossil herbivores and carnivores to compare and contrast. A tour of museum is included Limit: 1 class 30, 2 classes 60 students |
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Ocean Life - Present and Past (2-6
grades)
Students look at animals without
backbones (invertebrates). They learn how we sort and
classify shells produced by invertebrates. They will
learn the the
key characteristics that identify the invertebrates by looking at the
different phylums. Then they
will look at fossil shells, many from the San Francisco bay area, and learn what it means to
find them in rocks. A tour of museum included.
Limit: 1 class, 32 students |
Cost: $195.00
up to 32 children
Field trips are 1 1/2 hours (large groups 2 hours).
We no longer provide a snack.
Each
presentation usually includes 3 hands-on activities, with the exception
of large groups. Lessons are
customized to grade level. Outside patio available for lunch with
advance notice. Classes that visit the museum are denoted
with an asterisk *. Science Standard correlation scroll down after
class description.
Check online calendar for
POSSIBLE available dates.
Students may also visit the museum shop, but teacher should add
another 15 minutes to their trip. Many small items are under $2.00.
Group
Tours of Children's Natural History Museum
(ideal for scouts, adult groups, families, special needs)
Explore
a world of fossils from long ago including those from the
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Walk to more modern times
with fossils of mammoths, sabertooth cats, sloths, camels, and
other large mammals. Discover modern day animals through their
bones. Visit the Boy Paleontologist room to see how they
discovered the fossils in Fremont in the 1940’s.
Hands-on activities for small groups are located throughout the
museum.
PRICES: $15.00 per person (including adults). Minumun of 15 people, maximum of 30.. May include a complete tour of the museum and the connection of the different displays, 30 minute lecture on the Ice Age fossils; scavenger hunt with a prize (children only). Different options can be created depending on your group. About 1.5 to 2 hours (subjects may change with different exhibits or requests). Activities upstairs and downstairs.
Tours can be
scheduled depending on availability (including weekends).
VIRTUAL CLASSES ALSO AVAILABLE
Presentations are at 4074 Eggers Drive.
For more information please contact the Math/Science Nucleus at (510)790-6284 or email field@msnucleus.org |