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California Academy of Sciences. PGMS 7 th Grade Field Trip Spring, 2013. Learning Objectives. Describe how different organisms from various habitats are adapted to live where they do. Explain and provide examples of how human activity impacts the natural world. Transportation Expectations.
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California Academy of Sciences PGMS 7th Grade Field Trip Spring, 2013
Learning Objectives • Describe how different organisms from various habitats are adapted to live where they do. • Explain and provide examples of how human activity impacts the natural world.
Transportation Expectations • Arrive at school 7:15 a.m. ready to board the bus. • Depart from MS at 7:30 a.m. • Meet at bus at Golden Gate Park no later than 2:30 for return. • Return to PGMS at 5-5:30 p.m.
Acceptable Use of TechnologyCell Phones, iPods, Cameras NO iPads, Laptops, or other larger tablets!
CAS Behavioral Expectations • Stay with your chaperone and group at all times. • Be respectful of the living animals by walking through the museum • Talk quietly and resisting the urge to tap on the glass. • Don't open food or drinks in the exhibits. • California Academy of Science
3 2 4 5 1 Main Entrance
Team Tasks • Take a picture with someone on your team standing next to this fossil for scale. • Fact Quest: • How much did this animal weigh? • How much did it eat? • Why the short forelimbs? Examples of tasks: T-Rex Skeleton
Team Tasks • Fact Quest: • Carefully observe the Galapagos tortoises. Find 3 variations (physical differences) between these 4 species. Task: Islands of Evolution
Team Tasks • Snakes and Lizards – How many can you find? #5: Rainforest
Possible End Products (Team or Individual) – Extra Credit? • Mini documentary : video, narration, music • Podcast: one for each station • Electronic postcard: storybook w/ images and descriptions, theme song. • Multimedia self-guided tour: Use PowerPoint with branching navigation – include sounds, narrations, pictures. • Photo album: with images, captions, sketches • “Being There” essay: Documenting and describing your experience at the Academy.