Kindergarden and 1st Grade

Kindergarden

School Workshops are hands-on programs with activities that take place in the museum's education classroom.

Number of Participants: 15 minimum; 30 maximum (students)

Duration: 45 Minutes

Fee: $5 per student (one adult chaperone free for every 5 students)

Explore Animals

Explore the things that make animals the same and different in an investigation of museum specimens and storytime using focused observation and listening skills.

NGSS Science and Engineering Practices: Analyzing and Interpreting Data; NGSS Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

 

NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

NGSS Crosscutting concepts

Patterns

  • Patterns in the natural and human designed world can be observed and used as evidence.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  • Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.10)

Grade 1

School Workshops are hands-on programs with activities that take place in the museum's education classroom.

Number of Participants: 15 minimum; 30 maximum (students)

Duration: 45 Minutes

Fee: $5 per student (one adult chaperone free for every 5 students)

Fossil Fun

This workshop is designed for younger students and provides an introduction to geological time and fossils. Hands-on activities include digging for and identifying fossils, and developing dinosaurs complete with scientific names.

NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas: LS1.A, LS4.A, LS4.D, ESS1.C

NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas

LS1.A: Structure and Function

• All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek, find, and take in food, water and air. (1-LS1-1)

• Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction. (4-LS1-1)

LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity

• Some kinds of plants and animals that once lived on Earth are no longer found anywhere. (3-LS4-1)

• Fossils provide evidence about the types of organisms that lived long ago and also about the nature of their environments. (3-LS4-1)

LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans

• There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water. (2-LS4-1)

ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth

• Some events happen very quickly; others occur very slowly, over a time period much longer than one can observe. (2-ESS1-1)

• Local, regional, and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earth forces, such as earthquakes. The presence and location of certain fossil types indicate the order in which rock layers were formed. (4-ESS1-1)

NGSS Crosscutting concepts

Patterns

• Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification, and they prompt questions about relationships and the factors that influence them.

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

• In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance.

NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

Engaging in argument from evidence.

Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards

Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases. (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.4, 2.4, 3.4, 4.4)