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Get young people excited about and engaged with Orange County Wildlife!
The Conservancy offers both school assemblies and field trips. We also pair an assembly with a field trip into a comprehensive program.
For pricing and sign-up, please contact Program Director Emily Igarashi.
Click HERE for a downloadable, two-page Field Trip Release Form to be signed by all attendees.
(Parents/Guardians must sign on behalf of students.)
Click HERE for the Spanish version of the Field Trip Release Form.
Field Trips
On a school field trip to The Conservancy, students will have fun while learning in a native outdoor setting. Field trip highlights include a visit to a 500 year old “Mother Oak” tree, giant woodrat nests, seasonal displays of wildflowers, decoding animal tracks, and observing harvester ants at work. We offer several field trip themes, each keyed to a specific set of California Science Standards. Programs last approximately two-and-a-half hours.
To download a School Field Trip Brochure, please click HERE.
Second Grade — The Earth and Its Changes
Students learn to distinguish rocks from minerals, compare soil types and compositions, discover surprising uses of minerals, simulate and observe natural erosion, and excavate their very own fossil. Students will view the results of erosion on an abandoned clay mine while hiking up a steep hill. Students also “dig” back in time while learning about changes in the earth’s crust.
Covers CA Earth Science Standards 2a–2e. |
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Third Grade — Adaptations
Students learn about plant, insect, bird, and other animal adaptations while hiking a trail which traverses four distinct native habitats. Students get hands-on experience with binoculars, insect sweep nets, and plant measurement equipment. The field trip includes a surprise hands-on encounter with a native animal. Optional “Adaptations” school assembly provides helpful
“preloading.”
Covers CA Life Science Standards 3a–3d. |
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Fourth Grade & Fifth Grade — Open Space
This multi-part program highlights the effects of human choices on the environment. Students learn where urban water comes from, where trash ends up, and the effects of roads, buildings and lights on natural open space. The field trip trail leads students through four distinct native habitats. At wayside science stations, students conduct a water filtering experiment, learn about decomposers, food chains and food webs, and explore the diversity of plant populations. Students engage in critical thinking as they consider how their own personal choices affect the environment. Program provides an effective review of 4th and 5th grade science standards.
Covers CA Science Standards 4.2.a–c, 4.3.b, 4.3.c, 4.6.a–d, 4.6.f and 5.3.d/e, 5.6.f/g |
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Customized Field Trips
The Conservancy also welcomes inquiries from teachers and parents about customized field trips emphasizing the topic of your choice.
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Assemblies
Let us share some amazing slides and stories about local wildlife!
Enjoy close views of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds taken by professional wildlife photographer Richard Jackson. Our presentations address the life science strand of the California State Science Standards and were designed by educators, biologists, and naturalists.
The Birds, Bees and Baby Animals of Orange County (2nd Grade)
Take a trip to where baby animals live in wild Orange County. Learn about the life cycles of different local animals, including butterflies, beetles, and frogs. Learn how some organisms reproduce offspring which resemble both parents and each other, whereas other animals go through distinctly different stages as they develop. Can you match Orange County wild animal babies to their parents?
Program lasts 45 minutes and covers CA Life Science Standards 2a-d & 2f.
Adaptations of Orange County Wildlife (3rd Grade)
All plants and animals need food, water, shelter, and space to survive. Orange County plants and animals have developed adaptations which help them obtain these things from their local environment.
Students view a visual presentation of adaptations including silent flight, warning coloration, and blood squirting which distracts would-be predators.
Plants and animals can cause environmental changes which may help some organisms, harm others, and even cause some organisms to
disappear.
Program lasts 50 minutes and covers CA Life Science Standards 3a-d.
Open Space (4th & 5th Grade)
This presentation highlights the effects of human choices on the environment. Students learn where urban water comes from, where trash ends up, and the effects of roads, buildings and lights on natural open space, decomposers, food chains & webs, and plant diversity of plant populations. Provides an effective review of 4th and 5th grade science standards.
Program lasts 50 minutes and covers CA Science Standards 4.2.a–c, 4.3.b, 4.3.c, 4.6.a–d, 4.6.f and 5.3.d/e, 5.6.f/g.
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