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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.
Field Trips
We offer second and third grade programs aligned with California State Science standards. Upon arrival, students divide into groups, each with its own naturalist, and hike to themed stations along a scenic loop trail. Programs last approximately two-and-a-half hours.
Second Grade — The Earth and Its Changes
Our second grade field trip introduces students to the idea that the surface of the earth changes and is composed of material resources with distinct, useful properties. Heading into The Conservancy, students examine geological formations along the road. Loop stations address topics such as how to distinguish rocks from minerals, qualities of different soils, rock weathering, sand and its uses, and fossil origins.
Third Grade — Adaptations
Our third grade field trip emphasizes adaptations–the structures plants and animals use to survive, grow, and reproduce. Loop stations review basic concepts centering on the interplay between biology and a changing environment, and stress that living things–notably people–can change the environment in ways that benefit some species but may cause others to disappear.
Customized Field Trips
The Conservancy also welcomes inquiries from teachers and parents about customized field trips emphasizing the topic of your choice.
To download a field trip brochure, please click HERE.
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 Babies of Orange County Wilderness (2nd Grade)
Take a slide trip into wild Orange County, where baby animals live. Learn more 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?
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.
View slides of Orange County wildlife as you learn more about these adaptations.
Plants and animals can cause environmental changes which may help some organisms, harm others, and even cause some organisms to
disappear.
Food Webs of Orange County (4th Grade)
Explore food webs and chains in wild Orange County by learning more about its producers, consumers, and decomposers.
All organisms need energy and matter to live and grow.
Plants are the primary source of food chain matter and energy.
Consumers–herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers–are related in food chains and food webs, and often compete for ecosystem resources.
Decomposers–fungi, insects, and microorganisms–recycle matter from dead plants and animals.
Orange County Ecosystems (6th Grade)
Explore ecosystems in Orange County.
Organisms in ecosystems exchange energy and nutrients among themselves and with the environment.
Energy entering the ecosystems as sunlight is transferred by producers into chemical energy through photosynthesis, and then from organism to organism in food webs.
Over time, matter is transferred from one organism to others in the food web, and between organisms and the physical environment.
Populations of organisms can be categorized by the functions they serve in an ecosystem.
The number and type of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on the resources available and abiotic factors, such as quantity of light and water.
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