Activity Guide designed by: Rita
Irvin, Elliston Elementary School
Field Trips
Under construction
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Time frame |
Field trip |
Contact |
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Fall , Spring |
Going to
Pandapas Pond – use the on-line field trip guide |
If you need a guide, call the Forest Service (Cindy Schiffer – 552-4641 |
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Fall |
Cave habitats – Dixie Caverns – Carol Zokaites |
Call Kim Lee for contact info. |
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Fall |
Pumpkin Patch – grow
a pumpkin |
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Fall |
WDBJ
– field trip with Robin Reed in Rke. (K-5) |
Call WDBJ (344-7000; ask to contact Robin Reed at (weather@wdbj7.com) |
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Fall |
Forestry Department at Tech : 231-8820 |
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Fall |
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Winter |
Solar System – Planetarium,
Center in the Square |
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Winter |
Alma Robinson (alms@vt.edu) |
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Kindergarten |
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Grade 1 |
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Grade 2 |
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Grade 3 |
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Grade 4 |
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Grade 5 |
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K-5 ( see details on page 2) |
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Under Construction
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Concept |
Grade |
Activity |
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Measurement |
K-5 |
Build a weather station –outside classroom; any measurement in Everyday Mathematics |
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Concept |
Grade |
Activity |
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Simple machines |
3 |
Toys, building with Lego/Dacta (expensive) |
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Electricity |
4 |
Lori Marsh: 4-H ; contact 4-H 540-382-5790 - Main Office |
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Concept |
Grade(s) |
Activity |
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Properties of Matter |
1,2,5 |
Jeanine Eddleton – Chemistry Magic Show |
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Properties of matter – color, shape, texture,
size |
K |
The school garden – plant flowers by color, include rocks, etc. |
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Properties of Matter – change of state |
2 |
make ice cream melt chocolate make ice pops make a cloud chamber call Kim for help if desired |
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The water cycle |
2 |
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Concept |
Grade |
Activity |
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Life Processes of plants and animals |
K |
Pumpkin Patch – grow pumpkins |
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Functional parts of plants |
1 |
Create a school garden |
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Life needs |
1 |
Virginia Tech Museum of Natural History (animal kits, Tech grad speakers: see handout) |
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Life Cycles (Interrelationships) |
2 |
Observe the life cycle of a flower, frog, butterfly, grasshopper outside or in the classroom |
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Behavioral/physical adaptations |
3 |
Virginia Tech Museum of natural History(animal kits, Tech grad speakers: see handout) |
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Plant anatomy, life processes |
4 |
Build a school garden |
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Concept |
Grade |
Activity |
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System interdependence/habitats |
2 |
Pandapas Pond; Kits from Virginia Tech museum; Cave habitats – Dixie Caverns – Carol Zokaites |
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Community relationships |
3 |
Schoolyard garden; kits from Virginia Tech museum |
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Ecosystem interaction |
4 |
Pandapas Pond; Schoolyard garden; kits from Virginia Tech museum |
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Concept |
Grade |
Activity |
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Weather |
2, 4 |
Using weather gauge |
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Soil |
3 |
Pandapas Pond; Schoolyard garden; kits from Virginia Tech museum |
Earth Patterns, Cycles, and Change
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Concept |
Grade |
Activity |
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Weather/seasonal changes |
2 |
Pandapas Pond; Schoolyard garden; kits from Virginia Tech museum |
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Solar System |
5 |
Solar System – Planetarium, Radford University |
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Earth’s surface |
5 |
Rock kits (museum); visit the Geology Museum at Tech |
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Concept |
Grade |
Activity |
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Plant and Animal Products |
K-4 |