Field Trip Programs: Grade 3

Using the Hitchcock Center’s skull and mounted animal collection, students will study the characteristics and adaptations of local animals.

Students will learn about how natural systems can inform human innovation as they explore the building’s water, waste and energy systems.

Just as each neighborhood has its own needs and inhabitants, each habitat has its own animals, plants, and interactions.

Students will learn about the science of entomology through a live insect lab, and will collect insects, and their non-insect relatives, in various habitats on our trails.

Students will explore the diversity of life on their school grounds by observing, collecting and recording data.

Students will collect and observe a diversity of fascinating animals and plants whose adaptations to living in water are truly astonishing.

Through a variety of activities, students will learn about plant life cycles, and the energy transfer through the food web from producers to consumers to decomposers.