Field Trip Programs: Grade 5

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.

No matter what your schoolyard looks like, it is a unique ecosystem where plants and animals interact with each other and their environment.

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.