SECOND GRADE FIELD TRIPS:

• Have to Have a Habitat: After reading Annie Mazer’s book, “The Salamander Room,” students will explore the basic components of a healthy habitat along with forces that may cause a habitat to change. They’ll also explore the behavioral and physical adaptations animals use to help them survive those changes and create an imaginative piece of artwork showing what they’ve learned.

• Lemonade Economics: Using the book “Lemonade in Winter,” students will learn the differences between natural, capital, and human resources. Students will explore the concept of bartering through hands-on activities and will also have time to explore the Museum’s “Cash Flow” exhibit.

• What’s the Attraction?: Find out how much fun the world can be when you think like a scientist!  Students will discover the power of magnets through hands-on investigations into such concepts as magnetic fields, attraction and repulsion, force, north and south poles, and the magnetic compass.