In the Classroom
Many of our field trips and Gross Out Camp programs can be converted to interactive design-thinking
classroom programs. We can also bring in live animal shows.
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Ask about our writing programs with an international award-winning professional writer.
Fees are $60 for the first hour, $50 per hour for each same day program. Animals programs start at $100 per hour and $60 per same day/place program. .Email Programs@FreshAirFamily.org or call 205-540-6642.
Seed Party
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Your seeds need to survive! How can they disperse across a "river" of tissue paper?
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Design a way for seeds to travel based on how plants spread.
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Invent a new way using design-thinking.
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Using pipe-cleaners, tissue paper, marbles, gloves and more to create dispersal systems.
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Warning: Disco music has been known to play during this exercise!
Standards:
Physical Science 5.7
Life Science 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.11, 5.8
Zoo Crew
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See an animal show with all kinds of gross animals from snakes to lizards to hissing cockroaches!
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Students can touch and hold these animals for full engagement.
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Lessons on adaptations, habitats, beak adaptations, and more.
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We have a program for special needs, even for self-contained classes.
Standards:
Life Science: K.3, K4, 1.6, 3.5, 3.11,4.11
Slime Time
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Science experiments engage the students by making goo/slime.
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Creating polymers into a slimy mixture.
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Students create a solid that can be shaped into a variety of forms.
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We play the polymer/monomer game.
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A second experiment mixes water and sugar to create liquids of varying densities.
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Each mix sports a different color to demonstrate its density.
Standards:
Physical Science: 2.1, 2.3, 5.1, 5.4
Reporters at the scene
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Reporters at the Scene have to create a scene from a list of possibilities, describe it and report on the facts.
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Work in groups to create a variety of scenarios.
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Craft a scenario to share with the whole group.
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After each of the scenarios, each student will write a news story or essay on the events created by the other groups.
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Focuses on creative story writing, storytelling and factual writing.
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Taught by an internationally award-winning reporter.
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Adjustable to ages and grades.
Standards: Vocabulary, Phonics, Comprehension, Creative and factual writing, Interviewing skills, Sequenced events, Explanatory and informative writing, Collaboration.
Word Play!
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Word Play starts with a list of silly sounding, but real words, that have fallen out of common use, such as bumblepuppy.
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Work in teams to come up with a definition of the word and must use it in a sentence.
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After a series of words and definitions are finished, the students will pick words from the list to make up a story.
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Teams are scored on originality and how close they come to the original definition.
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Fun for most ages.
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Taught by an award-winning professional writer.
Standards: Vocabulary, Collaboration, Creative Writing, Phonics, Spelling, Grammar.