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Spring Field Trips Students will learn and have loads of fun on our spring field trips to the farm. Use this field trip as a review before SOL testing or afterwards as a reward that can be coupled with some fun. Field trips are held from Mid-April through May on a first come-first serve basis. There is a qualified staff member at each lab station to assist the children. Lab programs are age appropriate and developed around the topics listed, but may be tailored to the teacher's specific needs if requested. Our spring offering varies from fall in that the program is more structured and students will move from one lab to another with specific time limits at each station. As a result, student numbers will be limited so please book early! Learning Lab #1 - How things work around the farm. See how wheels and cogs and gears all make work on the farm and in everyday life easier - then ride the carousel for a bigger than life example of gears in action! Learning Lab #2 - Plants rock! Age appropriate lessons include the parts of the plant and which parts we eat, where our food comes from, and how plants grow. Learning Lab #3 - Grow your own! Students will plant (to take home) their own seeds and learn to plant seedlings in their own gardens or containers. Older students will have lessons on how plants reproduce and take cuttings from plants to take home. Other division techniques are included. Learning Lab #4 - Life on the farm! Take a hay ride around the farm and see the animals. The whole farm becomes a learning lab for this session. Younger students will enjoy the animals - older ones will learn about crop rotation, soil erosion, and how all the activities on the farm work together to produce livestock and crops to feed them. Time as available - visit the play areas - 60 ft. slide, sandbox, barnyard golf, bowling, and rubber ducky races. Please allow a minimum of 2 hours for this field trip, excluding snacks or lunch. You are welcome to make this a full day trip if you like so that more free or fun time can be included. Schools are welcome to bring snacks or lunch and picnic tables are available. Students will take home individual jiffy pots that they have planted with seeds and seedlings, and an activity booklet. Each class will have the opportunity to take back to school a teaching unit that includes plants, lesson plans on measuring growth and care of plants. Cost is $5.50 per student - teachers and chaperones are free of charge.
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