| Field_Trip | Grade_Level | Subject | Description | Cost | Notes |
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| Field_Trip | Grade_Level | Subject | Description | Cost | Notes |
| Adler Planetarium | | |
Our programs feature real scientists and historians working in the field. Each program is aligned with National and Illinois Education Standards. Podcasts (link to Podcast web site ? www.adlerpodcast.com)
We deliver our videoconferences to audiences all over the world. Any school or library that has a videoconference system can connect with us to receive programs. Anyone with access to an mp3 player such as an iPod or iTunes can access our podcasts free of charge. | Varies with topic | Katie Peterson
Distance Learning Educator
kpeterson@adlerplanetarium.org
312?322?0333
Customers are asked to schedule videoconferences through www.cilc.org or www.noodletrip.com. Both offer free registration.
With each registration Adler staff will provide support for a test connection and limited curricular support. |
| Ask a Space Science Expert | k-12 | space |  View More...
Audience: Education: Kindergarten Grade(s): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Curriculum Director Gifted and Talented Coordinator Teacher College/University
Description: Having access to an expert in the field of space science and astronomy can be easily achieved through this videoconference connection. Our experts are available for your students to ask questions present their projects or discuss topics they are researching. Since this offering is flexible in topic communication between teachers and Adler staff prior to the connection will be necessary. | $100-125 | Katie Peterson
Distance Learning Educator
kpeterson@adlerplanetarium.org
312?322?0333
Customers are asked to schedule videoconferences through www.cilc.org or www.noodletrip.com. Both offer free registration.
With each registration Adler staff will provide support for a test connection and limited curricular support. |
| Science Through Arts at Adler | 5-12 | space |
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Description: How are art and astronomy intertwined? How has the depiction of the night sky changed over time?
The Adler's world?class astronomical artifact collection becomes a focus for the answers. Adler's own historians and astronomers bridge your students interest in the arts to the rewarding study of history and astronomy in this interactive program. | $100-125 | Katie Peterson
Distance Learning Educator
kpeterson@adlerplanetarium.org
312?322?0333
Customers are asked to schedule videoconferences through www.cilc.org or www.noodletrip.com. Both offer free registration.
With each registration Adler staff will provide support for a test connection and limited curricular support. |
| Adventure Science Center | | | Our dynamic experienced educators will share educational and fun science activities with your students and engage them in active learning experiences.
Choose a program from the list below. You may request a 25 or 45 minute version of each program. after you reserve your Electronic Field Trip you will receive a pre-conference guide with enrichment activities and instructions for making a test connection. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
| 800 Fort Negley Blvd.
Nashville TN 37203
(615) 862-5160
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| Botany Lab | 1-6 | Science
| Cell Structure and Function Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment Food Production and Energy for Life Grades 1-6
NEW! Lean the main parts of a flowering plant and each part's function. Investigate flower parts in a virtual flower dissection. Then have a close-up look at plant cells and pollen viewed under a microscope lens. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| Adler Planetarium | | |
Our programs feature real scientists and historians working in the field. Each program is aligned with National and Illinois Education Standards. Podcasts (link to Podcast web site ? www.adlerpodcast.com)
We deliver our videoconferences to audiences all over the world. Any school or library that has a videoconference system can connect with us to receive programs. Anyone with access to an mp3 player such as an iPod or iTunes can access our podcasts free of charge. | Varies with topic | Katie Peterson
Distance Learning Educator
kpeterson@adlerplanetarium.org
312?322?0333
Customers are asked to schedule videoconferences through www.cilc.org or www.noodletrip.com. Both offer free registration.
With each registration Adler staff will provide support for a test connection and limited curricular support. |
| Ask a Space Science Expert | k-12 | space | View More...
Audience: Education: Kindergarten Grade(s): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Curriculum Director Gifted and Talented Coordinator Teacher College/University
Description: Having access to an expert in the field of space science and astronomy can be easily achieved through this videoconference connection. Our experts are available for your students to ask questions present their projects or discuss topics they are researching. Since this offering is flexible in topic communication between teachers and Adler staff prior to the connection will be necessary. | $100-125 | Katie Peterson
Distance Learning Educator
kpeterson@adlerplanetarium.org
312?322?0333
Customers are asked to schedule videoconferences through www.cilc.org or www.noodletrip.com. Both offer free registration.
With each registration Adler staff will provide support for a test connection and limited curricular support. |
| Science Through Arts at Adler | 5-12 | space |
Audience: Education: Grade(s): 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Description: How are art and astronomy intertwined? How has the depiction of the night sky changed over time?
The Adler's world?class astronomical artifact collection becomes a focus for the answers. Adler's own historians and astronomers bridge your students interest in the arts to the rewarding study of history and astronomy in this interactive program. | $100-125 | Katie Peterson
Distance Learning Educator
kpeterson@adlerplanetarium.org
312?322?0333
Customers are asked to schedule videoconferences through www.cilc.org or www.noodletrip.com. Both offer free registration.
With each registration Adler staff will provide support for a test connection and limited curricular support. |
| Adventure Science Center | | | Our dynamic experienced educators will share educational and fun science activities with your students and engage them in active learning experiences.
Choose a program from the list below. You may request a 25 or 45 minute version of each program. after you reserve your Electronic Field Trip you will receive a pre-conference guide with enrichment activities and instructions for making a test connection. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
| 800 Fort Negley Blvd.
Nashville TN 37203
(615) 862-5160
|
| Botany Lab | 1-6 | Science
| Cell Structure and Function Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment Food Production and Energy for Life Grades 1-6
NEW! Lean the main parts of a flowering plant and each part's function. Investigate flower parts in a virtual flower dissection. Then have a close-up look at plant cells and pollen viewed under a microscope lens. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| Bone-a-fied Facts | k-12 | Science
| Anatomy and Physiology Personal Health & Wellness Grades K-12
Get the bone-a-fied facts about the skeletal and muscular systems. A close-up view of real bones artificial joints and other demonstrators make for an informative adventure into the human body! A few experiments will have your students stretching their muscles and their minds.Sponsored by HCA Foundation | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| Dinosaur Discoveries | | Science
| Biological Change Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things Grades K - 5
Scientists draw conclusions about the structure and behavior of dinosaurs by comparing their fossils to observations of animals living today. We will use exciting dinosaur fossil replicas and real animal artifacts and learn how to think like paleontologists! | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| Magnets to Motors | 4-8 | Science
| Energy Grades 4-8
Demonstrations with magnets and electromagnetic forces include alnico magnets a 3-D magnetic field view box powerful neodymium magnets and our 6' tall light-up motor. See how electricity can be used to make an electromagnet and how a magnet can be used to generate electricity. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| The Eyes Have It | 4-12 | Science
| Diversity & Adaptation among Living Things 5.0 Grades 4 - 12
Take a close-up virtual tour of a real cow eye to discover various aspects of human eye anatomy in this cow eye dissection. Explore how the components work together with the brain to allow for sight. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| Space in Motion | 4-8 | Science
| Forces and Motion Earth and Its Place in the Universe Grades 4 - 8
How is a spaceship launched into orbit? Why do astronauts and objects in orbit float around? Do Newton's Laws of Motion work even in space? Demonstrations address these questions and give your students a better idea of how objects in motion behave on Earth as well as in space. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| What's the Matter? | 3-8 | | Structures and Properties of Matter Grades 3 - 8
Learn about the physical properties of states of matter in fun demonstrations and exciting experiments using liquid nitrogen. Become atoms in role-playing activities and see how atoms move differently in a solid liquid gas and plasma. Materials fee of $20 is required. | 25 minute program: $95
45 minute program: $150
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| Alaska SeaLife Center | | | Visit Alaska! Using interactive two-way video conferencing equipment your students can expand their knowledge through live multi-media presentations including meeting animal ?guests? exploring our exhibits talking with researchers and animal caretakers and completing hands-on activities. Using Inquiry-based learning each conference will also utilize research and rehabilitation programs happening right now at the SeaLife Center. | Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| Beaks Bills and Burrows: Birds of Alaska?s Resurrection Bay | k-3 | Marine | Discover what makes a bird a bird. How do some birds spend all their time in cold ocean waters? Learn about seabird structure adaptations and habitat. Students will use different beak types to ?eat? different foods and experience how these differences affect Alaskan birds. Watch bird behaviors for clues to the lives of these interesting animals. Observe our avian habitat to observe seabirds flying above and below the water. Find out what you can do to protect these animals. | Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| Alaskan Tide Pool Travels | 1-3 | Marine | Take a walk on the Alaskan coastline. As we journey down the beach we will experience the elements that create our oceans and their inhabitants. We will use clues to discover and learn about the creatures that make this special area their home. We will visit with our touch tank ?animal guests? and explore research conducted here at the SeaLife Center on Dungeness Crabs.
| Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| Marine Mammal Adaptations | 1-4 | Marine | How are so many animals able to live in cold Alaskan waters? Students will experience the diverse animal population of the ocean while learning about adaptations that allow them to survive in their harsh environment. Using the scientific method students will test blubber as an insulator. With an opportunity to ?dress-up? like a marine mammal students will better understand adaptations. Students will also learn the characteristics of mammals.
| Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| Eat or Be Eaten in Alaska | 4-6 | Marine | Every day in Alaska animals face the struggle to eat and survive. Students will learn about the energy transfer and food webs associated with many Alaskan animal species. We will create our own food chains and observe different ?links of the chain? feeding. We will look at a study of orca and sea lion eating habits being conducted here at the center.
| Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| Living in the Ring of Fire: Earthquakes Volcanoes and Glaciers in Alaska | 5-8 | Marine | View More...The landscape in Alaska is constantly changing. Discover what it is like to live in this ever changing area and how these changes impact the rest of the environment and animal habitats. Track recordab le changes in landscape and weather. View the beauty of the glacier carved Kenai Fjords. Students will experience glacial succession by putting events in order on a timeline of natural history. From fireweed to lichens and alders to sub climax forests to spruces students will travel through a glacier landscape. What is a moraine a crevasse or glacial flour? How have earthquakes and volcanoes created the Alaskan landscape? How are these areas affected by man? Find out when you ?visit? the ring of fire. | Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| The Scoop on Poop | 6-12 | Marine | View More...Alaska SeaLife center researchers need your help. Why is the Steller sea lion population declining? Environment? Pollution? Diet? How do scientists learn what animals put into their bodies without watching them eat? They get the ?scoop on poop?. Students will use the scientific method to begin to answer some of these questions. By dissecting sea lion scat students will discover how scientists find clues to animal diet and foraging behavior. Students will determine the species weight and size of fish the sea lion has been feasting on. We will make use of actual satellite data on the distribution and movement of Steller sea lions and their behavior on remote rookeries. | Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| Alaskan Marine Science Careers | 6-12 | Marine | Researchers veterinarians animal trainers educators exhibit designers marketing specialists and interpreters are just a few of the jobs at the Alaska SeaLife Center and other zoos and aquariums across the country. Find out through live interviews and question and answer segments what it is like to work in Alaska every day. Also through hands on activities students will experience what it is like to work in one of these positions | Not listed on Website | Rachel Simon Distance Learning Specialist
rachel_simon@alaskasealife.org or (907) 224-6300 x7900 |
| Albany Institute of History & Art | 3-12 | History
Art | The Albany Institute's lessons are exciting and engaging real-time interactions between schools and the museum?s educators using objects images and lively inquiry-based teaching methods to offer students virtual field trips focusing on the museum's s | $125.00 teacher workshops-$100.00.? The school pays connection fees. | Reservations are required at least two weeks in advance for all Videoconference lessons and Virtual Teacher Workshops. ? |
| The Serious and the Smirk
| 3-8 | History
Art | Portraits reveal a great deal about the sitter the artist and the cultural context in which they were created. The Albany Institute?s rich portrait collection allows students to learn about history and material culture through body language clothing setting and accessories. | | |
| Traders and Culture: Colonial America
| 3-8 | History
Art | The lives of people who settled in the Hudson Valley in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and the Native Americans who lived along side them are illuminated for students through the exploration of the Albany Institute?s collection of paintings account books furniture ceramics maps metal ware documents tools and more. | | |
| Struggle for the Vote: New York Women
| 9-12 | History
Art | Focusing on Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucy Burns and the life of Albany artist and activist Alice Morgan Wright students will explore the difficult path women forged to earn the right to vote. Objects images and documents for the Albany Institute?s collection will illuminate this story of struggle and persistence | | |
| The Civil War | 8-12 | History
Art | Using primary sources images and objects from the Albany Institute's collection students will be introduced to a major conflict in American History the Civil War. This lesson focuses on how the Civil War affected daily life in America including the art material culture and political atmosphere of our country. | | |
