Field Trips

• Scheduled field trips will be in person at the Paul Smith Children’s Village.
• Please refer to the Field Trip Menu link for a listing of illustrative programs offered.
• $50 per class, 45 minutes.
• Classroom seats 42 students.
• Field trips are conducted at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
• On September 17, 2025, we scheduled our last open field trip date for the academic school year.
• Requests for field trips open July 1, 2026.

Physical Science

• Energy & Waves: Explore light and sound energy and the anatomy of a wave with experiments and crafts. Learn about vibration, light, reflection, refraction, waves, amplitude, and frequency.
• Scientific Method & Design: Conduct an experiment to explore the scientific method and catapults and force, or turbines and wind energy.
• States of Matter: Learn about states and properties of matter with soda experiments and bags of water.

Life Science

• Habitats: Learn about what animals need from their environments and how they can change their environment to meet their needs. We’ll explore life cycles, ecosystems, and how animals impact their community.
• Animal Classification & Biomimicry: Explore types of animals including reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. Experiment with how humans can learn from animals to solve problems using biomimicry and create their own design.
• Pollination & Plant Growth: Learn about plant life cycles and seeds, roots, stems, flowers, fruits, cones, and pollination before creating a seed necklace to watch a plant’s life cycle unfold.
• Adaptations: Students will learn about natural selection, adaptations, genetics, and behaviors that shape which animals survive. We’ll explore how animals have changed over time and play a game to give them a bird’s-eye view of adaptation.

Earth Science

• Solar System: Create a scale model of the solar system while learning about rotation, revolution, orbits, seasons, moon phases, and the planets in the solar system.
• Rock Cycle, Soil, & Landforms: Learn about the rocks, soil, and land features that make up our planet. Learn about Earth’s anatomy and what makes up soil through soil painting. Use sand to explore mountains, plateaus, plains, valleys, and canyons while learning about geologic time, weathering, and erosion.
• Water Cycle: Move through the water cycle as a single drop of water. Learn about weather, climate, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, and different stores of water.
• Fossils & Paleobotany: Travel to the past to learn about extinct plants and animals, geologic time, fossils, and how they are created. Students will create a fossil of their own.
• Management & Conservation of Natural Resources: Learn about natural resources, extraction, sustainability, systems, and Earth’s spheres. Explore how we can use and protect Earth’s resources.