Field Trip Reservation Information

The Teacher Packet has all the information a teacher needs to get his or her students prepared for their field trip. To reserve your school's field trip, you must call for available dates or fill out and email the inquiry form found on the Contact Page. Once an available date is agreed upon, TWC will hold it for three business days, which will give the teacher time to fill out and fax the Trip Schedule on page 1 of the Teacher Packet. Once the Trip Schedule has been received, TWC will fax a Confirmation to the Authorized Trip Scheduler listed on the form. A field trip date is NOT confirmed for your school until a Trip Schedule is faxed to TWC and the confirmation fax is received by the school. Fill out one Trip Schedule for each date desired. Note: Do not fill out a desired date and fax the Trip Schedule without making an inquiry to check for the date(s) availability.

*Realize our program begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m. with a half-hour lunch break at noon. Reservations must be made for a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 80 students per day. Priority will be given to schools that meet the time and attendance requirements.

Your preparation will be crucial to the success of the program. Planning Your Visit, Teacher Checklist, Standards, Chaperone Requirements, and a Clothing List are a few of the pertinent pages found in the Teacher Packet that will enable you and your students to have a safe, successful, and enjoyable experience. We stand ready to assist you in preparing for this exciting program. Please call (909) 790-3698 with any questions.

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Behold the Beauty

All grade levels also include a Conservation and Appreciation component with topics and activities about saving landscapes, how plants and animals are affected by loss of habitat, and enjoying natures beauty wherever one may be.

Pictured above left are two students building with materials nature has provided. Above right depicts a girl framing a nature scene she believes is beautiful.


Third Grade Program
Students come to appreciate the earth's place in the solar system, with activities that include the earth's position and rotation; how we get time, days, and seasons. The importance of the sun is explored with demonstrations and activities of color separation from light and how light is converted to heat. Other activities include adaptations in animals, micro habitats, pond explorations, and interpretation of daily discoveries.

Fourth Grade Program
Students will be able to distinguish between producers and consumers, and the reasons animals adapt, through a variety of activities that include Food Pyramids, Web of Life, Who Am I?, and Bird Beak Adaptations. Changes in the Land focuses on activities relating to the rock cycle, classification, mineralogy, and man's impact by following an unnatural trail.

Fifth Grade Program
Students focus on our source of local water for quantity and quality, how the water cycle works, our earth as the ultimate filter and the use of scientific equipment for pond assessments. Plant adaptations are realized through experiments, activities, seed dispersal, dichotomous keying, and tree ring studies.

Sixth Grade Program - Available for Limited Dates-see below
Students learn how the earth is constantly changing from the past, to the present, and into the future with folding, faulting, volcanism, plate tectonics, erosion, weathering, plant intrusions, and impact by humans through activities and experiments. Other topics and seasonal activities include insect investigations, sharpening observations skills with a natural evidence trail, the use of divining rods to locate water, and using a MOHS hardness scale to determine what rocks and minerals are present. This program is for elementary schools only, available for limited dates in December and January.

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