Diamond Valley Lake

Vanessa Garcia03/13/2013

Field Trip

Subject: Science & Geography Grade level: 3rd grade Length of Session: 4 hours Field trip: Diamond Valley lake museum

Science State Standard

Life Science: (3) Adaptations in physical structure or behavior

may improve an organisms chance for survival. As a basis for understanding this concept:

(d) Student know when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations.

(e) Student know that some kind of organism that once live on Earth have completely disappeared and that some of those resembled others that are alive today.

National Geography Standards

Physical Systems: (7) The physical processes that shape the

patterns of Earths surface. The use of Geography: (17) How to apply Geography to interpret the

past.

Introduction Third grade students normally study about the

dinosaurs and other kind of animals that used to exist in this world and now they have extinct. Before we take the students to the fieldtrip we are going to discuss several things about the past. Some of the questions we are going to discuss are what was the environment like before people lived here? Which plants and animals used to lived here? Has the environment changed over time and how?

We are also going to talk about fossils because students need to know that not only bones are consider a fossil. A fossil is any remnant of a plant or animal that has been preserved in the Earth for a long period of time. Just by looking at the fossils you can tell how long it has exist here in the world.

List of materials

Note book Pencil Lunch Money (Not required) Map of the museum

Field Trip

After having a lecture in the class about the different animals that used to exist along time ago and what a fossil is. The entire class is going to go to a field trip to the Diamond Valley Lake museum in Hemet. This is a great museum for children to visit because it gives students an idea of how the world used to be and how it has change throughout the years.

Follow up Activity For the next day of class students are going to talk

about everything they saw and what they learn after looking to all those stuff in the museum. Then, the students are going to take out their notebook in where they took notes and in small groups they are going to work in a worksheet that has different questions about the museum.

Then for homework each student is going to try their best and draw a map of the entire museum or just how to get to their favorite part of the museum. And at the bottom of the map they are going to write a paragraph of why that part was their favorite.

RubricRubric Student Name:

Completed Assignment Partially completed Not completed

Sketch Notebook with notes

Map of the museum with paragraph

Class assignment questions

Total points: /9

Student Evaluation: I will use a rubric to grade the work of the Students and see if they completed and understood the assignments.