Natural Sciences Day Expanded!

Now available for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5
···Dates and cost for 2011 available soon···

We are pleased to announce the expansion of our Natural Sciences Day Program. Previously designed only for Grades 3-5, we now offer a program for Grades K-2!

Natural Sciences Days provide a unique opportunity for school children to experience a “living laboratory” to enhance their learning. The program includes:

• 2 Presentation Stations where local companies and volunteers make grade appropriate theater-style presentations in Life and Earth Sciences
• 2 Investigation Stations where students explore our environment in grade appropriate scavenger hunts to locate natural and man-made adaptations of various plants and trees
• 2 Experimentation Stations where students perform grade appropriate science experiments related to the natural world
• Workbooks for each student provided on arrival (PDF copies available online for teachers’ classroom prep)
• Nature Detective completion certificates for each student with a discount offer to return on a public operating day
• Hot lunch: hot dogs, potato chips, vegetarian spaghetti, fresh cut fruits and soda

Natural Sciences Days are educational days, the park will not open to the general public and restaurants and stores will not be in operation. Select rides will run after the education program concludes.

Sample Schedule:

• 8:30-9am · Registration and Workbook distribution
• 9am-12pm · Students rotate through 6 education stations
• 12-12:30pm · Lunch
• 12:30-2pm · Select rides open just for fun!
• 2pm · Day concludes

Workbooks:
Grades 3-5
Grades K-2

Note: The workbook PDF files are very large (over 5MB each); so PLEASE be patient with the download. Thank you!