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Field Trip Guide: Scale
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Guide highlights: Making Models, Playing by the Rules, Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, and WeatherWise. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets.
This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. It also includes a map that highlights the points of interest. Use this guide to stimulate group conversation, keep track of your program schedule, and list group members and their reactions to their experience.
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| Format | Field Trip Activity |
| Grades | 4 – 8 |
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| Documents | MOS_Scale.pdf |
Field Trip Guide: Scale
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Field Trip Guide: Scale
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Field Trip Guide: Scale
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Exhibit
Exhibit
Grades:
K - Adult
K - Adult
- Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic
- The evidence we collect through the fossil record tells a tantalizingly incomplete and still evolving tale. Here, through fossils and life-size models, visitors get a sense of how paleontologists continue to compile evidence, changing the way we view these extinct animals. Perhaps most emblematic ... (details)
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Exhibit
Exhibit
Grades:
K - Adult
K - Adult
- Making Models
- Scientists use models to better understand the real world, and visitors to this exhibit can use a wide variety of models, scientific and otherwise, to learn and practice some of the basic tools from the scientific toolbox. Models are best known as representatives for physical objects, but they also ... (details)
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Exhibit
Exhibit
Grades:
5 - Adult
5 - Adult
- Seeing Is Deceiving
- Vision is a complex process, and the human brain has developed some very clever shortcuts to help us sort the useful visual information from the useless. Many of the illusions in this exhibit exploit these shortcuts for an entertaining learning experience. Seeing seems to be the ultimate form of understanding, ... (details)
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Exhibit
Exhibit
Grades:
K - 12
K - 12
- WeatherWise
- With engaging interactives and stunning images, this exhibit takes you through the scales of weather: global, national, regional, local, and personal. At the focus of the exhibit is a skill called nowcasting. Even if you've heard a local forecast, you can learn to refine that forecast to predict if ... (details)
