Amazing Animal Adaptations: Orcas, Grades 2-5
In this fun, interactive adventure, your students will participate in a facilitated program highlighting adaptations of animals in six different habitats, including oceans, using Museum collections and visit the Museum’s special exhibition, Orcas: Our Shared Future. Your students will explore how animals use specialized senses and parts of their body to adapt to their environment in the Field Trip Adventure program. Then, students have the opportunity to visit the temporary exhibit to learn about the stunning intelligence and complex social structures of orcas as well as to examine the global movement to protect our ocean ecosystems.
Entrance into the Orcas: Our Shared Future temporary exhibition only included for Field Trip Adventures scheduled between March 15, 2024 and May 24, 2024.
A Spanish speaking bilingual educator may be available upon request. The Museum can also provide Spanish program materials for students and chaperones.
1 chaperone per 10 students is required. Price: $235 per program of up to 32 students and 4 chaperones. Temporary exhibit entrance included.
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