Educational Tours Grades 1-3

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African Overview
Trek Africa's three biomes: searing deserts, vast savannas and lush rainforests, in the Museum's gigantic dioramas. Learn about the continent's many different cultures and animals by handling real skins, cultural artifacts and adornments.
WMAS: Social Studies A4.4; B.4.1, Language Arts C4.2, 3
Animals of Wisconsin
Examine animal defense and survival tactics by comparing how they use senses to the way humans use tools. Touch furs, beaks and feet of familiar animals and birds that live in Wisconsin's backyards as we progress through the Wisconsin woodlands galleries, and learn about their diets, habits and habitats.
WMAS: Science F.4.1, Language Arts C4.2, 3
Arctic Life
Learn about the harsh physical environment of the Arctic and how the Inuits survive in regions of sub-zero temperatures. Explore animal habitats and how they adapt to their surroundings. Visit an igloo and handle animal skins and cultural artifacts as you learn about Artic creatures' struggle for survival.
WMAS: Social Studies A.4.4; B.4.1,10, Language Arts C4.2, 3
Butterfly Science
Using hands-on materials and role-play, learn about butterfly metamorphosis and life stages, body structure, survival and defenses in the children's butterfly wing. Then experience the flutter of live butterflies around you in the Puelicher butterfly vivarium.
WMAS: Science F.4.1,2, Language Arts C4.2, 3
Indians of the Southwest and Northwest Coast
Travel through our exhibit galleries to discover how tribes from two very different biomes adapted to their environments to meet survival needs of food, shelter, clothing and transportation. Learn about the daily lives of the Hopi, Navajo, Kwakiutl and Tlingit as we discuss customs and examine artifacts.
WMAS: Social Studies A.4; B.4.1; E.4.3, Language Arts C4.2, 3
Indians of the Wisconsin Woodland and Plains
Using artifacts and clothing, discover how the American Indians of these regions used the resources in their surroundings to meet their needs of food, shelter, clothing, transportation, working and celebrating together. Learn about the powwow, rice gathering, bison hunting, wigwam construction and more.
WMAS: Social Studies A.4.4; B.4.1, Language Arts C4.2, 3
Rainforest
Walk through a simulated rainforest floor and canopy and discover the incredible diversity of life in the world's richest land habitat. Observe the great Kapok tree, toucans and macaws, tank bromeliads, howler monkeys, sloths and frogs. Compare our temperate forest to the tropical rainforest, discover environmental niches for plants and animals and role play plant-animal interdependence.
WMAS: Science F.4.1,2, Language Arts C4.2, 3