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Field Trip Call Center hours: 9am-5pm Monday - Friday, 9am-3pm Saturday and 10am - 3pm Sunday.
- African Overview
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Trek Africa's three biome in the Museum’s
gigantic doramas: searing deserts, vast savannas and lush rain forests. 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
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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
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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
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Using hands-on materials and role-play, learn about butterfly metamorphosis and life stages, body structure, survival and defenses. 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
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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 life in a desert and a temperate
rain forest 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
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Using artifacts and clothing, discover how the American Indians of two different regions used the resources in their surroundings to meet their needs of food, shelter, clothing, transportation, working and celebration. 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 - Rain Forest
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Walk through a simulated rain forest floor and canopy and learn about 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