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"Back at the Ranch" activities are now ready! You'll find 3-2-1 reflection pages, field study memories pages, and more! We have also added "one pager" enrichment opportunities for 3rd-5th. Check it out on your grade level slide deck below.
"Back at the Ranch" activities are now ready! You'll find 3-2-1 reflection pages, field study memories pages, and more! We have also added "one pager" enrichment opportunities for 3rd-5th. Check it out on your grade level slide deck below.
Transitional Kindergarten Resources
Transitional Kindergarten Resources
Old Trabuco Farm
Old Trabuco Farm
Students get the opportunity to interact with our farm animals and follow clues to find Rosie the Hen. They get the opportunity to do farm chores with our "Old Trabuco" tools and create ladybugs while they learn to classify insects based on their characteristics.
Kindergarten Resources
Kindergarten Resources
Donkey's Party Problem
Donkey's Party Problem
Investigate what living things need to survive, design and build structures to decrease the warming effect of sunlight, and explore weather patterns and concepts. Complete the day with a special donkey celebration!
1st Grade Resources
1st Grade Resources
The Case of the Escape Artist
The Case of the Escape Artist
Investigate plant and animal traits and those passed down to their offspring, light and sound wave exploration & engineering design, all while collecting evidence to determine who is escaping the farm. Our first grade trip also includes a Historic Trabuco Elementary "Old School" session!
2nd Grade Resources
2nd Grade Resources
The Future is Calling
The Future is Calling
Investigate plants, effects of flooding, greenhouse materials, evidence of fast and slow change and that has occured in our natural environment, as well as a visit to our Trabuco Farm. Students work to assist the "ambassador from of future" of Trabuco Canyon through their activities throughout the day.
3rd Grade Resources
3rd Grade Resources
Backyard Engineering
Backyard Engineering
Assess parent and offspring traits to classify living organisms, analyze weather data using meteorologists tools, gather evidence to determine past weather and climate patterns, and design, build, and iterate design of an irrigation system for your backyard garden.
4th Grade Resources
4th Grade Resources
Floods, Soil, and Fossils!
Floods, Soil, and Fossils!
Engage in a activities to gather information to make an evidence-based recommendation on where build homes in the Trabuco Canyon area. They explore the effects of flooding and erosion, collect and analyze soil samples, and use information collected in their fossil dig sites to determine the history of a region and how it has changed over time.
5th Grade - Day 1 Resources
5th Grade - Day 1 Resources
The Case of the Mystery Shadow
The Case of the Mystery Shadow
Gather evidence of shadows and patterns of the day & night sky in our shadow and star lab, hike our local hills to analyze Earth's systems and spheres, and identify substances using physical and chemical properties and reactivity. Students are highly engaged in this mystery and we encourage take the data back to your school site to create an argumentative writing piece using the evidence collected.
5th Grade - Day 2 Resources
5th Grade - Day 2 Resources
It's All Connected
It's All Connected
Our Day 2 trip is a wonderful opportunity for 5th graders to revisit and evaluate science concepts they have learned. Our ecosystems hike takes students into O'Neill Park to take a explore ecosystem interactions, identify food chains and webs of local living organisms, and the relationship of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Students will also practice their engineering design skills through beaver biomimicry. Our farm animal fibers create the perfect opportunity for students to hone their science and engineering practices further through their exploration with microscopes. Finally, students get to engage in building electrical circuits and electromagnets. Teachers often say they love this trip as a review prior to the California Science Test (CAST) each spring.
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