4th Grade
Please select the Coastal Education Program you booked for your trip to the Living Coast. We've created activities designed to enhance your students' learning experience both before and after your scheduled field trip. Also included is a program description, standards addressed and a sample of the daily schedule.
Geology is fun when you come to the Living Coast. Come learn what processes affect our landscape with interactive weathering and erosion experiments. The rock cycle lab is sure to inspire the geologist in each of your students as they create each type of rock with candy! Will they eat a metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous rock at the end of this fun activity?
Get your hands all scaly and slimy with this dissection. Students will learn about the ins and outs of what makes a fish a fish and how their internal anatomy is really not that different than ours! Through this fun, interactive dissection, students explore the internal and external parts that help a fish survive in a marine environment. *Extra $20/class fee for mackerel
Kumeyaay Native Americans and Spanish Explores have used plants in this area for hundreds of years in many different ways. Become an Ethnobotanist and examine the uses of native and non-native species in our state’s history. Students assemble a small botanical collection and study how special structures help the native plants of the Sweetwater Marsh Refuge survive.
Why do birds fly, fish swim, and crabs crawl? Discover, through up-close animal encounters, what structures help saltmarsh organisms survive. Students will take a hike and observe wildlife found right here on this south bay wetland! They will be challenged by both familiar and unfamiliar structures.