Note: I reserve the right to make changes to schedule.
Agricultural Week
BIG questions: How do plants use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs? What are the big interdependent relationships in ecoysystems: animals, plants and their environments?
Day 1
Students will be lead on a tour of the Ventura Botanical Gardens. Students will describe and write about agriculture. They will start a project on The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Day 2
Visiting an orange farm while learning about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Students will learn about the process of bringing oranges to people. They will learn about ratios and compare quantities. They will measure quantities directly and indirectly. Students will be visiting the Cornejo Farm in Fillmore. for a behind the scenes look at the stand. Students will squeeze their own orange juice and calculate rates of orange juice.
Day 3
Students will honey taste at Bennett's Honey Farm. Students will learn about bees and explore calculations about them. Students will describe honeys orally and in written form. They will explore rates with bee production amounts. Students will play camp games at the Lake Piru Recreational Area. They will learn about the effects of the draught and the changes occurring because of the climate.
Day 4
Students will visit the Underwood Farms in Moorpark. Students will receive a farm tour and learn about the different fruits and vegetables grown. Students will sample fruits and vegetables grown at Underwood Farms.
Day 5
A docent will tour the Agricultural Museum of Ventura County in Santa Paula with the students. We will write about agriculture and create a booklet about what we learned.
History Week
Day 1
Students will visit Rancho Camulos Museum in Piru. Students will learn about early California dwellers and their customs. Students will walk through an early California Rancho.
Day 2
Students will visit the Museum of Ventura County and learn about the history and cultures of Ventura County.
Day 3
Students will visit the Chumash History Museum in Thousand Oaks. They will learn about the native people in Ventura County. They will learn about the Chumash culture. Students will walk through a recreated Chumash settlement.
Day 4
Students will visit the Albinger Archaeological Museum in Ventura. They will see the oldest standing structure in Ventura County.
Day 5
Students will visit the Leonis Adobe Museum in Calabasas. They will learn about early settlers lives. Students will tour a barn and a blacksmith shop.
Animals and Environments
Big Questions: How are organisms similar or different than their parents?
Day 1
Students will visit Channel Islands. Students will take a day trip and learn about the history and nature on Channel Islands.
Day 2
Students will watch a movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs at the Santa Paula Regency Theaters.
Day 3
Visiting the Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College while learning about the different ways animals meet their needs. Students will write about a chosen animal. Students will take a picture with their chosen animal and write a biography about
Day 4
Santa Barbara Zoo
Day 5
Visiting the Ventura Beach to learn about marine life. Students will learn about some of the fish that inhabit the waters off of Ventura. Students will talk to fishermen. They will try their luck at trying to catch a fish.
Transportation Week
Big Questions: What are the different forms of transportation and how have they affected our way of life? How is addition and subtraction essential to transporation?
Day 1
Students will visit the California Oil Museum in Santa Paula. They will learn about the history of Oil in Ventura County. Students will also learn about the cost of oil and its impact on our society. Students will do math involving the prices of gas and apply it to real life situations.
Day 2
Students will visit the Aviation Museum of Santa Paula. Students will apply math concepts to learning about planes and flying.
Day 3
Students will ride train and compare and contrast transportation methods. Students will visit the Fillmore & Western Railway. Students will learn the different forms of transportations along with the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of transportation. Students will take a ride on a train.
Day 4
Students will visit the Murphy Auto Museum in Oxnard. They will learn about the history of vehicles. Students will see cars over 100 years old!
Day 5 Blog Entry
Students will visit the Channel Islands Maritime Museum in Oxnard. They will learn all things to do with the water from ships to whales. Blog Entry
Arts Week
Day 1
Santa Paula Art Museum in Santa Paula. Do art!
Day 2
Students will attend the Carnegie Art Museum.
Day 3
Students will visit the Santa Buenaventura Mission to learn about the history. They will also visit the BuenaVentura Gallery
Day 4
Students will go to Color Me Mine.
Day 5
Students will visit the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Adventure Week (TBA)
Day 1
Students will visit the President Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. Students will learn about President Reagan. Students will talk and write about why voting matters. They will have a discussion. Students will walk through an Air Force One.
Day 2
Movies in Regency Theater at Santa Paula.
Day 3
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Day 5