Wild Science!

Curriculum

Our goal is to provide a fun, enriching, hands-on experience for all of our students. Our program has curriculum tailored to engage and challenge students of all ages. Every class will begin with a "Mind Map" of what is to be taught for that particular lesson. Every student will be taught how to think like a scientist and how to hone their own powers of observation through the active, hands-on method we call the OHECK Boogie: Observation - Hypothesis - Experiment - Conclusion - Knowledge. At the end of every program students partake in the "Bill of Rights" to share what they know so others can grow. Students are encouraged to bring home these projects to help inspire more scientific inquiry and discussion with their friends and family. Students will have the opportunity to:

• touch and feed live animals
• engage in make-and-take projects
• create and build simple machines and architectural phenomena
• take things apart
• run earth science simulations
• hone their powers of observation by making sculptures, sketches and paintings
• study physics in action, and
• be exposed to new breakthroughs in science.

2009-2010 Winter: Science Lab Explorer
Follow in the footsteps of the great minds of physics and chemisty, and make amazing discoveries about the world we live in! We will don our goggles and lab coats to experiment with gravity, centrifugal force, pressure and temperature, and make bubbling lava lamps, slime, and hydrogen soap bubbles that explode into orange flames! Learn about atoms and molecules, mix acids and bases, and create exothermic and endothermic reactions that can power a rocket! Confuse your senses with waves of sound and light, and experience fun and wild science with Tree Frog Trek!

2010 Spring: Survivor Frog!
Have you ever wondered how to make fire without matches, purify water, and build your own shelter? Or what you would go if you were stranded on a desert island? If so, then join Survivor Frog! We will learn to recognize and prepare edible plants, track and stalk wild animals, ans make rope and baskets out of plants that grow in your neighborhood park. Each class will start with a team challenge that will prepare you to work together in difficult conditions. Become a Survivor Frog with the knowledgeable naturalists and amazing reptile and amphibian animal ambassadors from Tree Frog Treks, who won't vote you off the island, but will instead help you gain survival skills, work as a team, and explore the nature all around us!

2010 Fall: Wild Animal Explorer!
Join Tree Frog Treks for our Animal Explorer program!  We will learn about the five classes of vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) by meeting live animals, studying skins, skulls, and specimens, and exploring the natural world.  Hold frogs and do the frog walk!  Find out about the secret lives of your own pets!  Touch a Red-tailed hawk wing and talons, learn bird calls, and use binoculars and a spotting scope to see our feathered friends up close!  Find out which bears used to live in San Francisco, and how they can sleep all winter without eating!  Develop your powers of observation, make fun take-home art projects, and come face-to-face with frogs, salamanders, lizards, snakes and our whole cast of creepy, crawly co-workers!