Curriculum Outlines
Once your field trip or environmental program is scheduled, look for your program below to download your curriculum outline. It includes important information about your program, things to talk to your students about before your program, name tags to make and wear the day of the program and additional optional activities to reinforce what your students will learn!
ShareThis! Downloadable curriculum outlines are only available for field trips to Placer Nature Center. Left click to open or right click to download to your computer, unless noted as a link.
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General Field Trip Information
Directions to Placer Nature Center:
- Link to online Google Map Directions
Directions
Placer Nature Center Campus Map
School Program Brochure
Natural & Cultural History
Grade |
Program |
PreSchool |
Foothill Discovery – Fur and Feathers |
Kindergarten |
Foothill Environment – Exploring With Senses |
| Habitat – A Place To Live | |
| Life Cycles – Growing Up, Seed or Frog | |
| Native Americans of the Foothills | |
4th |
Food Chains – Who’s Eating Whom? |
| Ecology – Everything is Connected | |
6th |
Natural Resource Conservation – What are the 3 R’s? |
7th-12th |
Your Role: Closing the Loop - Recycling by Humans and Nature |
Watershed Learning Center
Grade |
Program |
| Pond Paddlers | |
| Stream Swimmers | |
| River Runners |
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