DISCOVERY CLASSES
On-site – At High Desert Museum
$175 for a 90-minute program. The fee includes admission to the Museum for teachers, up to 30 students and one chaperone for every five students (required).
Museum memberships and/or passes may not be used for any part of a school group admission. Multiple programs may be booked during a visit.
Off-site – At Your Facility
$200 for a 90-minute program. Maximum of 30 students per program. Excess mileage fees may apply for facilities outside of Bend.
EARTH SCIENCE
Rockin’ Geology
Using the Cascade mountain range as our guide, students will unearth how a variety of igneous rocks are formed through different volcanic processes. Students will simulate their own volcanic eruptions.
What’s The Matter?
Liquid, solid, and gas are the three types of matter that your students will test through inquiry and some messy experimentation. How does matter transform? What is it made out of? Through trial and error, let’s find out together.
Watershed Wildlife
Focusing on the Deschutes Watershed and the unique geology and soils present within the High Desert, students will develop a greater understanding of our watershed ecology using their observational skills.
Meets EARTH SCIENCE benchmarks for K-6th grade.
LIFE SCIENCE
Reptiles
Get up close and personal with these scaled and slimy desert dwellers. Students will use observation and inquiry to classify reptile groups and differentiate them from their amphibians.
Birds of Prey
Hunters of the sky have unique ways of catching, eating, and digesting their prey. We’ll look inside an owl pellet and meet a raptor while your students learn about these winged wonders.
Desert Dwellers
Deserts are filled with life! Students become field biologists and work outside exploring diverse microhabitats to determine how High Desert animals have adapted to the environment.
Creepy Crawlies
Enter the amazing world of insects and arachnids! Students will use the scientific method to classify arthropods and discover more by dissecting crickets and observing live animals.
Meets LIFE SCIENCES benchmarks for K-6th grade.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Art Through Ancestry
Using precious Native American items from the past as inspiration, your students can learn to create new art pieces from a variety of materials such as paints, plant matter, and animal skins.
Traveling the Applegate Trail
Discover this unique section of the famous passage to the West through the study of artifacts, journals and maps. Problem solving activities allow students to find out if their party will survive and reach the end of the Applegate Trail.
Living Off the Land
Native people follow the seasons and understand the science of surviving with resources from nature. Your students can test their survival skills as well as create their own tools through this hands-on class that focuses on tribes still living in the High Desert.
Meets SOCIAL SCIENCES benchmarks for 3rd-6th grade.
Be sure you download our FIELD TRIP GUIDELINES and/or our OFF-SITE PROGRAM GUIDELINES in Adobe PDF format!
