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 fivestudents (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.
Meets EARTH SCIENCE benchmarks for K-6th grade. Choose from the following:
Rockin’
Geology
Using the scientific method, students will test their own ideas
about rocks to discover the various minerals and rocks that are
created through the volcanic process.
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? Through
trial and error, let’s find out together.
Meets LIFE SCIENCES benchmarks for K-6th grade. Choose from the following:
Reptiles
Get up close and personal with these desert dwellers as
your class digs up the importance of our cold-blooded friends.
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 explore diverse microhabitats to determine
how High Desert animals have adapted to the environment.
Creepy
Crawlies
Enter the amazing world of insects and arachnids! The students
will classify arthropodsby observing insect collections and
live animals.
3rd-6th grade. Choose from the following:
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 clay, plant
materials, and animal skins.
Traveling the Applegate
Trail
Discover this unique section of the famous passage to the West
through the study of artifacts, journals, music and maps.
Problemsolving activities allow students to find out if their
party survives.
Living Off the
Land
Native people understood the seasons and the science of living
off the land. Your students can test their survival skills as
well as create their own artistic tools through this hands-on
class.
Be sure you download our FIELD TRIP GUIDELINES and/or our OFF-SITE PROGRAM GUIDELINES in Adobe PDF format!
