The 3rd grade class will take a 4 hour field trip to the Diamond Valley Lake museum to learn about life science, physical systems, and how geography can be used to interpret the past. Students will discuss how the environment and animals have changed over time by examining fossils and displays. They are asked to bring a notebook, pencil, lunch, and money. After the trip, students will discuss what they learned and complete a worksheet with questions about the museum. For homework, each student must draw a map of the museum with their favorite area and explain why it was their favorite in a paragraph.

1. Vanessa Garcia
03/13/2013

2.  Subject: Science & Geography
 Grade level: 3rd grade
 Length of Session: 4 hours
 Field trip: Diamond Valley lake museum

3.  Life Science:
 (3) Adaptations in physical structure or behavior
may improve an organisms chance for survival. As
a basis for understanding this concept:
 (d) Student know when the environment changes,
some plants and animals survive and reproduce;
others die or move to new locations.
 (e) Student know that some kind of organism that
once live on Earth have completely disappeared
and that some of those resembled others that are
alive today.

4.  Physical Systems:
 (7) The physical processes that shape the
patterns of Earths surface.
 The use of Geography:
 (17) How to apply Geography to interpret the
past.

5.  Third grade students normally study about the dinosaurs
and other kind of animals that used to exist in this world
and now they have extinct. Before we take the students
to the fieldtrip we are going to discuss several things
about the past. Some of the questions we are going to
discuss are what was the environment like before
people lived here? Which plants and animals used to
lived here? Has the environment changed over time
and how?
 We are also going to talk about fossils because students
need to know that not only bones are consider a fossil. A
fossil is any remnant of a plant or animal that has been
preserved in the Earth for a long period of time. Just by
looking at the fossils you can tell how long it has exist
here in the world.

6.  Note book
 Pencil
 Lunch
 Money (Not required)
 Map of the museum

7.  After having a lecture in the class about the
different animals that used to exist along time ago
and what a fossil is. The entire class is going to go
to a field trip to the Diamond Valley Lake museum
in Hemet. This is a great museum for children to
visit because it gives students an idea of how the
world used to be and how it has change
throughout the years.

8.  For the next day of class students are going to talk
about everything they saw and what they learn after
looking to all those stuff in the museum. Then, the
students are going to take out their notebook in
where they took notes and in small groups they are
going to work in a worksheet that has different
questions about the museum.
 Then for homework each student is going to try their
best and draw a map of the entire museum or just
how to get to their favorite part of the museum. And
at the bottom of the map they are going to write a
paragraph of why that part was their favorite.

9. Rubric Student Name:
Completed Assignment Partially completed Not completed
Sketch Notebook with
notes
Map of the museum with
paragraph
Class assignment
questions
Total points: /9
Student Evaluation: I will use a rubric to grade the work of the
Students and see if they completed and understood the assignments.