8th Grade Field Trip
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
About the Field Trip:
On November 14th, 2017 - Staley 8th Graders will be taking a field trip to the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens.
*Please make payment online at My Payments Plus or you can send 10.00 cash/check (receipt will be given) and return the permission slip with your student ASAP. Students will turn in their permission slips to their 8th Grade Science Teacher*
Students will get to experience a 45 minute "hands on" science lab and tour the different garden areas and exhibits. One of the special exhibits included in Autumn at the Arboretum is the popular one-acre Pumpkin Village in the Pecan Grove, which contains pumpkin houses featuring designs inspired by this year's theme, The Wizard of Oz.
Student's will either need to bring their lunch or order a sack lunch from the cafe, as we will be having a picnic lunch in one of the garden areas. We will send home details soon regarding cafeteria sack lunch orders.
We will depart Staley around 8:30 am and return around 2:30 pm. Students will need arrive on time to school to ensure they are not left behind.
Comfortable walking attire is highly encouraged. Students might want to dress in layers as November weather, and Texas weather in general, is often unpredictable.
Calling All Parent Volunteers!!!
https://appgarden10.app-garden.com/VolTrackTX043905.nsf
Admission into The Dallas Arboretum will be provided at no cost to the chaperone.
Parent volunteers/chaperones must drive their own vehicle. Chaperones arriving in their own vehicle may pre-pay for parking to receive a reduced rate of $8. The regular parking rate, if paid day of the field trip, will be $15. Mrs. Ryan has the details on how to get discounted parking. Chaperones may be required to park in a different location than busses. We will coordinate a meeting place prior to the field trip.
Siblings and strollers should not be brought with chaperones and may be refused entrance to education program / field trip.
Please contact Mrs. Ryan (ryanm@friscoisd.org) for more information.
Science and The Arboretum
Students will experience a 45 min lesson over one of the following topics:
TEXAS NATIVE WETLANDS BIOLOGIST How healthy is our habitat? Bring your students to an outdoor island classroom to collect data in our Texas Native Wetlands. Students will make connections between living and nonliving parts of the environment to determine the health of our waterway using cutting edge scientific tools.
EARTH CYCLES EARTH FROM SPACE Life on Earth is dominated by regular and repeating patterns. In this program, students learn all about the relationships between the seasons, moon phases, shadows and planets through hands-on demonstrations and a focused student activity in the gallery.
KALEIDOSCOPE Students explore how science is the study of natural patterns and how these patterns can be of use to humans. Students will first investigate patterns regularly found in nature and then explore how patterns can be analyzed with math by looking at the Fibonacci sequence. The experience continues as students explore the gallery and quantify the most commonly observed shapes in plants, how that shape could be an adaptation and how humans have made use of that shape.
POWERFUL OCEANS Discover the incredible role of oceans in creating and regulating weather on the largest Omni-Globe in Texas! Students will watch as the giant sphere models animations of ocean currents and hurricanes from satellite data and explore why we depend on the health of this valuable resource.