Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center

Program Overview & CostsField Trips to the Coastal CenterCoastal Center Experience (CCE)Price: $6.00 per participant (student or adult)Limit: 15 min./45 max. number of students Pre-K /Kindergarten field trip program:Time frame: 90 minutesProgram includes: A private, interactive stingray program, exploration time of select exhibits and an Everglades lesson-based story time.Grade school field trip program:(1-12)Time frame: 2 hoursProgram includes: A private, interactive stingray program, exploration of select exhibits, and a lesson based on grade level standards (see Program Descriptions) or an Everglades Program.

Seining Adventure Price: $12.00 per participant (student or adult)Limit: 12 min./30 max. number of students Grade levels: 2-12Time frame: 3 hoursProgram includes: A guided nature walk through the mangrove swamp, seining exploration in the Indian River Lagoon, an overview of select exhibits and a private, interactive stingray program.*Please note: This is a water based program

Bring the Coastal Center to your ClassroomOutreach Program

See Program Descriptions per grade level or request Everglades Program this yearOutreach fee: $30.00 (includes 1 session)Additional sessions (same grade) $10.00 each Limit: One classroom (25 students) per sessionOutreach area is limited to Martin and St. Lucie Counties

Florida Oceanographic’s mission is to inspire environmental stewardship of Florida’s coastal ecosystems through

education and research.

Please join us in our mission today.

For scheduling or questions on school programs, please contact

Michelle Byriel at (772) 225-0505 ext. 116

or by email: mbyriel@floridaocean.org.

Program request forms can be found at www.floridaocean.org/p/16/groups

Hours of Operation:10am-5pm Monday-Saturday

12pm-4pm Sunday

Field Trips and Outreaches for

Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

School Programs 2011/2012

A Focus on the Everglades

Elementary SchoolElementary Everglades Programs are grade appropriate

and are offered as an alternative Outreach.Kindergarten: FSS: SC.K.L.14.2 – Distinguish between pretend and real animals, between plants and animalsOutreach: Beach Buddies: A touch tank programField Trip Focus: Animals vs. plants

Grade 1: FSS: SC.1.L.14.1 and SC.1.L.14.3 – Using your senses, and distinguishing between living and non-livingOutreach: Shell Senses: A touch tank programField Trip Focus: Sensory walk; living vs. non-living things

Grade 2: FSS. SC.2.L.16.1, SC.2.L.17.1, SC.2.L.17.2 – Life cycles of plants/animals, basic needs for survival, different kinds of living things in different environmentsOutreach: Turtle Tracks Field Trip Focus: Life cycles and habitats

Grade 3: FSS. SC.3.L.15.1 – Classifying animalsOutreach: (3 options)- Sharks as Fish, Sea Turtles as Reptiles, or Manatees as Marine MammalsField Trip Focus: Types of animals; Nature trail to the Ais Indian encampment (FSS.3.G.4.4)

Grade 4: FSS: SC.4.L.17.1, SC.4.L.17.2, SC.4.L.17.3 – Consumers and producers Outreach: The Food Web: Know your role Field Trip Focus: Food webs

Grade 5: FSS: SC.4.L.14.2, SC.5.L.17.1 – Compare and contrast structures and adaptations displayed in plants/animalsOutreach: Adaptations of Marine Producers Field Trip Focus: Adaptations of different plants and animals.

Program DescriptionsMiddle School

An Everglades Program appropriate for middle school is offered as an alternative Outreach.

Grade 6: FSS: SC.6.L.16.1 – Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classifiedOutreach: Classification of InvertebratesField Trip Focus: Fish and invertebrate classifications

Grade 7: FSS: SC.7.L.17.1 – Relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in energy transfer in a food web.Outreach: Apex Predators: Maintaining balance Field Trip Focus: Trail Detritus– producers/consumers/ decomposers Grade 8: FSS: SC.L.1.18.1 – The Process of PhotosynthesisOutreach: Mangrove Mechanisms: Germination on the TreeField Trip Focus: Water quality– a look at D.O., salinity, pH, temperature

Florida Oceanographic’s educational focus for the 2011-2012 school year is

on the Everglades.

High SchoolOur High School programs are focused on identification

techniques for three groups of organisms – plants, fish and birds. Alternatively this year we are also offering an

Everglades Programming option for Outreaches.

Classification and Characteristics of Plants FSS: SC.912.L.14.53Outreach: Students will be guided through the basic terminology of plant identification and be given a few examples to work through and identify from Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center. Field Trip: Following a review of principles, students will be given worksheets and guided along our one mile nature trail to identify plant species found within the hammock and mangrove habitats.

Fishes Concentration FSS: SC.912.L.15.7Outreach: Students would be guided through a “Cold-Read” program on the identification of fishes and be given examples to work through as a group.Field Trip: After a review of the structures that are used in a cold read approach to fish identification, students will be given directions to follow-through and identify fish onsite.

Bird-watching FSS: SC.912.L.15.7Outreach: As with the fishes program, students will be taught a methodical way to take note of bird characteristics. We will address and review some common local species and their identifications.Field Trip: After a brief overview of the principles of bird identification, we will walk the nature trail to the Indian River Lagoon, which traverses hammock and mangrove habitats, and hone the skills learned to be able to ID our local bird species.