Educational Farm & Nature Preserve

3083 Liberty Road Delaware, Ohio 43015
740-363-2548

We are open to the public:
Monday - Friday,
9-5
Closed: Saturday, Sunday
and holidays

Getting to Stratford:

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A $2 per person or $5 per family donation is appreciated for those wishing to spend time at Stratford.

 

For more information or to schedule a presentation of the program for your teaching staff, contact:

April Hoy
(740)363-2548
secearthshare@aol.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Messages from the Earth

A Standards-based One-day Curriculum for 5th Grade Classrooms

Based on the international Sunship Earth curriculum, the Messages from Earth program utilizes the best experiential activities for 5th graders. Choose from the topics of energy flow, cycles and change, and community, based on your own curricular needs. (See the brochure for specific benchmarks and indicators met by each.)

Details

• Messages from the Earth will be available on Tuesdays, March 6 through May 23, 2011.


• The program is designed to be 5 hours long, beginning around 9am and ending around 2pm.


• The cost is $12 per student. Teachers are free.


• Minimum number of students is 20. Maximum is 60.

Messages from the Earth Brochure>

QUICK LINKS

Sunship Earth Brochure>

Messages from the Earth Brochure>

 

Program Components to Choose From

Energy Flow

• A mysterious package delivered to your classroom will hook your students into this engaging program where they will experience the flow of energy.


• They will visit many strange and wonderful places as they discover how energy is made, how it cycles, how it flows up the food chain, how it is challenging to attain, how it can be stored and used up, and how oxygen is needed for it to be produced.

Cycles and Change

• Out amongst the cycles of air, water and nutrients, the students will engage with the elements as they become the water cycle, ride the air cycle and visit a cemetery full of life and death.


• Students will become agents of change as they concoct their own soil recipes, compete for compost, and attempt to secure themselves on a "rocky cliff" as if they were moss.

Community

• Students will receive new identities, acquiring names such as "slippery undercover soil eater" or "small furry seed reducer." These puzzling characters will set off with a map, logging their discoveries in their "community chronicles."


• Throughout the day, the students will demonstrate their understandings of adaptations, diversity, homesites, niches, competition and cooperation.

 

 

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