Outreach Lesson

Primary Grades

Updated for the 2024-2025 school year.

Explore our available lessons for your K-2 graders!

FULL OF ENERGY

  • Explore forms of energy, including static, current, solar, kinetic, potential, sound, magnetic, and heat and their effect on an object
  • Model energy transfer, including circuits
  • Experiment with balanced and unbalanced forces

GOOD FOR YOU

  • Eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables to understand nutrition
  • Explore the effects of exercise
  • Strengthen awareness of hygiene practices

MACHINES AT WORK

  • Evaluate push and pull on an object
  • Identify and investigate six classes of simple machines
  • Utilize simple machines in real-world application

MAGNETIC MAGIC

  • Use appropriate tools to make observations
  • Develop and refine design ideas
  • Observe cause and effect relationship of magnets

MASKS OF THE WORLD

  • Recognize and apply symmetry and pattern
  • Compare and recreate recognizable characteristics from different cultures and time periods
  • Create a unique mask utilizing art elements and techniques

ROCKIN' WITH ROCKS AND MINERALS

  • Understand processes that make rocks and minerals
  • Differentiate between living and nonliving organisms
  • Test physical attributes of rocks

A limited number of lessons available at no cost courtesy of Vulcan Materials Company.

VISIT THE VERTEBRATES

  • Classify animals based on their characteristics, including their needs for survival
  • Observe hereditary traits that young plants and animals share with their parents
  • Understand habitats and how animals adapt to their environment

WEATHER AND THE WATER CYCLE

  • Explore the water cycle, naming phases (evaporation, condensation, precipitation)
  • Use meteorological tools to measure characteristics of types of weather and weather patterns
  • Compare natural cycles of Earth, including erosion, weather events, and seasons

WORLD OF WAVES

  • Classify objects as transparent, translucent, opaque, or reflective
  • Demonstrate cause and effect on various materials and the resulting waves
  • Create and observe wave patterns


PRICE
  • $150 per lesson + round-trip travel fee

Full payment is due at the time of presentation.

To reserve a program, fill out this REQUEST FORM.

Questions? Contact our Reservations Department at ssw@cdmfun.org or (423) 648-6040.