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3rd Grade Prep

2024-25

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TODAY’S MEETING

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  1. Review program staff, goals, & activities

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  • Review logistics including field trip buses, lunches, & waivers

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  • Review your schedule on the Ocean Discovery Teacher Portal

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IN-SCHOOL PROGRAM STAFF

Jennifer Jacques

In-School Program Manager

jjacques@oceandi.org

626-678-7057

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PROGRAM GOALS

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  • Students learn the importance of the rocky seashore ecosystem, explore how animals and humans use this ecosystem, and learn how they can help protect the rocky seashore today and in the future.

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  • Students will believe science is something they can do and a scientist is someone they can be.

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PROGRAM STRUCTURE

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Experience

Theme

Location

Timing

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Build Community

School Classrooms

1 hour

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Explore

La Jolla Tidepools

9:45am – 1:15pm

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Make a Difference

Ocean Discovery Living Lab

9:30am – 1:00pm

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LESSON 1: COMMUNITY BUILDING IN CLASSROOM

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  • Students are introduced to kelp forests.

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  • Students play a “rocky seashore bingo” activity to learn what animals live in this habitat.

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  • Students create a discovery fish to become part of a community of scientists.

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CLASSROOM LOGISTICS QUESTIONS

  1. Can we use your Smart Board to access a PowerPoint online?

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  • What are your classroom numbers?

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  • What is your personal phone number (to use on day of field trips)?

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  • How many non-English speaking students do you have? What languages do they speak?

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  • Is there any information you can share regarding student needs?

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LESSON 2: EXPLORE ROCKY SEASHORE FIELD TRIP

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  • Tidepool exploration

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  • Invertebrate identification

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  • Storm drain investigation

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  • Self-reflection

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LESSON 2: EXPLORE ROCKY SEASHORE FIELD TRIP

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Schedules dependent on time of low-tide:

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Early Low Tide Late Low Tide

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LESSON 3: MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT THE LIVING LAB

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  • Meet live rocky seashore invertebrates

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  • Trash pick up in the canyon

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  • Create their own invertebrates to test against the tides of the rocky seashore

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  • Virtual conversation with a real scientist

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PROGRAM UPDATES

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    • New Teaching Fellowship – all of our instructional staff is new this year! Student support is needed & appreciated.

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  • Sick Student Policy – inform teacher, call school office / admin, if permission is given, their guardian can pick up from location. Please bring release forms on field trips.

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  • Teacher / Chaperone Expectations
    • Parent Chaperones – Sign Waiver Release & Check in at Living Lab
    • Inform us of student needs
    • Stay engaged with students! Join in on the activities and exploration.

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NEXT STEPS

  • Print, disperse and collect Ocean Discovery waivers by the first day of program (located on Teacher Portal)

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  • Recruit chaperones as needed for your class
    • 1-2 highly encouraged*

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  • Order student lunches as needed

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  • Support instructors with classroom management & address student behavior as needed

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*We reserve 2 chaperone spaces on the bus per class. If more is needed, let us know.

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REMINDERS

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  • Student reminders:
    • Bring a water bottle on both field trips
    • No student backpacks on coast field trip to La Jolla, we will give them one.
    • Wear comfortable shoes for walking
    • Wear nametags if possible

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LOGISTICS: TEACHER PORTAL

Oceandiscoveryinstitute.org/teachers

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Access to:

  • Waivers
  • Schedules
  • Preview of Lessons
  • Resources – extension activities

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THANK YOU!