I.+In-school+Trips

﻿ Locations with * denote field trips the school went on last year.

High Touch High Tech "High Touch High Tech provides science programs for kids aged 4-15 by having kids do hands-on experiments in a variety of settings. We send our scientist to you with all the equipment to give your kids an experience of a life time." Some of the many experiences include "Dig It," where students learn about geology, "Magnet Makers," where students learn about the properties of magnetism, "Up, Up, and Away," where students learn abotu aerodynamics and air pressure, and "Silly Cells," where students can look at their own cells through a microscope. []

Connecticut Audubon Society The 14 programs we offer fulfill specific standards of the Connecticut Science Framework (noted in our brochure) and all include an outdoor component. Your class can visit our Center at Fairfield -- where programs are typically 1 hour, 90 minutes or 2 hours long. Or our teacher-naturalists will visit your school to conduct 45-minute or hour-long programs.

The Beardsely Zoo

Steppingstones Museum for Children

***SoundWaters** (1281 Cove Road Stamford)  SoundWaters, is the leading environmental education organization on Long Island Sound. The mission of SoundWaters is to educate children and adults about the wonders and beauty of Long Island Sound and its watershed. Through education, SoundWaters provides people with an understanding and awareness of the changes they can make in their lives and communities to restore, protect and preserve Long Island Sound and the Environment.

As part of their programs, SoundWaters offers hands on, inquiry based educational opportunities for students in the classroom that compliment their onsite field trips. All are designed to support and amplify CT + NY state mandated education standards. Students learn about the most significant natural resource in the region: Long Island Sound. Students will have the opportunity to see organisms found in Long Island Sound before they visit multiple habitats in the coastal environment. [|www.soundwaters.org]