Today's hours: 10am - 5pm
Investigations
Investigation: Forest Habitats (outdoor)
What do living things need to survive? How do they fill those needs? Students will explore the great outdoors, identifying the living members of a Georgia Piedmont forest and discovering the amazing ways they survive, including incredible adaptations and exciting life cycles.
Investigation: Ecology (outdoor)
How do organisms survive and relate to one another in Georgia Piedmont forests? Students will explore habitats and participate in inquiry-based activities in this outdoor program to discover the unique and important roles different plants and animals play in Piedmont forests. Students will study adaptations, survey for animal signs and construct a “web of life” model of a forest ecosystem.
Investigation: Geology
Get hands-on experience in the field of geology! Students will explore the processes which form rocks, minerals and Earth’s landscapes in this station-rotation investigation program. Inquiry-based activities will engage students with the science and natural history of Earth’s incredible features.
Investigation: Paleontology
Get an interactive crash course in paleontology! Excavate fossils at a miniature dig site, connect the traits of bones and teeth to the ecology of ancient organisms and use clues to identify where, when and how your discovered animal may have lived. Hands-on activities and instructor-led discussions help frame fossils in their important role in understanding Earth’s biological past.
Investigation: Zoology
Explore the tree of life in this mystery organism investigation. In this station-rotation program, students will be assigned a “mystery animal” and will answer questions about the organism at each station to discover its identity. Students will examine significant adaptations which define and classify groups of organisms and will identify where their “mystery animal” fits in the evolutionary tree based on the adaptations which help it survive.
Investigation: Astronomy
How heavy is 1 pound on Jupiter? What does a solar eclipse look like from space? Explore the objects in our celestial neighborhood and the forces that affect them in this hands-on program. Through guided discussion and modeling astronomical events, students will gain a better understanding of Earth’s place in space and how its movements create the patterns we experience throughout the year. This program is available the last week of the month, Tues. - Thurs.
Make a reservation online or contact the Field Trip Team at 404.929.6320 or FieldTrips@FernbankMuseum.org.
Fernbank is a nonprofit natural history museum, giant screen theater and old-growth forest, and is not affiliated with Fernbank Science Center, which operates as a division of DeKalb County Schools.
