Fall 2017 Field Trip for Teachers at the Cal Natural History Museums

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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 4:30-6:30pm - Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley Campus. This is at the west end of campus about 3 blocks from the Berkeley BART.

At this Field Trip for Teachers on the UC Berkeley Campus, teachers will get the opportunity to tour some of Cal's Natural History Museums that are not generally open to the public. Go behind the scenes to see how scientists use collections in their research. Learn how you might create and use collections in your classroom. Find out about many of field trip possibilities on campus. Take home ideas for NGSS aligned lessons for your classroom.

In between tours we will gather in the courtyard to network, enjoy snacks and beverages, and check out sample lessons, resources, and ideas for bringing students to campus.

We will send you a confirmation email with more details the week before the event.

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* 1. Name (First and Last)

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* 2. At which school do you teach?

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* 3. District

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* 4. Preferred Email Address:

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* 5. For the best learning experience, we are limiting tour sizes to 10 teachers per museum per time period.
Let us know which museums your are most interested in touring. Please rank your order of interest in these museums. 1 = 1st choice, etc.You will have the opportunity for a behind-the-scenes tour of up to three of the specialty collections, led by grad students or researchers specializing in those fields. Please indicate which museums you are most interested in touring so that we may balance out tour group sizes.

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (Over 640,000 specimens of amphibians, reptiles, birds, bird eggs or nests, and mammals.)

Museum of Paleontology (UCMP has one of the largest paleontologicals collection of any university museum in the world. Dinosaurs, Saber Tooth Cats, Sloths, invertebrates, and more)

Essig Museum of Entomology (Insects large and small, brightly colored and camouflaged. One of the largest university-based research collections of insects in North America.)

The University and Jepson Herbaria (Explore the diversity of plants from California and from around the world)

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* 6. Please let us know which tour times you plan to be present for.

4:30-5:00

5:15-5:45

6:00-6:30