The Rock Ladies of Madison provide earth science enrichment programs for youth of all ages. Instead of planning a field trip, let us bring the field trip to you! For school classrooms, our programs have an excellent balance of large specimens, visual aids, and hands on exploration interpreted by knowledgeable educators. We also facilitate field trips, science fairs, and youth group achievements. Call us to schedule your earth adventure!
We offer programs that enrich and support grades K-8. Based upon what science program your school district uses, we can discuss what standards apply for each grade level, and how our programs meet your requirements.
Here’s a partial listing of our programs by grade level:
- Mystery Rocks: Identify and learn about rocks through the senses. Ideal for young children in preschool through kindergarten. Thirty minute program.
- Dinosaurs: Students examine fossils of plants, dinosaurs, and other animals that lived 65 million years ago. A fun enrichment that can be presented to students as young as grades 2-3, and fun for adults as well. One hour program.
- Rocks in the Home: Explore the Earth’s sources of some of our most familiar products such as baby powder, plaster walls, and cookware. Young scientists are challenged to match rock specimens with their derived household products. Recommended for grades 1-3, meets FOSS requirements. One hour to one hour fifteen minute program.
- Three Types of Rocks in Wisconsin: Learn about the forces that shape our earth, the vastness of geologic time, and clues that help identify the three kinds of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic). Recommended for grades 4-5, and 8. Two hour program with the option to split into two separate one hour programs.
- Sedimentary Sleuthing: Dig beneath the soil in Southern Wisconsin and you’ll discover layers of sedimentary rocks. These deposits with their fossils provide clues about our state’s ancient climates, life and rock forming processes. Recommended for grades 6. One hour and fifteen minute program.
- Glacial Field Trip: Track the “foot-prints of the glacier” through Dane County by bus. Stops include hiking and rock collecting. Five hour bus tour.
- Fossil Boxes and Rock Quarry field trip: Learn about local fossils in the classroom, and explore a rock quarry to collect fossils. Thirty minute box session followed by one hour quarry trip.
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