Learning doesn't stop at the classroom door and we want you to make the most of your Noah's Landing program. We've created a series of activities to help you extend the lessons you'll learn with Noah's Landing. Many of our lessons start in the classroom and continue at Noah's Landing, creating opportunities for your students to extend their classroom lessons at the farm. In addition to the tour, for example, you might ask students to keep a classification chart of the animals they meet. Or, you might charge them with photographing an animal and doing additional research for a conservation card.
Extend Your Experience
These activities are designed to link classroom activities with your Noah's Landing tour. Begin the lesson at school and then extend the lesson during your visit.
Classification Scramble
Turn your students into scientists as they classify members of the animal kingdom. When they arrive at Noah’s Landing, challenge them to classify the animals that they meet during their tour.
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Conservation Cards
Many of the animals that you’ll meet are threatened or endangered in the wild. But what does that mean? Explore conservation, preservation and keystone species and turn your students into researchers. At the end, create a conservation bulletin board that will educate the entire school.
Enrich Your Tour
These activities are designed to enrich your Noah's Landing tour, transforming your students from mere participants in the day to active learners and knowledge constructors.
Adaptation Bingo
How do animals survive in the wild? Teach key adaptation traits with this tour game where students try to find enough animal adaptations to get "Bingo!"
Noah's Scavenger Hunt
Print out these worksheets and challenges your students to listen for clues throughout the tour. Reward those that get everything correct!
Teacher's Key
Reflections
Reflection is a critical part of learning. Use these activities to help students think about the animals they met at Noah's Landing.
Adaptation Creations
What does it take to survive in the wild? Challenge their memories - and their imaginations - with this worksheet.
Showcase Journal
Ask students to create a journal entry based on their visit. What did they see? What was their favorite animal? Can they remember facts about their animal? Consider asking students to draw a picture to accompany their entry.
Broadcast Bulletin Board
Let other students learn from your experience. Encourage students to draw pictures of their favorite animal at Noah's Landing and to include a few fun facts. Hang these pictures in the hallway or create an "Our Field Trip Board" to teach other students.
Volunteer Ideas
It's never too early to begin instilling those values that we hope our students will carry throughout life: service, community, engagement. Challenge your students to "adopt" Noah's Landing as a community service project and tie your visit into a larger project to encourage volunteering and service.
- Adopt an Animal: Guests can "adopt an animal" at Noah's Landing, funding it's care for a year. Adoptions start at $100/year and your students will receive updates throughout the school year. Challenge them to raise money to adopt their favorite animal.
- Donation Drive: Noah's Landing always needs supplies. Encourage your class to host a donation drives for the critters at the farm. Critical supplies include: paper towels, hand sanitizer, brooms, toilet paper, sandwich bags, stuffed animals for enrichment, animal toys.
- Plant a Garden: Plan a volunteer afternoon on the campus and have your class sponsor a garden. If you bring the plants, we'll provide the bed and oversee the construction of the garden. At the end, we'll put a sign thanking your class for their work!
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