EDUCATIONAL FIELD TRIPS

Educational Field Trips In NJ

We have multiple program options to get young people to step out of their comfort zone. If you are looking to book field trips in NJ, we offer a safe controlled space, which encourages participants to push past perceived limits. This is facilitated through individual and team based challenges with a strong emphasis on communication and teamwork all based in our back-to-nature setting. Individuals take part in collective analysis, problem-solving, and debriefing techniques.

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Day Trips In NJ

Sample youth retreat schedule:

9:00am - Arrival at Hands in 4 Youth

9:05am - Welcome! Students will assemble on the field for a quick introduction and warm-up activity

9:20am - Students will break into programming groups. These are predetermined by the lead teacher and should have adequate staff and chaperone ratios to student groups.

9:30am-10:30am - Rotation 1

10:40am-11:40am - Rotation 2

11:50am-12:20pm - Lunch! Students are welcome to have free time utilizing our playground, ball-field or blacktop after their lunch period

12:30pm-1:30pm - Rotation 3

1:45pm-1:50pm - Group review and closing circle

2:00pm - Departure! Make sure you didn’t forget anything! Thank you!

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Environmental Educational Topics

Life in the forest (E) K-PS3, K-ESS2, K-ESS3, 1-LS1, 2-LS2, 2-LS4, 2-ESS2, 3-ESS2, 3-ESS3, 5-PS3, 5-LS1, 5-LS2, MS-LS2

Students identify various stages of plants and insects with in the forest. Younger students will utilize their observation skills and recreate the stages of these living environmental components. Understanding the difference between abiotic and biotic elements of nature will be a key component of this lesson for all age groups understanding how all things in the forest work together.

Animal Adaptations (E) K-PS3, K-ESS2, K-ESS3, 1-LS1, 2-LS2, 2-LS4, 2-ESS2, 3-LS3, 3-LS4, 4-LS1, MS-LS3

Students will experience the traits of various species and how they relate to the environment, or environmental changes. We will gain an understanding of the process of gain or losing traits as a species and understand how these changes allow animals to adapt to survive.

Watershed Study (E, MS) K-PS3, K-ESS2, 2-LS4-1, 2-ESS1-1, 3-LS4, 3-ESS2-1, 3-ESS3-1, 4-ESS2, 5-ESS2, MS-ESS2

Students will understand the importance of the watersheds of New Jersey. We will discover and identify water quality indicators through observational data and collecting and identifying samples from streams on site.

Ultimate Survival (E, MS) 1-LS1, 4-ESS2-2, 5-P3

Students will learn from the world around them. Using observational and sensory information to better understand their surroundings. We will develop skills such as map reading, shelter building, and plant identification to understand our place in nature and how it can relate to all species and their needs to survive.

Interdependence in Nature (E, MS) 1-LS1, 1-LS3 -1, 2-LS4-1, 3-LSI-1, 3-LS3, 3-LS4, 4-LS1-1, 5-PS3, 5LS2, MS-LS2

Students will gain an understanding of how energy in food comes from the sun, how energy moves among plants animals and decomposer, and how characteristic in an organism may provide advantages in survival.

Functions of weather (E, MS) K-PS3, K-ESS2, 2-LS4-1, 2-ESS1-1, 3-LS4, 3-ESS2-1, 3-ESS3-1, 4-ESS2, 5-ESS2, MS-ESS

Students will understand how weather impacts our planet, how species are able to alter their environments sometimes with adverse consequences. We will use real life weather issues facing New Jersey to gain an understanding of the effects of climate change.

Clean Earth Challenge (E, MS, HS) 3-ESS2-1, 3-ESS3-1, 4-ESS3, 5-ESS2, 5-ESS3, MS-LS2, MS-ESS3

Students will gain an understanding the value and accessibility of renewable energy sources. Reviewing the basics of how this energy is created and utilized in the real world. Work together to implement solutions to fictional environmental issues, using current events as reference. Lessons depend on age and size of group. Please contact us to plan for more information!

Forest Health Assessment (HS)

Students will learn more about how land management agencies assess forest ecosystem health by use of appropriate instruments to measure tree stands and biotic and abiotic factors. Lessons depend on age and size of group. Please contact us to plan for more information!

Aquatic Systems Study (HS)

Using appropriate measurement tools, students conduct water quality tests in multiple water bodies and learn how environmental factors influence biotic systems. Lessons depend on age and size of group. Please contact us to plan for more information!

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