Farm Programs

Farm Life & History Trip 110 Explore the importance of agriculture in our lives by making discoveries about the past. By doing farm chores, comparing farm tools from the past and present, investigating journals and photographs from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s students will gain a sense of what life was like on the farm.

Super Soil Trip 120 Students explore their connection to the world beneath their feet as they discover why soil is the basis of life on earth. Through indoor and outdoor investigations, students will discover the properties of soil, explore soil composition, meet our red wiggler worms and learn how they contribute to the health of soil and find out how they can conserve soil by composting their food scraps.

Vermiculture Trip 130 Wonderful World of worm farming This cross-disciplinary activity teaches your class how to be worm farmers with earthworms.

BUGS, BUGS, BUGS !!! Trip 140 Learn what creeps and crawls in your own back yard and how to know the good guys from the bad.

Chicago Indians Trip 150 Study an actual Pottawatomie settlement complete with Wigwam. Lean how the Native residents of Chicago lived and shared the land.