Stones & Bones Discovery Tour
Overview
Rain or shine! Our education staff takes you on a geologic tour of the museum featuring hands-on activities with rock specimens, fossils, and science demonstrations. Students learn about the rock cycle, the geologic history of Delaware, how fossils form, and how to identify some common minerals. This is a slightly longer program and takes two hours to complete.
Stations
- rock garden / Delaware geologic history
- Mineral ID
- Rock cycle passport
- fossils
Standards
| NGSS: MS-ESS1-4, MS-ESS2-1, MS-ESS2-3 |
Details
- Live Animals: Yes
- Duration: 2 hours
- Minimum number of students: 15
- Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
- Intended Grade Level: 4-8
- Location: at DelMNS
Discovery Tours
- Dino Descendants (Birds): PreK-K
- Home Sweet Habitat: PreK-K
- SENSE-ational Animals: PreK-1st
- Environments & Survival: K-4
- Exploring Extinction: Grades 1-2
- Cycle of Life: Grades 1-3
- Stones & Bones: Grades 4-8
- Delaware & Beyond: All Ages
- Self-Guided: All Ages
Mobile Museum Outreaches
- How to Museum: All Ages
- Dinos, Dinos, Dinos: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5
- Amazing Animal Adaptations: PreK-K
- Buggin’ Out: PreK-K
- Looking Out My Backdoor: PreK-K
- Forces in Motion: PreK-1
- Earth’s Place in Space: K-2
- How It’s Made: 1-2
- Trait-astic!: 1-3
- Most Extreme Animals: 5-6
- Motions of the Ocean: K-2
- Pollinators Party: PreK-1