The Zimmer Children’s Museum is delighted to host school groups for students in Preschool through First Grade throughout the academic year. Our field trips invite students to explore and play, while revealing the museum’s “BIG IDEAS” about the world and the important role children have within our world. The museum EXHIBITS and the Lessons Learned are aligned with California Content Standards and Preschool Learning Foundations for Preschool through First Grade.
Your group has the option of selecting between Stay & Play or a Lesson Learned.
Stay & Play
This option allows children to explore the museum and play at their own pace within the various exhibits for the duration of their visit. Field trip groups less than 15 people (children and adults) can be scheduled for any morning that the museum is open—based on availability. Larger groups are welcome during our field trip days on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
Lesson Learned
In addition to an allotted time for free play in the museum, this option includes a 25 minute Educator-facilitated, standards-based, integrated art project. Lesson Learned visits are available for groups during Tuesday or Thursday mornings.
Choose from 3 great Lesson Learned offerings
for your upcoming field trip to the Zimmer Children’s Museum
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Art |
Sense-sational Art |
recommended for
Ages 4 and up |
Students will engage in sensory stimulating activity by exploring various textures and learning about their sense of touch. Each student will create a take-home art project representing different textures and colors. |
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This lesson aligns with the following California State Content Standards:
Pre-Kindergarten Visual Arts:
Vocabulary
2.3 Understand and use simple words that describe the
relations between objects
Creative Expression
2.6 Use Colors to draw or paint a picture of everyday objects
Artistic Perception
1.0 Name and describe objects by color and relative size
Preschool Learning Foundations
Listening and Speaking
2.3 Understand and use simple words that describe the
relations between objects
Writing Strategies
1.1 Experiment with grasp and body position using a
variety of drawing and writing tools |
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Science |
Blow Me Away! |
recommended for
Pre-K
Ages 4 and up |
Through a standards based STEM lesson, students will predict and investigate the ways that wind and air make objects move in the environment, and discover how weather and animals are impacted by wind. Students will explore how the use of their breath parallels the impact of the wind through activities that may include balloons, bubbles, kites, fans, or straws. |
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This lesson aligns with the following California State Content Standards:
Kindergarten Science:
Physical Sciences
1a Students know objects can be described in terms of
the materials they are made of (e.g., clay, cloth, paper)
and their physical properties (e.g., color, size, shape,
weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating, sinking)
Earth Sciences
3b Students know changes in weather occur from day
to day and across seasons, affecting earth and
its inhabitants
Investigation and Experimentation
4a Observe common objects by using the five senses
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Jewish
Culture |
What's Your Power? |
recommended for
Pre-K
Ages 4 and up |
Students will identify and compare the qualities of a hero and super hero, learn about the root of the term ‘Superman’ as derived from the Yiddish word ‘UberMensch,’ and create their own super hero logo to wear throughout their play in the museum.
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This lesson aligns with the following California State Content Standards:
Kindergarten Language Arts:
Listening and Speaking
- 1.2 Share information and ideas, speaking audibly in
complete, coherent sentences
Preschool Learning Foundations:
Social and Emotional Development
3.1 Seek to understand people’s feelings and behavior, notice
diversity in human characteristics, and are interested in how
people are similar and different
4.1 Respond to another’s distress and needs with sympathetic
caring and are more likely to assist
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General Field Trip Information:
Reservations
All Field Trips are booked based on availability.
To reserve a date for your field trip, please click HERE, or contact Belinda at (323) 761-8912 or belinda@zimmermuseum.org.
A credit card number will be required to hold your reservation. A $25 cancellation fee will be applied to field trip reservations that are cancelled without a 2 week notice.
Days/Times
Stay & Play field trips are offered Tuesdays through Fridays for groups of 15 people or less.
Larger groups or those interested in Lesson Learned field trips are scheduled Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10:00am – 12:30pm.
Age
The Zimmer Children’s Museum offers trips that are recommended for children in First Grade or below, or up to 6 years old.
Chaperones
The required child/adult ratio for play at the Zimmer is 5:1. Additional adults may attend and will be charged at the regular museum entrance rate.
Parking
For guests arriving by bus, there is a drop off spot directly in front of the museum. For guests arriving by car, there is a free visitor’s parking lot directly west of the building entrance.
Click HERE to download the Zimmer Children’s Museum Field Trip Information Guide 2011-2012.
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