Boonshoft Museum

Daily schedule with details

1. The students will arrive at Ivy Tech School at the beginning of the
school day which would be 7:30. Once the students arrive in their
classroom the teachers and chaperons will get the students ready for
their big day (use the bathroom, etc.). The teachers will let the
students know that when they return to school on Wednesday they will
have their own experiment to achieve and will talked about what they
learned on the field trip. The teacher will have doughnuts and milk for
the students before they leave for their trip. If the parent of the
student did not want their kid to eat doughnuts or drink milk the parent
can bring in a substitution other than doughnuts and milk. Around
8oclock the students, teachers, and chaperons will gather on the bus
and start heading to Boonshoft museum.
2. It will take 1 hour and 19 minutes to get to Boonshoft museum. Once
they arrive to the museum they will use the bathroom and get drinks.
One of the staff members at the museum will be waiting for the
students to take them to their first show. The first show is called
Dinosaurs, fossils & more! All the shows are hands on. The show will
approximately last for 90 minutes (45 min class plus 45 min of selfguided museum time).
3. The show will be over around 11:30. The students will now get ready to
sit down to eat lunch (use bathroom, washed hands). We will be eating
lunch in a room that I reserved beforehand. The students will already
have their pre-packed lunch to eat. The teachers/chaperons will be
there to pass out their brown lunch bags and helped to open anything.
This will be the relaxing part for the teachers, chaperons and the
students. The teachers/chaperons will eat their lunch to. Once the
students are done eating around 12:10 they will clean up their messed
with the helped of adults.
4. Now its time for the students to explore Oscar Boonshoft Science
Central. We will join the staff members around 12:15 after the
bathroom break. We will let the students run around and have fun with
the chaperons, teachers, and staff members until approximately
around 1:10. The students will now use the bathroom quickly and get
ready to head back to Ivy Tech.
5. Once the students arrive to Ivy Tech their parents will already be there
to pick their kids up.

(This is one of the activities that we will be doing, got this off Boonshoft.com)
Oscar Boonshoft Science Central
Construct a perfect pinecone birdfeeder! Get in a sticky situation by concocting some gooey slime. Make it snow in
August! In Oscar Boonshoft Science Central, hands-on science makes everything possibleand fun.

Do Lab
Is science your favorite subject? If so, then you need to pay a visit to the Do Lab. Here, a knowledgeable staff
member from the Education Department will lead you through all kinds of gross, fun, and startling interactive science
experiments. One day, you may make a baggie full of slime; on another trip, you may go home with some homemade
snow, even if its the middle of summer! No matter what experiment you and your child perform, youre sure to have
fun in the Do Lab, where education and entertainment mesh perfectlyand where understanding science becomes
the cool thing to do.

Bernoulli Blower
Have you ever seen a ball completely suspended in midair, with no visible cords, poles, or plates making it balance?
If not, stop by the Bernoulli Blowerand prepare to be amazed. Here, simply place a ball over the Blower, and watch
as it floats right before your eyes. The Bernoulli Blower focuses a stream of air, allowing you to suspend balls in
midair. If the air stream moves, the ball moves right along with it, still perfectly suspended. In this exhibit, you and
your child will learn about the properties of air molecules in an exciting, interactive way.

Gravitron
A visit to the Gravitron exhibit will offer you an engaging, interactive way to explore the principles of motion and
matter. Here, make a track out of interlocking tubes, then drop a ball into the track and see how long it rolls. Theres a
timer that resets itself with every ball-drop, and the goal is to keep the ball in motion for the longest time possible.
Make new tracks over and over again until you reach the longest time you can. While youre having fun, your child will
be learning basic principles of motion and matter. As the Gravitron sign explains, your child will familiarize him or
herself with materials, practice controlling objects, and predict how objects will behave when subjected to energy and
forces.

Roller Balls
A visit to the Roller Balls exhibit will actually take you upstairs and downstairs at the same time, so be sure that you
have a partner ready to help! At this exhibit, one person stays on the first floor and chooses a ball to send to a partner
waiting upstairs, using a rope pulley system. The upstairs partner will receive the ball, record its mass, launch the
ball back downstairs, and record the time it takes for the ball to reach the first floor again. Try this again and again,

record your findings, discover the relationship between mass and speed, and strengthen cooperation and teamwork
skills.

Construction Zone
Has your child expressed an interest in construction or architecture? If so, then the Construction Zone is a must-see
area of That Kids Plaice. Here, your child can experience firsthand the entire construction process, from designing
and building to demolition. First, your child can dress up in the part of an architect by donning a hard hat and a tool
belt. Next, he or she can make a drawing of the building that needs to be constructed. Finally, your child will put
together his or her building with screws, bolts, and wood pieces. Some tools are provided, but the Construction Zone
poses a challenge to all who desire to build: Which is easier, constructing something with your hands or with tools?
Spend some time in the Construction Zone and find out!

Color Wall
In this semi-enclosed room on the first floor, fun, catchy music plays while a rainbow of colors slips across a special
screen, the "Color Wall". Kids of all ages enter to dance and move in front of the screen, and an amazing thing
happensyour form blocks out the colors moving across the Color Wall, so your shadow moves right along with you,
right in front of you! At the Color Wall, experience the phenomenon of color recognition and detectionand learn a
few things about rhythm, too.

Water Table
Curving around a large area of the first floor is the Water Table, a fully interactive exhibit where your child can begin
to learn some basic principles about water and its properties. As a sign in the exhibit explains, by playing with water,
your child learns how to predict how liquids respond to gravity and the forces of push and pull.
Water play also teaches your child about pressure, motion, critical thinking, and problem solving. Here, by
manipulating water, you can learn what sinks, what floats, what moves slowly, and what moves quickly; your child will
gain a basic understanding of both waters properties and also how to work with those properties, as they strive to
construct devices that stay afloat in the Water Table.

Manipulative Area
In the Manipulative Area of Science Central, you and your child will learn about points, lines, and curves through
rubber band art! A large pegboard is set up with stretchy bands of fabric below the pegs, and your goal is to create
shapes and designs on the pegboard by stretching the fabric bands from one peg to another. Here, you will explore
the fundamentals of shape formation; according to the sign in the Manipulative Area, all lines and curves are made of
series of points, and all shapes are made of curves and lines. In the Manipulative Area, what kinds of lines, curves,
and shapes will you make, using only bands and pegs? Design your own, or follow the patterns provided for you.
(This will be the second activity we will be doing, got this off Boonshoft.com)
Dinosaurs, Fossils & More!
Young paleontologists will really dig this class. Kids will examine real fossils and excellent reproductions of dinosaur
teeth and skin. Students will learn about dinosaurswhat they ate and why, measure out the distance to see how big
they really were and why their hips make a difference. The children will also create their own fossils and build a

volcano that actually erupts!

* Warning this class is messy; please dress appropriately.*

Standards:
Core Standard:
Observe living organisms, compare and contrast their characteristics, and ask questions
about them.
K.3.1 Observe and draw physical features of common plants and animals.
K.3.2 Describe and compare living animals in terms of shape, texture of body covering,
size, weight, color and the way they move.
K.3.3 Describe and compare living plants in terms of growth, parts, shape, size,
color and texture.
Core Standard:
Observe, manipulate, sort and generate questions about objects and their physical
properties.
K.1.1. Use all senses as appropriate to observe, sort and describe objects according to their
composition and physical properties, such as size, color and shape. Explain these choices
to others and generate questions about the objects.
K.1.2 Identify and explain possible uses for an object based on its properties and
compare these uses with other students ideas.

Safety issues:
-Peanut allergies, and any other allergies
-Any health conditions

Chaperones:
The teacher will pass out slips for the parents to sign if they would like to
chaperone. The teacher will let the parents know she will randomly choose 5

chaperones that will be joining them on the field trip. She will then call up
the parents that were chosen to let them know they will be attending the
field trip.

Bus:
We will be renting a first class bus that will cost $1.50 for a person. That
would be around $36 dollars including teachers, students, and 5 chaperons.

Food/Drinks:
The parents will pack lunches for their kids. I am requesting the food should
be placed into a brown paper bag so its easier to throw away. Luckily we
dont have any student allergic to peanut butter so you may pack a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich. The kids will need to pack something healthy in
their lunch pack to. The child may bring water bottles to drink through the
trip and during lunch.

Fees and policies of Boonshoft Museum:

You must schedule at least 2 weeks prior to your actual visit

Two adults at least 18 years of age are required for every 10 students
and are admitted free
Other adults visitors are charged according to program
Classroom programs are $6.50/student, $5.50/adult
Each additional program during the same visit is $2.50/student,
$2.50/adult
Must be cash, check, purchase order, MasterCard/visa

Overall fee-($180 for students to go to Boonshoft

Museum, $38.50 for adults, $36 for bus ride. = $254.50
Reflection Activities: Once the kids return back to school on Thursday
the teacher well set up an experiment. The teacher will ask the students a
couple of questions. For example how did the volcano erupt? What materials
were used to make the volcano? The teacher will have the materials in front
of them and see if the students can remember how the materials went in the
volcano. Once the students figured it out the teacher and the teacher aide
will demonstrate how the volcano erupted.