Education

Customized Field Trips

The Flint Children's Museum offers customized field trips to enhance your museum experience! These activities are selected in advance of the field trip and are conducted by museum program staff. Customized field trip sessions are routinely 30 minutes or less, and are conducted in a classroom setting. There are no additional charges for these activities.

Choose ONE of the three special programs that related to the monthly theme.

April 2011 - Save It

• Can I Recycle This? - This program can be done for any age group - from 3 to adult. Particpants are shown an array of items and must decide whether they can be recycled or not. They are given three choices: actual garbage (can't be recycled), is recyclable (place in correct bin - paper, glass, metal), or is hazardous waste (are told correct disposal method). Adults are given a list of places in Genesee County where recyclables may be sent (if their locality doesn't have curbside recycling). Younger children are given fewer and easier items and play more active guessing games to learn what they can do to help recycling efforts.

• Reduce, Recycle, Re-Use - Participants learn how they can reduce the amount of waste they themselves produce. They learn how much water they waste during a day and ways to reduce their use of it and electricity. We talk about buying items in recyclable containers to minimize waste. Finally, all are given an item that they must find another use for, to show how we can re-use  quite a bit of what we throw away.

• Renewable Resources - "The Life of the Forest" This program is for 2nd grade and older. We discuss renewable and nonrenewable resources, then use trees as an example of how, if managed correctly, they can be a renewable resource for generations to come. Students learn how we use wood in our daily lives and how replanting will keep future children in pencils for years to come!