Goldsmith-Schiffman Elementary

In January, our third grade classes took field trips to Cook Museum and Wheeler Wildlife Refuge. While at Wheeler, students learned about how the wildlife area was preserved as a wintering and migrating spot for birds in the eastern US. Conversations took place between our Earthscope guide and students about how our environment is impacted by humans, and the types of solutions that have been formed to overcome such problems by humans or environmental changes (like hurricanes or flooding). Students were also able to observe the wildlife at Wheeler through binoculars and learn how, like humans, plants and animals also inherit traits from their parents. Over 295 species of birds take advantage of Wheeler as a wintering or migrating space. We were even able to spot a whooping crane amid the thousands of sandhill cranes at Wheeler! Cook Museum allowed our students to explore through a scavenger hunt, while enjoying all the exhibits in the museum and reinforcing vocabulary and concepts we learned at Wheeler.