Wickenburg Outdoor Education Programs 2015-2016
Standards (3rd)
Concepts
Resource
Description
Venue (see below for
Equipment
contact info)
Identify the living and
Living , Nonliving,
nonliving components of Components, Ecosystem
an ecosystem
Trained Docents at
venues
1. Interpretive walk
2. Reinforcing activity
Explain the
interrelationships
among plants and
animals in different
environments:
Producers - plants
Consumers - animals
Decomposers – fungi,
insects, bacteria
Describe how plants and
animals cause change in
their environment
Interrelationships,
Trained Docents at
Plants Animals, Different venues
environments,
Producers, Consumers,
Decomposers
1. Interpretive walk
2. Reinforcing activity
Plants, Animals,
Environment
Trained Docents at
venues
1. Interpretive walk
2. Reinforcing activity
Identify adaptations of
plants and animals that
allow them to live in
specific environments
Adaptations, Plants,
Animals, Environment
Trained Docents at
venues
1. Interpretive walk
2. Reinforcing activity
Formulate relevant
questions about the
properties of objects,
organisms, and events
of the environment
using observations and
prior knowledge.
Describe fossils as a
record of past life forms.
Questions, Formulate,
Synthesis, Properties of
objects, Using
Organisms, Events of
the environment Prior
knowledge
Trained Docents at
venues
1. Interpretive walk
2. Reinforcing activity
Fossils, Record, Past life
forms
Archaeologist
Demonstration &
discussion
BR
DOC
HRP
MENT
SF
BR
DOC
HRP
MENT
SF
BR
DOC
HRP
MENT
SF
BR
DOC
HRP
MENT
SF
BR
DOC
HRP
MENT
SF
DOC
BR
HRP
Game & Fish box?
Wickenburg Outdoor Education Programs 2015-2016
Describe ways humans
use earth materials
(e.g., fuel, building
materials, growing
food).
Humans , Earth
materials
Trained Docents at
venues
1. Interpretive walk
2. Reinforcing activity
BR
DOC
HRP
MENT
SF
Wickenburg Outdoor Education Programs 2015-2016
Venue/Resource
Contact Person
Phone
Email
AZ Game & Fish Dept.
Craig Heath
BR- Boyd Ranch
Natalie Olson
928-684-2272
nolson@westernmuseum.org
DCWM - Desert Caballeros Western
Museum
DOC - Desert Outdoor Center
Natalie Olson
928-684-2272
nolson@westernmuseum.org
Adam Melle
(602) 372-7470 *208
adammelle@mail.maricopa.gov
HRP - Hassayampa River Preserve
Bernadine McCollum
928-684-2772
bmccollum@tnc.org
MENT - Morristown Elementary Nature
Trail
SF - Sohphies Flat
Lucy Thompson
623-546-5100
lthompson@morristowneld75.org
Bernadine McCollum
623-341-5977
wickenburgtrails@gmail.com
TOW - Town of Wickenburg
Tonya Forbrook
928-684-5451 ext. 1553
Tforbrook@wickenburgaz.org
cheath@azgfd.gov