Field Trip Resources
The activities below have been created to enrich your class visit to INFINITY Science Center. *Please plan to bring copies with you for your visit to INFINITY.
Boardwalk Nature Journals
Your students can have an Environmental Scientist experience as they take a walk along our 15,000 square foot biome boardwalk. By making observations and recording in their Biome Boardwalk Journal, they too can be a citizen scientist.
Upper Grade Biome Boardwalk Nature Journal
Lower Grade Biome Boardwalk Nature Journal
(Instructions: Download the PDF file. For best results, print the first two pages double sided and the last two pages double sided before assembling. Pages are numbered for your convenience.)
INFINITY Scavenger Hunts
Have your students search up, down and all around, carefully reading INFINITY exhibit details to complete INFINITY’s Scavenger Hunt(s).
Your students will have to pay close attention and use their science/space sleuthing skills to discover the answers. Are your students up for the challenge? INFINITY Scavenger Hunts are geared toward upper elementary and middle school aged students.
Exhibit Lesson Plans
Grades 4-5
Environmental Monitoring: Air Quality
Pre Visit: "Air Quality"
Post Visit: "3-2-1: What I Learned"
"Clean Air and Loving Every Minute of It!"
Environmental Monitoring: Oceans
Pre Visit: "How Do Scientists Collect Data?"
Post Visit: "Oh Buoy!"
"Webquest for Environmental Monitoring"
Hurricane Prediction Lab
Pre Visit: "Recipe for a Disaster: How to Create a Hurricane"
Post Visit: "Take a Spin with a Hurricane!"
Grades 6-8
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental Monitoring Lab: National Data Buoy Center
National Data Buoy Center Data Sheet
Serial Dilution Lab Answer Key
Hurricane Prediction Lab
Anticipated Responses to Swirling Vortices
Stucture of a Hurricane Student Sheet
Lesson: Wind Speed vs. Barometric Pressure
Data Chart for Wind Speed vs. Barometric Pressure
Sample Data Sheet for Wind Speed vs. Barometric Pressure
Post Visit Lesson: Convection (Lab Sheet)
3-D Movie Educator Guides
Journey to Space
Oceans: Our Blue Planet
