The Writer's Garret
The Secret Footprints--How Folktales pass on history and values
According to a Dominican legend, ciquapas are a mythical tribe that only comes out a night because they are afraid of being captured by humans. What can we learn when a curious ciquapa is befriended by a human family?...
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MCP Shows - In school performing artists
Jungle Fun with Safari Cinde - Let's READ! - asynchronous (pre-recorded)
Jungle Fun is a 45 - 50 minute presentation by Safari Cinde encouraging the adventures of Reading using wild animal puppets through storytelling, magic and music.. The love of reading can take children on adventures through imagination and creativity. The show is introduced with a five foot ostrich ...
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The Artist Outreach
Creating Songs Using Mathematics
Students will create rhythms by using the award winning, RHYTHM CLOCK manipulative, which combines math concepts and music into one teaching manipulative tool (distributed through RBI Instruments). With this tool, students will create rhythmic patterns for the original song while associating fracti...
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USA Film Festival / Kid Film
KIDFILM 2024: IN-THEATER MOVIE FIELD TRIPS (Grade 4-5)
KidFilm is a TEKs based visual arts program that brings classroom books to life on the big screen. A majority of films are book-based works (that can be found in your school library) designed to help reinforce literacy skills and includes a variety of classroom topics such as the arts, math, social...
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Chefsville Kids
Science Chefs in Motion (Classroom Program) On Campus 2024
Join us in the journey of "motion through cooking", where students learn will both kitchen safety and the use of motion in the culinary world!
The program demonstrates different kitchen equipment and cooking techniques that will help students identify different forms of thermal and kinetic energ...
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The Writer's Garret
BookMarks! Empathy: fishing in "A Different Pond" (In Person Workshop)
Empathy is our ability to understand and experience how others feel. We can use our empathy to understand a situation and support our community. Participants in this workshop will explore the concept of empathy by finding examples of empathy while listening to the story of a young boy and his father...
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Dallas Zoo
Wild Walks: Food Chains & Webs
Investigate how energy and living things are connected in the animal kingdom. Observe predators and prey, carnivores and herbivores, and discover the important roles they play in the food chain....
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Chefsville Kids
Math Chefs (Virtual/Asynchronous) 2024
Math Chefs is a virtual self-paced program where students learn to connect math and cooking. They’ll learn to identify the shapes, fractions, units of measurement, sequencing, patterns, and temperatures, among other problem-solving opportunities that are found in the culinary world.
The program ...
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Dallas Arboretum
All About Ants! Traits and Behaviors (Field Trip)
Take a closer look at ants! In this lab, students explore and describe inherited traits and learned behaviors while observing live ants. First, students observe and identify the inherited traits ants share with all insects and those traits that make ants unique. Then, they discuss the behaviors of ...
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