Earth Sciences Curriculum

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We offer an age-appropriate Earth Sciences curriculum to support your field trip! The activities target specific benchmarks in the Colorado Model Content Standards for Science, emphasizing the key learning concepts studied in most Earth Science classes. This curriculum takes all the work out of your field trip experience — download lesson plans & student worksheets, our post-tour student evaluation sheet and the parental permission slip.

Call 719-685-5444, ext. 5, or click here to reserve a field trip for kindergarten through 12th grade students.

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lesson plans & student worksheets

Grades K-4

Activity #1: Bats & Birds
Activity #2: Are All Caves the Same?
Activity #3: Create a Cave!

Grades 3-8

Activity #4: Don’t Touch!
Activity #5: Dissolving Limestone with Acid

Grades 6-8

Activity #6: Drip, Drip, Drip!
Activity #7: It’s a Small World

Grades 6-12

Activity #8: Not Just your Average Decoration

Grades 9-12

Activity #9: Perpetually in the Dark
Activity #10: Relative and Absolute Dating of Geologic Materials
Activity #11: Global Building Blocks: Rocks and Mineral Identification
Activity #12: Internal Structure of the Earth and Pangean Geography

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Post-Tour student evaluation sheet

Help us learn how we can improve by having your students fill out a report card and grading their field trip to Cave of the Winds.

• Report card for grades K-4
• Report card for grades 5-8
• Report card for High School students

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Download Parental Permission slip