What does an education visit include?
Elementary School, Grades K-2
Life on the Farm: tour Connemara Farms and lean what it was like raising goats with Mrs. Sandburg.
Rotations activities:
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led activity (Life Cycles: Monarch Metaphor activity)
- Teacher-led activity (Farm Life Interactive Puzzle Play)
- Discovery Hike/Activity
- Lunch break if requested
Elementary School, Grades 3-5
Sandburg Through Time: Students will explore Carl Sandburg through autobiography and poetry.
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led activity. (Connemara Clues, or Every Kid in a Park)
- Teacher-led activity. Prairie-Town Boy
- Hike / Write (Bio Poem)
- Lunch break if requested
Middle School, Grades 6-8
Through the Eyes of a Poet: Students explore the Sandburg family through artifacts, literature and science!
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led Genetics activity,
- Hike / Write / Journaling, (materials providied)
- Teacher-led: Sandburg Alive! poetry activity materials provided
- Lunch break if requested
High School, Grades 9-12
The Sandburg Spectrum: Students learn how Sandburg was often a voice for those who felt they had none.
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led - Poetry and Pictures
- Hike / Write / Video
- Teacher-led: Journaling – Reflections on the Rock
- Lunch break if requested