This program serves fifth-grade students from Central New Mexico. The curriculum focuses on ecosystems, with an emphasis on connections within ecosystems, and the importance of human connections to ecosystems. The faculty visit schools and lead a 90-minute lesson that focuses on the local ecosystem of the area.
Students participate in hands-on discovery activities outside on their school grounds.
The activities help students discover their local ecosystem and their connections to it. Every year we offer several Ecosystem Explorations workshops to fifth grade teachers of New Mexico. Many of the workshops take place at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. In addition, we are excited to offer workshops to groups of teachers in communities outside the Albuquerque area, hosted at a local school. The workshops are free and materials for implementing the lessons are provided.