Field Trips for Primary Schools

Overview

In this field trip, students go deep into the world of rocks. They learn about the layers of the Earth focusing on the surface crust. They learn about the different types of rocks and how they are formed with some special features from the UAE.

Case Study

Investigate the different types of rocks, fossils and minerals to better understand the foundations of our planet!

Activities

1. Tour of the Emirates Soil Museum.
2. Become a geologist and use your rock pick to find and collect your samples.
3. Inspect your rock samples and identify them using a rock guide
4. Create your own rock or fossil model and take it home!

Topics Addressed

1. Layers of the Earth
2. Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic rocks
3. Minerals and their relation to rocks and crystals
4. Rocks as the parent materials of soils
5. Fossils and how they are formed

Overview

Students learn about how soil is formed and how the parent rocks and their minerals affect the kind of soil we have. They learn to distinguish between soils based on color, texture and size.

Case Study

Crime at the museum! Somebody stole all the displays and their labels! They have been retrieved but we need your help in identifying the types of soils, so we could label them correctly.

Activities

1. Tour of the Emirates Soil Museum.
2. Analyze your soil samples to crack the case:
   • Water holding capacity
   • pH test 
   • Color categorization
3. Create your own painting using soil and take it home! 
    

Topics Addressed

1. Soil formation
2. Group different soils together
3. Connect properties of parent rocks to soil types
4. 3 main soil types: sand, silt and clay
5. Reading and understanding maps

Overview

Students learn about what happens underground: from plant leaves falling to the organisms decomposing them to their return as nutrients to plants and later to humans as food. The focus of the trip is on biodiversity. 

Case Study

You are biologists tasked with gathering data about the number and types of life one could find in the UAE.

Activities

1. Tour of the Emirates Soil Museum.
2. Scavenger hunt for insects in the museum garden.
3. Inspect collected insects with magnifying glasses and record data.
4. Create a model of your favorite bug, paint it and take it home!
    

Topics Addressed

1. Soil life cycle
2. Soil food web
3. Plants’ role in soil
4. Animals’ role in soil
5. Insects and micro-organisms that live in soil
6. Decomposition and food
7. Reading and understanding maps