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The "Caterpillar" offers two science-based, Oregon benchmark-aligned programs each year. Each program has four hands-on activity stations and, depending on the age group, an activity journal to help students focus. In addition to this wealth of hands-on activities, each program includes an experiment reinforcing the steps of scientific inquiry.
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Programs (noting activity stations) that have been presented include:
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- Cycles
- Water cycle
- Decomposers: worms (including an
experiment)
- Animal cycles: butterflies, frogs, etc
- Plant cycles, seasons, photosynthesis
- It's a Small World (geography & ecology)
- Cardinal directions and reading map
- Migration and Endangered Species
using maps
- Flight and feathers
- Plant origins with longitude and latitude
- Riddles in Biodiversity (including
classification, habitats, adaptation)
- Vertebrates (mammals, reptiles,etc)
- Invertebrates (insects, arachnids,etc)
- Adaptations & Habitat:wetland, desert)
- Habitats: meadow, forest, ocean
- Invisible Waves (a magic show)
- Light
- Color
- Sound (with experiment)
- Electricity
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- Rock 'n' Roots
- Minerals
- Rocks
- Fossils
- Soil (with experiment)
- The Eco-Web
- Oak woodlands
- Ants (decomposers)
- Ants (decomposers)
- Food chains and webs
- Night and Day
- Astronomy
- Nocturnal creatures (bats, owls)
- Solar energy & photosynthesis
- Weather
- Adaptations
- Plants (with experiment)
- Mammals
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Insects
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Programs in development include:
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- Water
- Water cycle
- Water ecology and testing
- Wetlands and water habita
- Water plants, hydroponics
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- Siskiyou Mountains:
- Flora
- Fauna
- Geology
- Geography
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