2024-25 Field Trips & In-School Programs

Scroll to the bottom of this page for program fees and Florida standards correlations. 

Book a Field Trip to the Oxbow Eco-Center & Preserve or an In-School Program here.

Call the Oxbow Eco-Center at (772) 785 - 5833 or email Kirsi Johnson at johnsonki@stlucieco.org for more information.

Florida's State Academic Standards Correlations

SC.K.L.14.3 Observe plants and animals, describe how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.

SC.K.N.1.5 Recognize that learning can come from careful observation.

SC.1.L.14.1 Make observations of living things and their environment using the five senses.

SC.1.L.14.3 Differentiate between living and nonliving things.

SC.1.L.16.1 Make observations that plants and animals closely resemble their parents, but variations exist among individuals within a population.

SC.1.L.17.1 Through observation, recognize that all plants and animals, including humans, need the basic necessities of air, water, food, and space.

SC.2.L.17.1 Compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival.

SC.2.L.17.2 Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs.

SC.4.L.16.3 Recognize that animal behaviors may be shaped by heredity and learning.

SC.4.L.17.1 Compare the seasonal changes in Florida plants and animals to those in other regions of the country.

SC.4.L.17.4 Recognize ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment.

SS.4.G.1.3 Explain how weather impacts Florida.

SC.5.L.15.1 Describe how, when the environment changes, differences between individuals allow some plants and animals to survive and reproduce while others die or move to new locations.

SC.5.L.17.1 Compare and contrast adaptations displayed by animals and plants that enable them to survive in different environments such as life cycles variations, animal behaviors and physical characteristics.

SC.5.E.7.5 Recognize that some of the weather-related differences, such as temperature and humidity, are found among different environments, such as swamps, deserts, and mountains.

Let's Talk Trash

SC.K.P.8.1 Sort objects by observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light) and texture.

SC.K.P.9.1 Recognize that the shape of materials such as paper and clay can be changed by cutting, tearing, crumpling, smashing, or rolling.

SC.K.N.1.5 Recognize that learning can come from careful observation.

SC.1.L.14.3 Differentiate between living and nonliving things.

SC.1.P.8.1 Sort objects by observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light), texture, and whether objects sink or float.

SC.1.E.6.3 Recognize that some things in the world around us happen fast and some happen slowly.

SC.1.N.1.2 Using the five senses as tools, make careful observations, describe objects in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion, and compare their observations with others.

SC.2.P.8.1 Observe and measure objects in terms of their properties, including size, shape, color, temperature, weight, texture, sinking or floating in water, and attraction and repulsion of magnets.

SC.3.P.8.3 Compare materials and objects according to properties such as size, shape, color, texture, and hardness.

SC.4.P.8.1 Measure and compare objects and materials based on their physical properties including: mass, shape, volume, color, hardness, texture, odor, taste, attraction to magnets.

SC.4.P.9.1 Identify some familiar changes in materials that result in other materials with different characteristics, such as decaying animal or plant matter, burning, rusting, and cooking.

SC.5.P.8.2 Investigate and identify materials that will dissolve in water and those that will not and identify the conditions that will speed up or slow down the dissolving process.

SC.5.P.9.1 Investigate and describe that many physical and chemical changes are affected by temperature.

Wetland Wonders

SC.3.P.9.1 Describe the changes water undergoes when it changes state through heating and cooling by using familiar scientific terms such as melting, freezing, boiling, evaporation, and condensation.

SC.3.N.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them individually and in teams through free exploration and systematic investigations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.

SC.3.N.1.3 Keep records as appropriate, such as pictorial, written, or simple charts and graphs, of investigations conducted.

SC.3.N.3.2 Recognize that scientists use models to help understand and explain how things work.

SC.3.N.3.3 Recognize that all models are approximations of natural phenomena; as such, they do not perfectly account for all observations.

SC.4.E.6.3 Recognize that humans need resources found on Earth and that these are either renewable or nonrenewable.

SC.4.E.6.6 Identify resources available in Florida (water, phosphate, oil, limestone, silicon, wind, and solar energy).

SC.4.N.1.6 Keep records that describe observations made, carefully distinguishing actual observations from ideas and inferences about the observations.

SC.4.N.3.1 Explain that models can be three dimensional, two dimensional, an explanation in your mind, or a computer model.

SS.4.G.1.1 Identify physical features of Florida.

SS.4.G.1.3 Explain how weather impacts Florida.

SC.5.E.7.1 Create a model to explain the parts of the water cycle. Water can be a gas, a liquid, or a solid and can go back and forth from one state to another.

SC.5.E.7.2 Recognize that the ocean is an integral part of the water cycle and is connected to all of Earth's water reservoirs via evaporation and precipitation processes.

Florida History & Habitats

SS.3.G.3.1 Describe the climate and vegetation in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

SS.3.G.3.2 Describe the natural resources in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

SC.4.E.6.6 Identify resources available in Florida (water, phosphate, oil, limestone, silicon, wind, and solar energy).

SS.4.A.3.1 Identify explorers who came to Florida and the motivations for their expeditions.

SS.4.A.4.2 Describe pioneer life in Florida.

SS.4.A.9.1 Utilize timelines to sequence key events in Florida history.

SS.4.G.1.1 Identify physical features of Florida.

SS.4.G.1.3 Explain how weather impacts Florida.

SS.5.A.3.2 Investigate (nationality, sponsoring country, motives, dates and routes of travel, accomplishments) the European explorers.

SS.5.A.4.1 Identify the economic, political and socio-cultural motivation for colonial settlement.