This interactive class introduces students to egg-laying animals like insects, amphibians, birds, and reptiles. Students will observe and compare live animals and different types of eggs.
California Science Standards: K.2a
FOSS Links: Animals Two by Two, Plants and Animals, Insects and Plants

Storybook animals come to life as young children journey into the world of a favorite nature story, enjoy an exploration activity, and visit with a live animal. Choose from one of these stories:

• Log Hotel and visit from millipede and/or snake
• What Do I Do With a Tail Like This? and visit from American Kestrel and/or gopher snake, and/or domestic rat
• My Five Senses and visit from hedgehog and/or rubber boa and/or ferret

California Science Standards: K.2a-c
FOSS Links: Animals Two by Two, Plants and Animals, Insects and Plants

Millipedes, worms, and snails - are they pests or pals? Roll up your sleeves and get ready to dig in as we look at the beneficial roles these critters play in our daily lives. Students learn about how detritivores aid in decomposition and create soil by observing earthworms, using magnifiers to get a larger look at small animals, and meeting animal guests.
California Science Standards: K.2a,c, 1.2a
FOSS Links: Animals Two by Two, Plants and Animals, Insects and Plants

Explore the basic coverings of mammals, birds, reptiles, and arthropods. Students can touch and talk about similarities, differences, and functions of each type of covering, plus see some wonderful live examples of animals that are covered in fur, feathers, scales, or exoskeletons.
California Science Standards: K.2a, 1.2a
FOSS Links: Animals Two by Two, Plants and Animals, Insects and Plants

In Eco-Art Drawing, students investigate color, contrast, line, shape, value, and pattern through pencil, earth pigment pastels, and willow charcoal.
California Art Standards: PK 1.1-3, 2.2,3,6 4.2-4, K 1.1-3, 2.1, 4.1,3,4, 1 1.1,3, 2.1,4,7,8, 4.1-4,
2 1.1, 3, 2.1,3-5, 4.1-4, 3 1.1, 3, 5, 4.2, 4 1.1, 5 2.6-8 5 1.1-3, 2.7 6 1.1, 211, 3, 4.1

Eco Art gardening mixes earth stewardship with large scale 3-dimensional and 4-dimensional art (planted installations that change over time). Gardening projects vary with the season, and may include garden design, earth mound construction,planting food and native plant gardens, and building scarecrows or other items with natural and recycled materials. Students will work in the Museum's garden or surrounding park.
California Art Standards: PK 1.1-3, 2.2,3,6 4.2-4, K 1.1-3, 2.1, 4.1,3,4, 1 1.1,3, 2.1,2,4,7,8, 4.1-4,
2 1.1, 3, 2.1,3-5, 4.1-4 3 1.1-3, 1.5 2.2 4.2 4 1.1, 5 2.6-8 5 1.1-3, 2.7 6 1.1, 4.1

Students will make paintings that focus on and benefit our natural environment. While exploring and observing natural phenomena in the park, garden, and Museum, they will investigate color mixing, brush handling, contrast, line, shape, value, and sustainable practices. They may use watercolors, washable tempera, and make their own paints from plant and earth material.
California Art Standards: PK 1.1-3, 2.2,3,6 4.2-4, K 1.1-3, 2.1, 4.1,3,4, 1 1.1,3, 2.1,2,4,7,8, 4.1-4,
2 1.1, 3, 2.1,3-5, 4.1-4 3 1.1-3, 1.5 2.2 4.2 4 1.1, 5 2.6-8 5 1.1-3, 2.7 6 1.1, 4.1

Students will make “no trash” sculptures in nature using natural and recycled materials. Students will explore forms, shapes, attachment, color, and scale as they build. Projects’ size and complexity adjust to the needs of your group and may range from forming small clay nests to constructing child-sized forts.
California Art Standards: PK 1.1-3, 2.2,3,6 4.2-4, K 1.1-3, 2.1, 4.1,3,4, 1 1.1,3, 2.1,3,4,7,8, 4.1-4,
2 1.1, 3, 2.1,3-5, 4.1-4 3 1.1, 2.5, 4.2 4 1.1, 5 2.3 5 1.1-3, 2.5, 7 6 1.1, 4.1

Students use natural and recycled materials to invent toys of their own design. Projects may include puppets; math games; drums; small rock, shell and nut games; balls, rock puzzles; and willow bark jump ropes.
California Art Standards: PK 1.1-3, 2.2,3,6 4.2-4, K 1.1-3, 2.1, 4.1,3,4, 1 1.1,3, 2.1,3,4,7,8, 4.1-4,
2 1.1, 3, 2.1,3-5, 4.1-4, 3 1.1, 4.2 4 1.1, 5 5 1.1-3, 2.7 6 1.1, 4.1

Reptiles have inhabited this planet for 340 million years! This program takes a focused look at some of the Museum’s amazing ectotherms. Observe the locomotion of a tortoise, patterns of a snake, or the blue tongue of a skink as we study the ancestors of dinosaurs.
California Science Standards: 3.3a,e
FOSS Links: Structures of Life

Learn about the animals that live at Coyote Point Museum, their special characteristics, adaptations, and native habitats. Wildlife staff will bring 4-6 live animals for a 30-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute question and answer session. Please note that, for the health of our animals, classroom pets cannot be present during the program. Choose from the following themes:

• Raptor Rap: Learn how to tell birds of prey apart from other birds and from each other. This is an exciting opportunity to see a variety of live raptors up close.  


• What’s the Difference: A fun, fast-paced program that helps visitors tell the difference between animals that are often mistaken for other animals. What’s the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? Why do people think that frogs and toads are the same animal?  


• The Food Web: Animals eat a multitude of different things, and don’t always fit into a single category (such as "predator" or "consumer").  


• Animal Defenses: Learn interesting ways that animals defend themselves against predators.


• Endangered Species: Find out what it means to be an extinct, endangered, or threatened species. Your group will have the opportunity to meet some threatened species and learn what they can do to help these amazing animals.

California Science Standards: K.2a, 1.2a-d, 2.2c,d, 3.3a,b, 4.2b, 6.5c
FOSS Links: Animals Two by Two, Plants and Animals, Insects and Plants, Structures of Life, Environments
This program can travel to Belmont, Burlingame, Foster City, Hillsborough, Millbrae, San Bruno, San Carlos, and San Mateo only.