Learning Expeditions

Pre-Kindergarten
Night (Life and Earth: Living Things and Earth’s Materials)
Tomatoes (Life and Earth: Living Things and Earth’s Materials)

Kindergarten
Movement (Physical Science)
Frogs (Life Science: Animal Study-Classification)

First Grade
Ants and Bees (Life Science: Specific Animal Study – Basic Adaptations for Survival and Offspring/Life Cycle)
Family and Cultural Traditions in the United States (History Intensive)
Notable People, Places, Holidays, and Patriotic Symbols (Civics Intensive)
Soil and Wiggly Wonderful Worms (Earth Science: Earth Materials)

Second Grade
Urban Gardening – Part II (Earth Science: Impact of Weather and Seasons on Environment and Organisms)
Aurora: A New Dawn (History and Geography: Our Local Community, Then & Now) 
South Africa (History and Geography)

Third Grade
Long Journey Home (Earth & Physical Science: Natural Cycles)
The Regions of the U.S. and Colorado (Geography and Economics)
Key to Keystone Species (Earth and Physical Science: Natural Cycles) 

Fourth Grade
Simple Machines (Physical Science: Energy in many forms)
Shakin’ Up the West (History and Geography: Colorado History and Change Over Time)
The Stories Fossils Tell Us (Life Science: Structures & Systems) 

Fifth Grade
Soak up the Sun (Earth and Physical Science: Energy, Weather, and Space)
South American Conquest (History, Geography, and Economics: Civilizations)
Foundations of US Government (History and Civics: Early American History) 

Sixth Grade
Would you Drink that Water? (Physical and Earth Science/Properties of Matter and Earth’s Materials)
Gotta Get the Goods: To the Victors Go the Spoils (History and Economics: Ancient Civilizations of the Western Hemisphere)
West Africa: Gold Trade to Slave Trade (Natural Resources and the Market Economy of the Eastern Hemisphere)
The Winds of Change (History and Geography/Development and Change in the Western Hemisphere)

Seventh Grade
We All Live Downstream: The Endangered Platte River (Life Science/Ecosystem Health and Endangered Species)
Ancient Greece and Rome (Humanities)
Geology (Science)
East Meets West—Lessons from the Silk Road (History and Economics—Silk Road Humanities)
Disease: Nature or Nurture? (Structure, Function, and Biological Evolution)
East Meets West—Lessons in Civil Disobedience (History and Civics—Civil Disobedience Then and Now)

Eighth Grade
Half-Pipe Physics (Physical Science/Energy, Motion, and Reactions)
From Gold Trade to Slave Trade (History and Economics/Natural Resources and the Market Economy of the Eastern Hemisphere)
All Men are Created Equal? (History/Civics)
Harnessing Power vs. Battling the Elements (Earth Science)
The Future of Food (Life Science/ Structure, Function, and Biological Evolution)
The Long Road to Equality—Reconstruction, the Law, and Civil Rights (History/Civics)