FIELD TRIPS for the School Year - New Year -2009
End of Year Field Trips – March, April d on into summer 09
Check http://www.spaceneedle.com/skyschool/
Grades 9-12 - $7. Kindergarten- 8th grade - $5.
10 AM - download lesson plans and scavenger hunt from the website!
WA State History Museum – Thursday, April 16
Free Admission 2-8pm
New exhibits: Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes
Animals and Acrobats: Circus Posters from the WA State Historical Society
Washington Then and Now
WITH OUR HANDS: World Folk Art Traditions of Washington
Safeco and Qwest Field Tours- This has been CANCELLED
Tentative date- not scheduled, perhaps fall 2009
10:30am ...Safeco Field, 12:30pm.... Qwest Field
Tour one of the Premier Baseball facilities ever built, including areas of the ballpark that are not normally open to the public: press box, luxury suites, dugout and visitor’s clubhouse. Cameras welcome!
Group ticket price- to be determined
Possibility—after touring these Athletic Fields- we may come back to watch a Mariner’s Game at 7:05pm that night. Ticket prices still TBD.
Tacoma Rainiers Baseball Game- and fireworks show afterwards!
FRIDAY August 14- 7pm
against Iowa Cubs, Fireworks following the game
Ticket Prices:
$15 (Group Double Play): includes ticket, hot dog, chips, and soda, game program,
Limited Edition Tacoma Rainiers hat, and group recognition during the game on our scoreboard.
$9.50 (Group Express): includes all of the above minus the hat.
Friday, August 14, 2009 @ 7:00pm - Tacoma Rainiers vs. Iowa Cubs
All up-to-date information can be found at the Field Trip table, every Monday, from 1st period until the end of 4th period @ HCH.
Clipboards for EACH field trip contain information about the trip, and a place to sign up. Please name every person going on field trip, (including parent) along with the student's age and the parent's cell phone and home number. There is also a place to indicate if you want to car-pool, or meet beforehand to follow each other.
If Amy Small is not at the table to answer your questions, you can always write her a note and leave it on the table or telephone her at home. Her email address is: smallharbor@comcast.net
Home telephone is 858-7296 or cell # 651-2743
old news.....January 2009 -3 EVENTS
Thursday January 8- 9AM
Tour the Gig Harbor Civic Center- meet the Mayor, visit Court Rooms, and see the Police Headquarters.
Wednesday January 14 - 1PM
Peninsula Gateway Newspaper Tour- with Hugh McMillan
Friday January 23 - 10AM (one hour show)
Lewis and Clark: West for America Admiral Theatre, Bremerton
David Walburn presents this musical performance that relives the epic Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804 in song and imagery as the Corps of Discovery travel more than 8,000 miles in search of the fabled Northwest Passage.
Thursday Oct. 16 Northwest Trek, Meet at NW Trek parking lot @ 9:45 am
Amy will hand out yellow smiley face wristbands - that is your admission ticket
Friday Oct. 24 9 am - tour will take approx. 1 hour
Gig Harbor Civic Center- tour court room, mayor/council chambers, community service and planning/financial offices.
Police Department -
11 am - 2nd tour of the day- Fire Department- Fire prevention/safety presentation, Approx. 1 hour
Coming in NOVEMBER - Fox Island Historical Museum visit, Peninsula Gateway newspaper visit
DECEMBER- nothing will be booked during this very busy time of year!
the following is just my idea "work page"...details and confirmation to follow
Boeing Tour- (the field trip co=ordinator was not able to go last time it was on)
Weyerhauser ?
Peninsula Gateway newspaper
Admiral Children's Theatre - Lewis and Clark- Jan.2009. Phantom tollbooth- March 2009
Tacoma Youth Symphony
Sunday, October 26, 2008
3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Costume Concerts
to benefit the TYSA Scholarship Fund
Joint Performance with the Tacoma Young Artists Orchestra
Come dressed as your favorite movie character!Star Wars....................................................................................John Williams
Pirates of the Caribbean....................................................................................Craig Eastman
Music from Fantasia....................................................................................TBA
Lion King Selections....................................................................................Elton John
Route 66 from Cars....................................................................................Bobby Troup
Battlepoint Astronomical Assoc.- Bainbridge Is.
Tacoma Astronomical society
North Seattle Lapidary and Mineral Club - rock tumbling
Seattle Central Library- (1 hour tour) sounder train up to downtown
Olympic Sculpture Park- (Seattle)outdoor sculptures Seattle
Port Of Seattle tour - SeaTac Airport, Seattle Harbor
Fire Dept.
UW Fish collection-
UW Fish Collection
As part of their Outreach Program, the Fish Collection hosts tours (FREE of charge).
The tours are available to any age group and any time of the year. The maximum group size is 25 students.
The tour normally takes about 1.5-2.0 hours and consists of two parts. The first part involves a tour
of our facilities where we prepare, catalog, archive, and conduct research on our museum holdings
that total nearly 130,000 jars and vials, and roughly 3,500 species, of preserved fish specimens.
You will see how a natural history collection of this magnitude is arranged and managed,
in addition to learning about its importance and its uses.
The second part of the tour involves a "hands-on" look at some of the more interesting examples of fish diversity.
Fishes are the most diverse group of vertebrates (the large group of animals to which we belong),
with roughly 25,000 living and fossil species formally described by science. During the course of history,
fishes have evolved a remarkable array of body shapes and behavior, and have radiated into nearly all aquatic habitats.
Using our teaching collection of preserved specimens, they show you, and allow you to handle many interesting and
unusual fishes from around the world and discuss the evolutionary adaptive significance of their morphology.
The maximum group size that can be accommodated is 25 people. This size limit includes teachers and parents.
Larger classes can be split into two tours. Reservations are required and should be made well in advance
by calling Katherine Maslenikov,
Collection Manager, at (206) 543-3816 or by contacting her via e-mail (pearsonk@u.washington.edu ).
UW Meany Hall
The UW World Series presents outstanding special student matinee performances during the school year. They are part of Meany Hall's UW World Dance Series.
Each of these 50-minute matinee events is especially geared for students in grades 3-12. The events can be matinee performances and/or lecture demonstrations
by dance companies such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and DanceBrazil
Contact Jan Steadman, Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, Box 351150, Seattle, WA 98195-1150, Telephone: (206) 685-0995, Fax: (206) 685-2759, sjan@u.washington.edu
UW Patient Simulation Center
Student groups can visit a full-scale mannequin which breathes
has a pulse, heart and breath sounds; responds to over 90 medications
and can simulate over 30 critical events in medical and surgical patients.
Participants are allowed to administer an anesthetic to the mannequin
and feel what it is like to be an anesthesiologist.
Subject Area: Medicine, Sciences
Target Population: classrooms, schools Grade: 4 through 12
When Offered: Year-round
Location: UW Seattle campus
Fee: None
Contact Information: Brian K. Ross, Ph.D., M.D. Department of Anesthesiology
Box, 356540 Seattle, WA 98195,
Telephone: (206) 543-6814 Fax: (206) 685-3079, bkross@u.washington.edu
UW Aeronautics and Astronautics Lab Tours
The UW Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics offers tours of its labs.
These include the Control and Robotics Laboratory, the Wind Tunnel, the Water Tunnel,
the Ram Accelerator, and Remote Piloted Vehicle. Reservations are required.
A request form is available on their web site. The outreach coordinator can be reached at (206) 543-1950.