Seventh Grade Interim Trip

List of 6 items.

• Great Lakes Science Center

  At Great Lakes Science Center, students explore hands-on exhibits on electricity and magnetism, light and optics, motion and mechanics, wind and solar power, and the environment of Great Lakes.
  
  Highlights include:
  

  • NASA Glenn Visitor Center: one of 11 NASA centers in the country, where students explore the past, present, and future of space travel through artifacts from John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission, demonstrations, and augmented reality. 
  • The Dome Theater: six stories tall, shows movies including Dinosaurs of Antarctica, 700 million years ago when the continent was Gondwana — and a preview of earth science topics this year!

• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an iconic museum of the history of rock and roll, students listen to music through the decades and learn its social and economic impact. 
  
  Exhibits include:

  • “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll”
  • The “Garage,” where students can pick up and play instruments in a studio
  • Musically impactful cities, including Detroit
  • Students will take on a research project researching a person who is, or is not, in the Rock Hall, as well as connections to Detroit — how is Motown depicted in the Rock Hall?

• Cleveland Museum of Natural History

  Named "one of the world's most beautiful museums" (Prix Versailles), the newly renovated Cleveland Museum of Natural History provides stunning, interactive exhibits of anthropology, astronomy, geology, zoology, and more — a great preview for the 7^th grade earth science curriculum! Exhibits include: 

  • a seismic simulator demonstrating volcanic eruptions of different magnitudes;
  • a lifelike recreation of an early hominid affectionately dubbed "Lucy," a 3.2 million-year-old upright-walking female, discovered in Ethiopia by the museum curator in 1973;
  • a long-necked dinosaur skeleton Haplocanthosaurus;
    an extensive gem and mineral collection showing their everyday uses;
  • the Wildlife Center and Woods Garden, where students experience animals in natural habitats from walkways around and above the gardens. 

• Cleveland Museum of Art

  Through design- and play-based activities that connect art with students' lives, the Cleveland Museum of Art breaks traditional barriers for art museum engagement with a curated and hands-on experience of its world-renowned collection.

   

  Highlights include

  • a Gallery Exploration led by a museum educator highlighting the museum’s holdings, including its famous Armory Court, an outdoor bronze casting of Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker and much more! 
  • the museum’s ArtLens Gallery, innovative and interactive experience where students discover and engage with the museum’s collection and can create their own art using award-winning digital technology.
  • Wade Park, a 63-acre campus that houses the museum, sculpture, and gardens, available for exploration, lunch, and play.

• Goodtime III Sightseeing Cruise

  A two-hour narrated cruise down the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie, the Goodtime III Sightseeing Cruise:
  

  • Showcases the history of the city from the water perspective as well as spectacular views of downtown.
  • We’ll see how Cleveland uses its shoreline and compare with Detroit when we visit in the spring.

• Cleveland Botanical Garden

  The Cleveland Botanical Garden features 10 acres of gardens and a conservatory of plant and animal life from the desert of Madagascar to the forests of Costa Rica. Students can also enjoy live music on a late summer evening throughout the gardens.