Seventh Grade Interim Trip

List of 6 items.

• 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.

• 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!
  • The Steamship William G. Mather (1925): “The Ship That Built Cleveland,” student board the freighter that brought steel to Cleveland and explore relationship between technology, history, commerce, and the environment. 

• 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:
  

  • “Hip-Hop at 50” - an immersive, multi-media exhibit of the hip-hop phenomenon 
  • “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?

• 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 Guardians vs. Cincinnati Reds baseball game

  At Progressive Field Wednesday, September 25 at 6:40 p.m.
  

  • The AL Central-leading Guardians face their intrastate and National League rivals as Cleveland battles for a playoff spot!

• Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

  The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo features Over 180 acres of habitats from around the world, including:
  

  • One of the largest collections of primates in North America
  • The RainForest, one of the park’s most popular attractions
  • We’ll explore the park’s attention to wildlife habitat and conservation as well.