SOAR
Student Events
SOAR
works with area agencies and volunteers to
create learning events designed to increase
background knowledge and vocabulary--essentials
for academic achievement! Beyond knowledge
and skills, the students explore careers and
experience authentic environments. Many
events also involve teens in a leadership role.
Teachers register by sending their
classroom counts and scheduling information to
soar@esu13.org
or by calling 308-635-0661.
Enrichment Events
 Trip Through Time
Kindergarteners visit the North Platte Valley Museum to meet volunteers who share activities involving Tools, Toys, and
Tales of the past. They wash clothes on a scrub board and skip a rope they
make themselves!
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Schedule -- Photos
 Zoo Quest, Riverside Zoo
Teachers of second grade--please call Riverside Zoo at 630-6236 to schedule your second
grade class's individual 1.5 hour visit to Riverside Zoo. The entry costs for
the first 400 students signed up will be covered by grants from local Kiwanis
organizations.
Details --
Schedule -- Photos
 Body Walk
Third graders enter the human body to explore the digestive and
circulatory systems and the importance of nutrition and physical fitness.
Dieticians, doctors, physical therapists,
dentists, nurses, and more volunteers concerned
about children's health lead the fast-paced
imaginative sessions.
Details --
Schedule -- Photos
 Historic
School
Fourth graders pack their lunch buckets, put on their bonnet or bibbies and
"ride their horse" to Historic School where they step back in time and
experience a day of school in 1888. Banner County Historical Society and
the Dawes County Museum co-sponsor these visits.
Details -- Schedule --
Flowerfield School Banner County
Museum
 FARM:
Tools and Technology Through Time
Fourth graders visit stations with historic agricultural
processes
while learning about how simple machines are used to develop the
technology to assist in food processing and
harvest. Farm and Ranch Museum co-sponsors
this event.
Details --
Schedule -- Photos
 Water Wonders
Fifth graders explore the importance of water, its uses, and
properties--a valuable resource to our region. Expect to work with social
scientists, resource management officials,
agricultural, extension agents and
environmentalists to set irrigation pipes, build
water rockets and make a model aquifer.
Details -- Schedule -- Photos
 Branch Out
Sixth graders visit the Wild Cat Hills Nature Center to explore
the benefits and parts of trees, biological aspects, and science career
opportunities. While some students learn to use dichotomous keys in
identification, others plant seedlings, learn
about the importance of snags or experience
"Build a Tree"-- a fun way to learn the parts of
a tree.
Details --
Schedule -- Photos
 Let's
Rock
Sixth graders studying earth science come to
Scottsbluff National Monument to explore the
exposed layers of the earth and learn how this
area was developed. Geologists and other
naturalists join the class to share their
expertise. Details -- Schedule --
Photos
 Environ-Art
Have an artist and a scientist come to your classroom to lead students in
observation skills and
discovery that can result in an entry in the state Junior Duck Stamp contest.
The classroom visits and the contest are
sponsored by U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
Placing nationally in 2006, Brett Cooper from
Banner County painted this image of canvasbacks.
Details --
Schedule --
Federal
Stamp Program Contest |
