California Academy of Sciences
The Lindsay Wildlife Museum is located in Walnut Creek at 1931 First Avenue. The museum has a variety of animals that can be seen with the help of a docent led tour. The tour for first and second grade is called Animal Characteristics. This tour lasts for sixty minutes. For third and fourth grade students the tour is called Predators and Prey, and it lasts for approximately 90 minutes. Tours are led Tuesday through Thursday at 9:00 and 10:30 A.M. The group cost for K-2 students is $50. The maximum group size for a K-2 student group is 20 students. The group cost for third grade students and higher is $60. The maximum group size for third grade and higher is 32 students. Also, a maximum of 6 parents may accompany each tour. Registration for a tour of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum must be made four weeks in advance. Registration forms can be obtained by calling the museum at (925) 935-1978 or by clicking registration form now. Forms can be faxed or mailed back to the museum.
Standards:First grade standard
2 of the life sciences: Plants and animals meet their needs in different
ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds
of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different
kinds of places.
b. Students know both plants and animals need water, animals need food,
and plants need light.
c. Students know animals eat plants or other animals for food and may
also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting.d. Students
know how to infer what animals eat from the shapes of their teeth (e.g.,
sharp teeth: eats meat; flat teeth: eats plants).
Second grade life sciences standard 2: Plants
and animals have predictable life cycles. As a basis for understanding
this concept:
a. Students know that organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind
and that the offspring resemble their parents and one another.
b. Students know the sequential stages of life cycles are different for
different animals, such as butterflies, frogs, and mice.
c. Students know many characteristics of an organism are inherited from
the parents. Some characteristics are caused or influenced by the environment.
d. Students know there is variation among individuals of one kind within
a population.
Third grade life sciences standard 3: Adaptations
in physical structure or behavior may improve an organism's chance for
survival. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a. Students know plants and animals have structures that serve different
functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
b. Students know examples of diverse life forms in different environments,
such as oceans, deserts, tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands.
c. Students know living things cause changes in the environment in which
they live: some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or other
organisms, and some are beneficial.
