Brazos Bend State Park Volunteer Organization
BRAZOS BEND STATE PARK

GRADE FOUR – SCIENCE 

Program – Guided Nature Hike & Nature Center tour

Description – A ½ or 1 mile guided nature hike through a bottomland hardwood forest and around several aquatic ecosystems.   Hike leaders will discuss native plants & animals, ecosystems and how they interact with one another.  Students will be allowed to tour the nature center at their own pace, ask questions, view exhibits and touch a live animal.

Time required –Approximately 2 - 3 hours

Size requirements – less then 100 students, students will be divided into smaller groups

Cost - $1.00 per person and a $20.00 activity fee for the group 

Reservations must be made in advance and are subject to availability 

The following Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Grade 4 Science will be addressed with this program

§112.6. Science, Grade 4

(a)  Introduction.

  1.  (3)  Students learn the roles of living and nonliving components of simple systems and investigate differences between learned characteristics and inherited traits. They learn that adaptations of organisms that lived in the past may have increased some species' ability to survive.

(b)  Knowledge and skills

  1. (5)  Science concepts. The student knows that complex systems may not work if some parts are removed. The student is expected to:
    1. (A)  identify and describe the roles of some organisms in living systems such as plants in a schoolyard, and parts in nonliving systems such as a light bulb in a circuit; and
    2. (B)  predict and draw conclusions about what happens when part of a system is removed.
  3. (8)  Science concepts. The student knows that adaptations may increase the survival of members of a species. The student is expected to:
    1. (A)  identify characteristics that allow members within a species to survive and reproduce;
    2. (B)  compare adaptive characteristics of various species; and
    3. (C)  identify the kinds of species that lived in the past and compare them to existing species.
  5. (9)  Science concepts. The student knows that many likenesses between offspring and parents are inherited or learned. The student is expected to:
    1. (A)  distinguish between inherited traits and learned characteristics; and
    2. (B)  identify and provide examples of inherited traits and learned characteristics.

    Updated: Sat, Feb 3, 2007

    The purpose of the Volunteer organization is to assist and educate the visitors of Brazos Bend State Park through
    information and interpretive programs and to assist in the care and conservation of the Park.

    Brazos Bend State Park
    21901 FM 762
    Needville, TX 77461
    (979) 553-5101