Seamobile | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

Seamobile

Program Details

• Free, grant-funded program through the generosity of The Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation.
• This program is available only to LAUSD schools and takes place at the school.
• Hands-on, standards-based, cross-curricular science outreach program for students in grades 6 to 8.

Curriculum

• Focuses on marine biology and ecology with a particular emphasis on the ways in which humans impact the habitats of the ocean.
• In the Seamobile, students become marine scientists and are taken on a simulated dive beneath the San Pedro Channel off the coast of Southern California.
• Research stations provide hands-on and computer-based activities allowing the students to collect and analyze data from different ocean habitats. Some of the animals studied include urchins, box crabs, and basking sharks.
• Teachers attend an onsite, pre-visit orientation to prepare themselves, and their students, for the program by offering a number of pre-visit activities. Post-activities are offered as well to enrich learning long after the program is completed.

Connections to CA State Standards

• Grade 6 Standards (PDF)
• Grade 7 Standards (PDF)
• Grade 8 Standards (PDF) 

Program Objectives

1. To capture and cultivate student interest in science, specifically marine biology and ecology.
2. To introduce students to the diversity of organisms that live in our local ocean ecosystem.
3. To help students understand the interrelationships between marine organisms within a habitat.
4. To sharpen student inquiry skills, including measurement, observation,and making a hypothesis.

Teacher/Student Resources

View and download teaching guides, student worksheets, activity sheets and glossaries.
     Recommended Pre-Visit Activities - excerpted from Teacher
     Guide (PDF)
     Seamobile Teacher Guide (PDF)
     Squid Dissection (PDF)
     Triangulation Demo (PDF)
     Depth, Temperature, and Outlandish Creatures (PDF)
     Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch (PDF)
     Sea Glossary (PDF)
 

Schedule a Visit with the Seamobile

Thank you for your interest in NHM's Mobile Museum Program. Scheduling for the Fall 2012 season began on March 1, 2012, and due to the large interest, all available program slots have been filled.
Please mark your calendars and contact us for the Spring, 2013 scheduling season, beginning on September 13, 2012. Please continue to visit our website for any program updates and details.

Scheduling for January 13 - June 13, 2013 begins September 13, 2012.

Contact us at:
E-mail: mobileoutreach@nhm.org
Phone: (213) 763-3271
Fax: (213) 763-3566