Museum Classes

 


Each museum class helps prepare our students for upcoming field trips. The Oakland Museum of California is a great place to learn about the habitats and ecology of Northern California. You can find most of the habitats of California in the museum gallery.


Studying a map of San Francisco Bay before the boat trip.


One of our classes includes a drawing workshop. The students draw sketches of various animals from the museum collections. They also learn techniques for taking field notes in their outdoor field journals.
Jeanette drew a nice sketch of a long-billed curlew—a shorebird found in many coastal marshes in California. As many of the students discovered, when you take the time to draw and keep notes of animals or plants in nature you learn many new things about these organisms.

Observing and drawing animals is a fine way to compare and contrast differences between them. Jeanette compared an elephant seal and a harbor seal in her journal.

Jesus drew this songbird from a specimen in the Natural Sciences gallery of the Oakland Museum of California.

Let's Go!
Visit the Oakland Museum of California Natural Science's Gallery webpage:
Natural Science Gallery

 

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