SIC-Field Tripping

Science In The City

Field Tripping

DEAR SCIENCE WORLD,

Help! I volunteered to help plan field trips for my daughter’s Grade 5 class and I’m scrambling to find ideas for her teacher. My daughter has been raving to her class about your exhibits and shows. Is there any way her whole class can come see it for themselves (preferably for a discount)?

At Loss For Ideas

Hi ALFI,

Absolutely! We’d love to have her class come. And, since grades K – 7 can visit us for free, her class field trip would be free! Yes, free!

A field trip to Science World at TELUS World of Science is a fun way to get kids excited about science. We’ve got dazzling shows, interactive, hands-on exhibits and lots of room for experiencing the joy of discovery.

For small fee, you can even add on one of our curriculum-linked science workshops ($1.00 a student) or an OMNIMAX® film ($4 a student). These interactive workshops include things like building giant roller coasters for ball bearings or grossing each other out learning about blood, boogers and snot. In the OMNIMAX Theatre, students can imagine themselves climbing in the Alps, surging through the Grand Canyon or rappelling into majestic caves.

So now you’re thinking “Free field trip? How is that possible?” Well, in 2005, the British Columbia Program for the Awareness and Learning of Science (BC PALS), through the Ministry of Education, decided that every K – 7 student in BC would be entitled to one free Science World experience per year. They chalked it up to a good investment in BC’s future economy.

But wait—what does Science World have to do with our economy? A lot. The thing is, not enough kids are pursuing careers in science and technology to meet the demand for how many workers industry needs. Fast-forward 15 years and suddenly we won’t have enough doctors for our hospitals or engineers to build our cities or scientists to help our environment. We won’t have enough innovators working in forestry, mining, or construction. Instead, we’ll have a huge science gap between the demand and supply of scientific workers. Science is critical to our growing economy.

To help close the science gap, Science World is working hard to inspire as many kids as possible through BC PALS. Not only can K – 7 students visit Science World at TELUS World of Science for free, but Science World also travels across the province to visit schools and spread their creative brand of science to children, teachers, families and communities all over the place. After all, you never know where inspiration may strike.

So tell your daughter’s teacher to check out what Science World can offer. We promise the field trip will be a hit with the class and you’ll be a hit with the teacher (no apple-shining required).