School Connections
Longview partners with Cornerstone Learning Community (www.cornerstonelc.com), an independent preschool through 8th grade in Tallahassee. Students from Cornerstone's classes regularly visit the farm to focus on activities relevant to their curriculum and adjusted to match their developmental levels. Sky Feller is our lead farm teacher, and she coordinates the field trips with teachers and plans and leads the lessons at the farm.
Field trips to the farm are also offered to other area schools and homeschool groups. Click here for pricing. Contact Sky Feller: dsfeller@icloud.com for more information about scheduling field trips and available activities.
Take a look, below, at the sample farm activities & studies or click here to see a list of sample field trips.
Samples of Farm Activities & Studies:
**See the "sample field trip"page for more specific information.
Fishing
Tree planting
Hayrides
Construction of birdhouses
Animal tracking and casting
Animal life cycle
Experimental archaeology
Twine and simple tool making
Phenology and soil studies
Gopher tortoise burrow viewing
Honeybee observations
Sensory and Naturalist walks
Food botany
Plant & seed collection
Map and compass use
Sample Field Trips
Animal Traces (K-3) Students will observe the domestic animals on the farm and search for traces of the other more secretive animals that make their home in the farm and forest. Students will cast animal tracks, look at animal scat, look at rotten logs and see nibble holes in leaves.
A Farmer’s Day (K-3rd) Caring for farm animals and raising fresh food is lots of fun. Students have the chance to dig into farm chores- caring for horses, cows and chickens and working in the garden, while learning about sustainable farming.
Map and compass (1st-5th grade) Where am I? How do I get from here to there? Students on this trip learn to follow a map (4th and 5th graders will also learn how to use a compass) in order to find a hidden treasure.
Soil Explorations (2nd-4th) Get ready to explore soils. Students will get to dig into the world of soil in farm and forest, digging soil pits to observe soil horizons, testing soil texture, porosity, and moisture. Compost heaps will be turned and worms will be fed.
Exploring Energy flow on the farm (3-5th) We’ll take your group on a scavenger hunt of the farm and forest in search of energy sources. We’ll finish up the trip with a tour the farm’s solar panels and biodiesel plant, tracing the source of energy back to the sun.
Biotic and Abiotic (2nd-4th) Students will seek out the living and non-living components of the natural world in a scavenger hunt on the farm. Students will learn how species deal with various abiotic and biotic factors, and how farmers seek to control these factors to grow food and raise animals.
BioBlitz! (2nd-3rd, or 4th-6th) Students will participate in a lightning speed study of the diversity of living things at the farm. After an introduction to concept of biodiversity students will sample the biodiversity of an area of forest and consider the affects of various environmental changes on biodiversity.
Field Trip Fees
Longview has a flat fee of $100 for 25 children with a maximum of 30 people including chaperones. Each trip is 2-3 hours long.
Our trips are planned to focus on activities relevant to each classes curriculum and adjusted to match their developmental levels. These can be altered/tweaked to fit the students needs.
Click here to see sample field trips/activities.
Contact Sky Feller at dsfeller@icloud.com to get more information or to schedule your trip.