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Field Trips*

Parent Group Sponsored Field Trips

  • Children's House to the Eau Claire Children's Theatre on February 20th to see "Curious George:  The Golden Meatball"

District Sponsored Kindergarten Children's Museum of Eau Claire Field Trip 

An adventure-filled field trip to the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire, where students will be able to enjoy all of the exhibits at the museum, including a special activity designed for ECASD Kindergarteners. 

District Sponsored 1st Grade L.E. Phillips Public Library Field Trip

 Time at the L.E. Phillips Public Library supports the first grade social studies and reading/language arts curriculum.   Activities students will participate in during the day include:  

  • A tour of the youth services area
  • Learn more about the library with a scavenger hunt  
  • Learn about Library Summer Reading Program 
  • Opportunity for students to get library cards with an application filled out by their parents

District Sponsored 2nd Grade Beaver Creek Reserve Field Trip

Beaver Creek Reserve is an environmental center.  The 360 acre reserve is home to many birds, animals, and flowers. It contains upland woods, prairies, river bottoms, forests, streams, and rocky falls.  The scenic location is the site of our Second Grade Insect Study Field Trip.  Student's day at Beaver Creek supports the second grade science curriculum. 

Activities students will participate in include: 

  • Studying a pond habitat
  • Exploring the Beaver Creek Nature Center
  • Searching for and identifying objects in nature while hiking
  • Collecting and identifying insect specimens
  • Learning about insect survival and environmental adaptations 

District Sponsored 3rd Grade Chippewa Valley Museum and Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Field Trip

Students will spend the day at the Chippewa Valley Museum and Paul Bunyan Logging Camp.  They will participate in tours and activities at the museum that will help them understand the exciting and intertwining stories of the people, places, and events that shaped life in the Chippewa Valley and throughout Wisconsin.  The field trip is designed to complement the third grade social studies curriculum.  Students will engage in activities that will reinforce what they know about many immigrant groups in the valley, including the Hmong, Ojibwe, European farmers, and loggers.  The culture and lifestyles of the people will come alive as students engage in dialogue with the museum tour guides and explore authentic artifacts to discover and learn.

The field trip covers four learning experiences:  

  • Farm Life: A museum exhibit that focuses on a century of change for farm families and their neighbors.
  • History Quest: An exhibit where students investigate the lives of six individuals representing six different time periods in Chippewa Valley history.
  • Changing Currents:  A museum exhibit that shows how the Chippewa Valley is always changing through the mixing of people, cultures and environment.  
  • Paul Bunyan Camp: An experience focused on the influence of logging on the daily life of families in the Chippewa Valley. 

District Sponsored 4th Grade Chippewa Moraine Ice Age Reserve Field Trip

The Ice Age Reserve is located near New Auburn.  This field trip supports the social studies curriculum.  The day has been planned for students in an effort to help them understand how our land was formed.   The landscape surrounding the Ice Age Reserve was formed approximately 18,000 years ago by a glacier called the Chippewa Lobe. 

Activities students will participate in during the day include:

  • Snowshoeing across a kettle lake or hiking the Mammoth Nature Trail
  • Touring the interactive exhibits in the Ice Age Visitor Center
  • Participating in fur trade and logging era outdoor activities
  • Eating lunch outdoors 

District Sponsored 5th Grade Field Day & UWEC Event

All 5th Grade students in ECASD will be participating in a district-wide field day at Memorial High School. The 5th Grade Field Day is made possible through funding from the Ulrich Family Trust.  The meet has been held annually for years. 

 At the field day students will be able to compete in many events including the distance run, 50-yard dash, 60-yard hurdles, relays, standing long jump, soccer kicking, softball throw, shuttle run, tug-of-war, tennis tap ups, basketball dribble, cone toss, and jump rope crossovers. 

At the conclusion of field day students will be bussed to the UWEC campus for afternoon activities.  Those activities include a lunch at Riverside Cafeteria with many food options, basketball, soccer, flag football, yard games, volleyball, rock wall, and track to walk/talk with friends.