School In The Park

School In The Park School in the Park is a multi-visit museum program that blends formal and informal learning by utilizing the rich resources of museums at Balboa Park.

School in the Park is a multi-visit museum program that blends formal and informal learning by utilizing the rich resources of museums and educational institutions in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The program is designed with standards-based curriculum to integrate what is learned at school with authentic learning connections from the Park institutions. School in the Park significantly alter

s the “normal” educational setting and methodologies for students and teachers by moving “school” into the larger community.

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12/16/2021

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12/16/2021
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12/16/2021

Help promote SITP by linking your websites to our site.
Website relaunch: https://www.schoolinthepark.org/

Are you a student? Click below for student resources 🤪 Student Resources Looking forEducator Resources? Click here The School in the ParkMission Statement:Cultivating curiosity, competence, confidence and character in City Heights’ students through experiential learning opportunities within Bal...

This week our 6th grade students are learning about Feudal Japan, the geography and the influence of China. By the end ...
03/20/2019

This week our 6th grade students are learning about Feudal Japan, the geography and the influence of China. By the end of the week, they will know how to evaluate and compare artwork using the elements of art and have the opportunity to design and construct a stab bound booklet, create suminagashi (marbled paper), carve a linoleum block and print a multi-color and mono print!

03/18/2019

Students at Air & Space are engineering robots this week at

3rd grade students at San Diego Jnior Theatre this week worked as an ensemble to develop, rehearse and then perform a ta...
03/15/2019

3rd grade students at San Diego Jnior Theatre this week worked as an ensemble to develop, rehearse and then perform a tableau that explored folktales from cultures around the world. Students learned to use the tools of a performer including body, voice, and imagination while participating in rehearsals for scenes, songs, and dances. Thanks to Jr. Theatre teaching artist Justin Lang, students learned how and why people tell stories, what a folktale is, and participated in rehearsals for scenes, songs, and dances from around the world!

Students at School in the Park last week were treated to a performance by La Jolla Playhouse called Light-years Away per...
03/12/2019

Students at School in the Park last week were treated to a performance by La Jolla Playhouse called Light-years Away performed at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The plot: "The year is 2068. Having discovered a new inhabitable planet named YOLO 6, NASA sponsors a contest to discover who should be chosen to live on this new world, and three 5th graders are up for the challenge! They embark on a storytelling journey, learning about the real problems, as well as the real beauty in their current world and what they think should be created in the next. " The theme of the play was perfect for our students and educators to integrate into their existing curriculum. After the performance, the cast and crew conducted a question and answer session with our students! Thank you La Jolla Playhouse and Air & Space Museum!

this week, students were researching the reasons, the ways and means by which people have come to settle in San Diego f...
02/02/2019

this week, students were researching the reasons, the ways and means by which people have come to settle in San Diego from 1850 to the present day. Guided by History Center Education Coordinator, Samantha Alberts, they even created their own data collection for visitors to the museum to participate in. Students tally, chart and plot responses to represent how people have migrated or immigrated to San Diego, including their own families! Using primary and secondary resources of the History Center, students learned about what has brought people to San Diego in the past, what brings people here today and how newcomers to the region affect San Diego history. Great discussions about how newcomers continue to contribute to the San Diego community today.

NAT, we focused on humans' impact on the environment, Nicole De Palma and Seekey Cacciatore led their 5th grade student...
01/31/2019

NAT, we focused on humans' impact on the environment, Nicole De Palma and Seekey Cacciatore led their 5th grade students through VTS using photos in the museum's Water gallery: one that showed a polluted ocean, and two photos comparing the Colorado River in the past (much more full, with lush, green banks) and today (dwindling and dry). Our 5th grade class will present their educational posters on how humans can negatively and positively impact the environment on Friday at 1:10 - 2:10 pm in the NAT classroom, please stop by!

We're Back! Winter Break is over and students from Rosa Parks returned to School in the Park yesterday for the week. Her...
01/24/2019

We're Back! Winter Break is over and students from Rosa Parks returned to School in the Park yesterday for the week. Here are a few places we were at today:3rd grade at the Zoo to study animal habitats, 4th grade will be spending 2 back to back weeks at Air and Space to learn about "Forces and Energy (including making rovers) 5th graders are at The Nat to study the effects of Human Impact and students at The Fleet are going to focus on Forensic Science!

Getting ready for our students to return from Winter Break, a group of School in the Park educators gathered together to...
01/17/2019

Getting ready for our students to return from Winter Break, a group of School in the Park educators gathered together today to explore Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) in a professional development opportunity facilitated by Tomoko Kuta, Deputy Museum Director, The New Children's Museum. Teachers and educators from Rosa Parks, Wilson, our participating museums, our facilitators and administrators attended the VTS Training. The walk away from today to conduct VTS discussions: What’s Going on in the Picture? What do You See that Makes You Say That? What More Can We Find? Most important discussion, how VTS can be applied in a variety of settings at Balboa Park with our students.

From all of us at School in the Park: We wish you a very happy holiday season. We appreciate you and all the experience,...
12/22/2018

From all of us at School in the Park: We wish you a very happy holiday season. We appreciate you and all the experience, knowledge and wonder you bring to our City Heights students during the year. Thank you Museum of Man, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego History Center, San Diego Zoo, The NAT, Air & Space, Old Globe, Junior Theatre, Fleet Science Center and of course our friends who help support our office every day in the Casa del Prado.

School in the Park would like to give a special shout out to Jim Berrian, Field Entomologist with The NAT who took time ...
12/20/2018

School in the Park would like to give a special shout out to Jim Berrian, Field Entomologist with The NAT who took time out of his day to meet with a few of our 7th graders who were taking part in a Citizen Scientist project at The Nat this week. Students have been using the app "iNaturalist" to go out into Balboa Park and make field observations of the flora and fauna each day. Back at The Nat, they upload their data which and learn how to read, interpret graphs and charts that may be used by scientists!

This week at the Old Globe, the Arts Engagement team has welcomed a group of 60 7th graders from Wilson Middle School in...
12/20/2018

This week at the Old Globe, the Arts Engagement team has welcomed a group of 60 7th graders from Wilson Middle School in City Heights. Our students have been working this week on Performance and Design projects (Costume, Scenic and Graphic/Poster Designs) inspired by Romeo and Juliet.Students will be presenting the projects in a Shakespeare Festival this Friday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Hattox Hall, starting with a few short performance scenes and followed by an open classroom to visit each design presentation (similar to a science fair) Here is a digital draft, sneak preview of student created posters promoting the event.

11/29/2018

Our 6th grade students from Wilson that are at Air & Space this week have been learning about Engineering Design Process as they assume the role of electromechanical engineers by building, testing, and modifying a series of progressively more complicated “bots”.

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School in the Park is an innovative program that shifts the location of "school" from a traditional classroom setting in an inner-city school, to the resources and educational opportunities available at museums in Balboa Park. A relevant instructional environment is created as hands-on learning challenges students to become active participants in their own education. Rosa Parks and Wilson Middle School participate in a program that is designed to fully utilize the unique educational opportunities of San Diego's cultural institutions in Balboa Park. The plan allows all third, fourth and fifth grade students to spend up to eight weeks at San Diego's famous Balboa Park, where they participate in week-long educational programs at nine institutions.In essence, the elementary students spend almost twenty-five percent of their time learning in this hands-on, real world setting. Wilson Middle School sends all 6th grade for four weeks and all 7th and 8th grade students participate for two weeks at 4 different museums during the year. School in the Park addresses California state standards at each grade level. These standards are embedded into topics that are appropriate to each of the ten institutions in Balboa Park that participate in the program.