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AVCI STEM Field Trip

WE ARE BOOKED FOR THE 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR! 

Thank you to all who inquired or booked your time with us. We appreciate you!!

fieldtrips@lcer.org


Wednesdays, January-May

Apple Valley Center for Innovation
Kinder-5th grade
Wednesdays, January-May

 
The Lewis Center for Educational Research and Apple Valley Unified School District have teamed up to provide a hands-on science center right here in the High Desert! Located on our Thunderbird Campus, students get to experience science first-hand. They will rotate through four stations including grade level specific, NGSS-aligned activities and free exploration time in our Exploratorium. Some activities may include:
  • NOAA & NASA’s Science on a Sphere
  • AR Sandtable to see how and when landforms change due to environmental activity
  • *NEW* GAVRT, Solar Patrol - learn about our amazing Sun and it's effects on us!
  • Solar Telescope in Luz Observatory
  • Tour through the Solar System
  • Inflatable Planetarium
  • Earthquakes tables
  • Invisible forces
  • Engineering activites
  • Outdoor Physics Garden
  • and so much more! 

AVCI Photos

$12 per student, chaperones free
Shuttle glider souvenir included for each student!
Max 125 students

AVCI is a 4-hour field trip, including lunch time
$12 per student, chaperones free
Shuttle glider souvenir included for each student!
Max 125 students

This field trip is both indoors and outdoors. Please dress for the weather.  
Lunchtime is built into the field trip, so be sure to bring lunches.  Refrigeration in not available. 
 
Students will shop in the AVCI gift shop.  Prices range from $1-$20.  All proceeds go to AVCI.

To schedule a field trip, contact the Lewis Center
760-946-5414 ext. 276