Field Study
Throughout a student's time in SEA-DISC, they will have the opportunity to go on many educational adventures with their class or the whole academy. In both junior and senior year, students will visit many places that can be connected to the current project. No matter where the class travels there is always knowledge to be learned and fun to be had. Each field trip provides the students with an enjoyable learning community instead of staying in a classroom all the time.
Our Field Trips
Year A:
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Camping trip
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SPAWN Restoration Site and Nursery
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Creek Project Debrief
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UC Berkeley Research
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SF Zoo
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Endangered Species Gallery Walk
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Endangered Species debrief day
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Energy Trip
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Ocean Film Festival
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Energy Presentations
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Goldman Awards
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Earth Day
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Energy Project debrief day
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Green Careers Conference
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Bike Cascade Falls
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Environmental Film Festival Rafael Theater
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Senior Honoring
Year B:
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Camping trip and wilderness survival training
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Green Gulch organic farm
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Plant purchasing and planting day
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Sustainable agriculture debate
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Sustainable agriculture debrief day
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Train trip to Sacramento
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Display set-up and debrief day
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Cemetery lab
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Recycling center
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Earth Day
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Debrief day
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Goldman Awards
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Green Careers Conference
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Underwater World
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Tidepool marine research
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Senior Honoring
During our energy project, students also have three release days to partner with local businesses and organizations to get first-hand experience with the people who are doing the work that they are studying every day.
2021 Field Study
Due to COVID-19, the the junior and senior SEA-DISC class did not get to go on any out of school field trips for the year 2021. We did however, manage to have some really awesome virtual field trips, like the Mare Virtual Field trip and contest, and a substitution for the Tidepool Marine Research Field Trip.
Mare Field Study
MARE stands for Marine Applied Research and Exploration. They are a non-profit organization that has a mission to explore and document the unknown parts of the ocean. For this virtual field trip, students were in person, while presenters talked over zoom, about the ocean, their programs, and their jobs. Students were also encouraged to participate in a contest, that required them to make infographics about the effects of plastic.
Tidepool Lab
Sadly, we couldn't go to tide pools and look at the organisms in the water. However, our Environmental science teacher Ms. Sherman, prepared a phytoplankton, and zooplankton lab, to teach us that ocean water is full of life! We observed different organisms, and sketched pictures of a couple of them. To the right is a video of zooplankton!