Class Trips
At Tesseract School, class trips are an essential part of the curriculum for middle and high school. In middle school, students experience a variety of local field trips in addition to participating in a major curriculum-related trip.
In fifth grade, the curriculum brings students to various locations in the San Francisco area, including China Town and the YMCA Point Bonita. China Town enables students to expand their understanding of the Chinese culture, which is studied both historically and philosophically in fifth grade. At Point Bonita, students learn to become active stewards of the environment within their own communities by understanding the cause and effect relationship of choice and impact in the natural world.
Sustainability is explored from a slightly different angle as Tesseract’s sixth-graders travel to the headquarters of Heifer International. Here they learn about global resources and sustainability through food by learning all the steps necessary to bring different foods to the dinner table, and how people worldwide are connected to different sources of food.
In support of their American government and history curriculum, Tesseract’s seventh-grade students travel to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. where they visit key historical landmarks from 17th century colonial times through the Independence period to the modern day including Plimoth Plantation, the Salem Witch Museum, Independence Hall, the National Archives, the Supreme Court and Congress.
Studies in science, including a focus on sustainability and climate change, bring Tesseract’s eighth-grade students to Costa Rica where they visit local schools and villages, organic farms, a women’s cooperative, rainforests and the San Geraldo Biological Center. On this trip the eighth-graders also have the opportunity to flex their Spanish-speaking skills in authentic situations with native-speakers.
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