Looking for classroom activities to use with your students? We encourage you to explore our online materials. Our standards-based curriculum has been developed to provide educators with curriculum to continue your Hidden Villa experience in the classroom.
We are also excited to share with you some funding opportunities that are available to support experiential learning at your school, transportation, and field trip funding sources.
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NGSS Curriculum
NGSS Videos
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A Life Story Written on a Leaf
This video shows the life cycle of a ladybug and a leaf miner insect.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 3-LS1-1 -
Animals That Dig: Who Needs Bulldozers?
This video shows several examples of how gophers and moles change the environment through their digging activities.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard K-ESS2-2 -
Can Plants Grow Without Sun or Water?
Can plants grow without sun or water?Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 2-LS2-1 -
Caring for the Wilderness
This video shows examples of how farmers can work with the wilderness and protect natural resources and environments.Price: FreeDuration: 7 minute video plus discussion -
Decomposers: Turning Scraps into Dirt
This video show how worms change their environment by changing plant leftovers into soil.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard K-ESS2-2 -
Deer Ears: Your Very Own Super Power
This video uses the example of a deer's ears as an external body part whose structure functions to protect deer from predators and other dangers.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 1-LS1-1 -
Digging Deep: Exploring the Compost Pile
This video shows the cycle of how worms turn scrap food into soil.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 5-LS2-1 -
Eating Sunshine in the Garden
This video shows examples of how solar energy is captured and used at Hidden Villa Farm.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 5-PS3-1 -
Exploring Micro-Habitats: Life Under Logs
This video shows many animals that live in the microhabitats under logs.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 2-LS4-1 -
Grocery Shopping In the Woods
This video gives examples of many natural and renewable resources used by the Ohlone Native Americans.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-ESS3-1 -
Helping Birds Build Nests
This video gives examples of how individuals can help preserve bird habitats.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 5-ESS3-1 -
Horns and Antlers: Useful Tools or Nature's Hood Ornaments?
This video presents information on the functions of external structures using the examples of horns and antlers.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-LS1-1 -
How Animals Make Their Homes: Woodrats
This video shows how woodrats change their environment.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard K-ESS2-2 -
How Deer Affect Trees and the Entire Forest
This video shows how deer change their environment.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard K-ESS2-2 -
How Hidden Villa Saves Rainwater the Easy Way
This video gives examples of how rain water can be conserved.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 5-ESS3-1 -
How One Family Saved a Watershed
This video shows how the choices of one family saved a watershed.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 3-LS4-4 -
How Plants Anchor Soil
This video shows how plants help anchor the soil and prevent erosion.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-ESS2-1 -
How Seeds Travel
This video shows an example of how a plant is dependent on birds to move its seeds around.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 2-LS2-2 -
How to Keep Plants Healthy
This video gives examples of how plants are dependent on water and light.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 2-LS2-1 -
Let's Play with Plants
This video shows one example of how students can have fun with plants by taking advantage of a plant's strategy for getting its seeds to hitch a ride on animals for dispersal.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 2-LS2-2 -
Life in the Air: Adaptations of a Bird
This video shows the adaptations of birds.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-LS1-1 -
Life on the Prowl: Adaptations of a Fox
This video shows the adaptations of a fox.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-LS1-1 -
Life Without Limbs: Adaptations of a Snake
This video shows the adaptations of snakes.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-LS1-1 -
Making a Campfire: Energy Choices
This video uses the process of making a campfire on a cold morning as a means of exploring the pros and cons of wood as a "renewable" energy resource.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-ESS3-1 -
Play a Trick on a Tick
This video shows how ticks use perception to detect an animal's passage and how to use this knowledge to avoid tick bites.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-LS1-2 -
Reconstructing a Deer Skeleton
This video shows various parts of a deer and how those parts function.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-LS1-1 -
Seed Dispersal
This video shows several ways plants depend on animals and the environment to spread their seeds.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 4-LS1-1 -
Six Parts of a Plant
This video shows the six parts of a plant in a fun and memorable way.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 1-LS1-1 -
Taking Care of Farm Animal Basic Needs
This video shows several examples of what farm animals need to live.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard K-LS1-1 -
Who Lives Under Logs?
This video shows examples of the small animals that live under logs.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard K-ESS3-1 -
Woodrats: Forest Engineers
This video shows how woodrats build their shelters.Price: FreeDuration: NGSS Standard 1-LS1-1
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