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Tapia Park Education Program

Teacher Resources

We are excited that you are bringing your class to our Tapia Park Education Program!

The following information has been gathered to help prepare your students for the field trip and to help create a more meaningful experience. Please feel free to share any of these resources with your families so they can also learn more about our local wild spaces.

Preparing Your Student Scientists

Tapia Bird Species Slideshow

Bird Slideshow

Use this Google Slide deck to introduce your students to some of the bird species they might see at Tapia Park.

Plants of Tapia Slideshow

Plant Slideshow

This slideshow will help your students become familiar with the plants they may spot along the hike at Tapia Park.

 

Online Games

Recycle City

Click this box to access the EPAs Recycle City online game.

Build a Bird

There are so many interesting birds to see at Tapia Park! Click this box to access a game in which you build your very own bird and learn how specific adaptations and location choice help (or hinder) its ability to survive.

Helpful Videos

This quick video gives a great and succinct description of a watershed so your students can begin to understand this complex idea.

 

Urban Wildlife Walk

Go on a virtual tour of a local LA neighborhood with RCD educator, Jelly, and learn how to identify some plants that may be in your own neighborhood!

Learn About Tree Cookies!

Learn what a tree cookie is and how scientists can use them to tell the story of a tree!

Bird Basics Video

Help your students better understand the unique adaptations of different bird species.

Post Field Trip Activities

School Yard Cleanup

A school yard cleanup is a great way for students to connect what happens in the upper watershed with that happens in the lower reaches. The trash that ends up on the ground at school will eventually end up in the ocean if someone does not deal with it. Check out the link below to the California Coastal Commission’s School Yard Cleanup!

Plan a Cleanup!

Project Learning Tree Family Activites

Check out activities for the whole family and introduce students to nature. These fun and easy-to-do activities can be used while you explore your own backyard, visit a local park, or walk in the woods—as well as indoors!

Explore these activities!

Directions to Tapia Park Ed. Program

Tapia Park Public Use Area, Agoura Hills, CA 91301

[if you are coming from PCH] From Malibu Canyon Rd. turn left on Dorothy Dr. Veer right and follow that road for 0.1 miles and take the first left you can. Follow that road until you see a parking space(s) [indicated by blue boxes in the image to the right] on the left that fits your vehicle. 

[if you are coming from HWY 101] From Las Virgenes Rd turn right on Dorothy Dr. Veer right and follow that road for 0.1 miles and take the first left you can. Follow that road until you see a parking space(s) on the left that fits your vehicle. 

RCD Educators will be there to greet you!