Chabot Space & Science Center and Oakland Zoo
This 8-hour day trip begins by taking students to Oakland’s famed Chabot Space & Science Center – featuring the NASA Experience – a NASA Ames Visitor Center, with hands-on activities and NASA AMES artifacts, that highlight current Ames’ research and space missions, planetarium shows, and the research-level observatory complex with three large scale telescopes; which is the largest observatory complex free for public viewing in the Western United States.
At 11:30 students load the buses for lunch en route to the Oakland Zoo which features animals from the African Savanna, Tropical Rainforest, Wild Australia, Parrot Plaza, and a gondola ride to the California Trail.