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At the Visitor Center (preK-6)

The Sanctuary Visitor Center provides unique and engaging programs that allow students to see their connection to ocean habitats and wildlife.

Bring your class to the Gulf of the Farallones Sanctuary Visitor Center at the Presidio and you will open up an exciting learning opportunity for your students. Programs are two hours long, interactive, grade specific and correlate to state standards.

Students use hands-on exhibits inside the visitor center to discover how senses, life cycles, adaptations, and food webs function in the marine environment. Outside on the beach, students use observational skills to discover what makes this such a fragile world and actions they can take to help protect the ocean.

Sensing the Sanctuary
Grade preK - K
What Lives in the Sanctuary
Grade 1
Life Cycles of Sanctuary Wildlife
Grade 2
Marine Animal Adaptations
Grade 3
Food Web of the Sanctuary
Grade 4-6

Offered: Wednesday - Friday, 10 am - 3 pm, year-round
Group size: maximum of 30 students with at least one chaperone for every 10 students.

To learn more, contact the Visitor Center Manager at (415) 561-6625 x308 or jholl@farallones.org

We also offer programs for other groups like scouts and parties. Plan your next event at Crissy Field and add an exciting, hands-on learning adventure at the Sanctuary Visitor Center!

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This page was last updated on January 1, 2007
2007 Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
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