Schallock Center for Animals Field Trips
The Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha has developed school field trip programs for Grades K5-12. Lessons are aligned with state and national academic standards and provide interactive and engaging humane education lessons that focus on: animal welfare and character education, animal science and STEM education, environmental literacy and sustainability.
- Animal Senses (K5-2nd)
- Five Freedoms (2nd-6th)
- Ecosystem Sweet Ecosystem (2nd-8th)
- Science of Scent (5th-8th)
- Helping Hands (7th-12th)
- Early Childhood Encounters (K3-K5)
These programs are available at the Schallock Center for Animals in Delafield. To request a school program please click here or the menu item on the left and fill out the form. Grant funding may be available to support school field trip programs or transportation costs based on need.
Classroom Programs
In-Classroom Field Trips – K5 through 8th Grade HAWS now offers our school field trip programs as in-classroom visits to your school. We will spend an hour with your students teaching them about compassion, kindness and empathy while using our pets as partners to lead your class in engaging activities using STEM and character education strategies. We serve class sizes up to 30 students and can provide consecutive programs to serve multiple classrooms. First program $200, each consecutive program $150.
- Animal Senses (K5-2nd)
- Five Freedoms (2nd-6th)
- Science of Scent (5th-8th)
To request a school program please click here or the menu item on the left and fill out the form.
No More Bullying! – 3rd Grade through 5th Grade: You might wonder why an animal shelter would care to prevent bullying in our schools. Many studies show that people who mistreat animals are more likely to bully their peers and later become violent towards others. The Humane Animal Welfare Society would love to work with the students in your 3rd, 4th and/or 5th grade classrooms to present this program and teach children a way that prevents them from practicing bullying. This program consists of five visits to a classroom for an hour each visit.
The program teaches children core values such as respect, self-control, responsibility and compassion, and are encouraged to practice those values so they become ingrained in their character. Additionally, incorporating a visit from a dog with these lessons helps to keep students attention, and adds an incentive to practice each week’s lesson. To find out more about the No More Bullying program contact us at [email protected]. Watch as HAWS staff members discuss the No More Bullying program! Grant funding may be available for the No More Bullying program, including the materials, so that we can provide it at minimal or no charge to your school.
Teacher’s Pet: Would you like a pet for your classroom to teach your students how to be a responsible pet owner? Did you know you can temporarily foster an adoptable HAWS pet? We will provide you with an animal, the start-up supplies to care for it and then HAWS will take welcome the animal back to prepare it for its forever home or facilitate the adoption by one of the student’s families when their visit to your classroom is complete. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to practice compassion, responsibility and learn about citizenship through the hands on activity of caring for a pet with their peers! To find out more about the teachers pet program contact us at [email protected].
HAWS 4 PAWS: HAWS offers a visit to your classroom. HAWS staff member will spend an hour in your classroom talking about HAWS mission, educating and advocating about what HAWS does for our community and beyond. HAWS, upon request, will also bring an adoptable animal to set aside time to meet and greet. The cost of this program is $75.
Group Tours and Projects
Tours: We run tours on weekdays, starting at noon with the last tour beginning at 4:30 pm. Tours last about an hour, and include a discussion about what HAWS does for animals and the community, researching a pet before you bring it home and what it means to be a responsible pet owner. After the tour, 15 minutes is reserved for meeting and learning about some of the adoptable pets at HAWS. Scout groups can earn their pet or animal badge. Interactions and activities are adapted depending on the badge requirements. There is a $25.00 fee for this program that must be paid at the time of booking.
To book a tour, please contact Alexis at [email protected] or 262-542-8851 ext. 118.
Service Projects: Looking for a fun service project or craft? We have quite a few to choose from with varying time and skill requirements.
Award Projects (Silver & Gold Awards, Eagle Scout Projects): We would be happy to help your scouts achieve their awards! Just give us a call at 262-542-8851, x118 or email at: [email protected]
If you are looking for ways to complete community service hours for high school clubs or graduation, please contact [email protected].
Scouts
HAWS Tour ($25/troop):
Come and tour our animal shelter! Learn how HAWS gets their animals and what we do to help animals. At the end of the tour, we will bring out 1-2 animals to socialize with!
SCA (Schallock Center for Animals) Tour ($25/troop):
Our Schallock Center is an old horse farm on 77 acres of land! Come and explore it with us when we point out the unique and cool features we’ve added. We’ll also get to greet our goats (weather dependent) and a horse!
Private Tales by the Fire Event ($5/scout):
Join us at Emma’s firepit for a picnic dinner (provided by your troop), a campfire made by our staff, s’mores provided by HAWS, and an animal themed book! We encourage a picnic
and hike on our trail while our staff starts the fire.
HAWS has a wide variety of scout programs for more info reach out to [email protected]. Badge programs cost $5 per scout.
Snow or Climbing Adventure Badge
Come to our Schallock Center for Animals and explore a new winter sport: snowshoeing! We will provide snowshoes for you as well as help you get them on and teach you the basics of snowshoeing. A map of our trails will be provided for your troop to explore our winter wonderland!
Trail Adventure Badge
Explore the beautiful trails at our Schallock Center for Animals. We will provide a map and nature scavenger hunt to follow while completing our trails. End your time by seeing our horses and greeting the goats.
Pets Badge
Go above and beyond to earn your pet badge! During this program the kids will get to learn about HAWS, go on a behind the scenes tour of the shelter, help with some volunteer work as a group, and socialize with 1-2 animals!
Bugs Badge
Come to see what bugs call our Schallock Center for Animals Pond home! We’ll provide all the materials to discover what insects and animals live in our pond. Using magnifying glasses and microscopes, you’ll be able to see animals that you can’t identify with only the human eye. This program is offered April-October due to the frost season.
Horseback Riding Badge
Inquire about this badge, availability, and pricing by emailing
[email protected].
Snow or Climbing Adventure Badge
Come to our Schallock Center for Animals and explore a new winter sport: snowshoeing! We will provide snowshoes for you as well as help you get them on and teach you the basics of snowshoeing. A map of our trails will be provided for your troop to explore our winter wonderland!
Animal Helper Badge
Come tour our main shelter facility and learn about not only the shelter, but the special qualities animals have that help humans. We will touch on the human-animal bond, how animals keep people safe, how animals help people emotionally, and how the scouts can help animals.
Animal Science
Horses are large animals who require lots of daily care! During this program we will talk about what daily care and normal vet care is for a horse. The kids will be able to learn hands-on by grooming a horse and learning about each individual tool.
Dog Care
All ages are welcome to come work towards their Dog Care Merit Badge! Part of earning this badge is taking a tour of an animal shelter, and what better place than HAWS?! On this tour you’ll get to see where we wash laundry, do dishes, go through our adoption ward, and look at our SNIP clinic! We’ll also bring in 1-2 animals at the end.
Horsemanship
Contact [email protected].
Schallock Center for Animals Field Trips
The Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha has developed school field trip programs for Grades K5-12. Lessons are aligned with state and national academic standards and provide interactive and engaging humane education lessons that focus on: animal welfare and character education, animal science and STEM education, environmental literacy and sustainability.
- Animal Senses (K5-2nd)
- Five Freedoms (2nd-6th)
- Ecosystem Sweet Ecosystem (2nd-8th)
- Science of Scent (5th-8th)
- Helping Hands (7th-12th)
These programs are available at the Schallock Center for Animals in Delafield. To request a school program please click here or the menu item on the left and fill out the form. Grant funding may be available to support school field trip programs or transportation costs based on need.
Classroom Programs
In-Classroom Field Trips – K5 through 8th Grade HAWS now offers our school field trip programs as in-classroom visits to your school. We will spend an hour with your students teaching them about compassion, kindness and empathy while using our pets as partners to lead your class in engaging activities using STEM and character education strategies. We serve class sizes up to 30 students and can provide consecutive programs to serve multiple classrooms. First program $200, each consecutive program $150.
- Animal Senses (K5-2nd)
- Five Freedoms (2nd-6th)
- Science of Scent (5th-8th)
To request a school program please click here or the menu item on the left and fill out the form. No More Bullying! – 3rd Grade through 5th Grade You might wonder why an animal shelter would care to prevent bullying in our schools. Many studies show that people who mistreat animals are more likely to bully their peers and later become violent towards others. The Humane Animal Welfare Society would love to work with the students in your 3rd, 4th and/or 5th grade classrooms to present this program and teach children a way that prevents them from practicing bullying. This program consists of five visits to a classroom for an hour each visit. The program teaches children core values such as respect, self-control, responsibility and compassion, and are encouraged to practice those values so they become ingrained in their character. Additionally, incorporating a visit from a dog with these lessons helps to keep students attention, and adds an incentive to practice each week’s lesson. To find out more about the No More Bullying program contact us at [email protected]. Watch as HAWS staff members discuss the No More Bullying program! Grant funding may be available for the No More Bullying program, including the materials, so that we can provide it at minimal or no charge to your school. Teacher’s Pet Would you like a pet for your classroom to teach your students how to be a responsible pet owner? Did you know you can temporarily foster an adoptable HAWS pet? We will provide you with an animal, the start-up supplies to care for it and then HAWS will take welcome the animal back to prepare it for its forever home or facilitate the adoption by one of the student’s families when their visit to your classroom is complete. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to practice compassion, responsibility and learn about citizenship through the hands on activity of caring for a pet with their peers! To find out more about the teachers pet program contact us at [email protected]. HAWS 4 PAWS HAWS offers a visit to your classroom. HAWS staff member will spend an hour in your classroom talking about HAWS mission, educating and advocating about what HAWS does for our community and beyond. HAWS, upon request, will also bring an adoptable animal to set aside time to meet and greet. The cost of this program is $75.
Group Tours and Projects
Tours We run tours on weekdays, starting at noon with the last tour beginning at 4:30 pm. Tours last about an hour, and include a discussion about what HAWS does for animals and the community, researching a pet before you bring it home and what it means to be a responsible pet owner. After the tour, 15 minutes is reserved for meeting and learning about some of the adoptable pets at HAWS. Scout groups can earn their pet or animal badge. Interactions and activities are adapted depending on the badge requirements. There is a $25.00 fee for this program that must be paid at the time of booking.
To book a tour, please contact Alexis at [email protected] or 262-542-8851 ext. 118.
Service Projects
Looking for a fun service project or craft? We have quite a few to choose from with varying time and skill requirements.
Award Projects (Silver & Gold Awards, Eagle Scout Projects): We would be happy to help your scouts achieve their awards! Just give us a call at 262-542-8851, x118 or email at: [email protected]
If you are looking for ways to complete community service hours for high school clubs or graduation, please contact [email protected].
Scouts
HAWS Tour ($25/troop):
Come and tour our animal shelter! Learn how HAWS gets their animals and what we do to help animals. At the end of the tour, we will bring out 1-2 animals to socialize with!
SCA (Schallock Center for Animals) Tour ($25/troop):
Our Schallock Center is an old horse farm on 77 acres of land! Come and explore it with us when we point out the unique and cool features we’ve added. We’ll also get to greet our goats (weather dependent) and a horse!
Private Tales by the Fire Event ($5/scout):
Join us at Emma’s firepit for a picnic dinner (provided by your troop), a campfire made by our staff, s’mores provided by HAWS, and an animal themed book! We encourage a picnic
and hike on our trail while our staff starts the fire.
HAWS has a wide variety of scout programs for more info reach out to [email protected]. Badge programs cost $5 per scout.
Snow or Climbing Adventure Badge
Come to our Schallock Center for Animals and explore a new winter sport: snowshoeing! We will provide snowshoes for you as well as help you get them on and teach you the basics of snowshoeing. A map of our trails will be provided for your troop to explore our winter wonderland!
Trail Adventure Badge
Explore the beautiful trails at our Schallock Center for Animals. We will provide a map and nature scavenger hunt to follow while completing our trails. End your time by seeing our horses and greeting the goats.
Pets Badge
Go above and beyond to earn your pet badge! During this program the kids will get to learn about HAWS, go on a behind the scenes tour of the shelter, help with some volunteer work as a group, and socialize with 1-2 animals!
Bugs Badge
Come to see what bugs call our Schallock Center for Animals Pond home! We’ll provide all the materials to discover what insects and animals live in our pond. Using magnifying glasses and microscopes, you’ll be able to see animals that you can’t identify with only the human eye. This program is offered April-October due to the frost season.
Horseback Riding Badge
Inquire about this badge, availability, and pricing by emailing
[email protected].
Snow or Climbing Adventure Badge
Come to our Schallock Center for Animals and explore a new winter sport: snowshoeing! We will provide snowshoes for you as well as help you get them on and teach you the basics of snowshoeing. A map of our trails will be provided for your troop to explore our winter wonderland!
Animal Helper Badge
Come tour our main shelter facility and learn about not only the shelter, but the special qualities animals have that help humans. We will touch on the human-animal bond, how animals keep people safe, how animals help people emotionally, and how the scouts can help animals.
Animal Science
Horses are large animals who require lots of daily care! During this program we will talk about what daily care and normal vet care is for a horse. The kids will be able to learn hands-on by grooming a horse and learning about each individual tool.
Dog Care
All ages are welcome to come work towards their Dog Care Merit Badge! Part of earning this badge is taking a tour of an animal shelter, and what better place than HAWS?! On this tour you’ll get to see where we wash laundry, do dishes, go through our adoption ward, and look at our SNIP clinic! We’ll also bring in 1-2 animals at the end.
Horsemanship
Contact [email protected].