After completing a unit on habitat conservation, Allendale Elementary School’s fifth-grade team takes their students on a field trip to a local wildlife center at a state nature preserve. While there, the students are given opportunities to touch living creatures native to the area and perform simple experiments focusing on various types of pollution and its effect on habitats. They then watch presentations on recycling and proper disposal of certain types of garbage. What would be the most logical justification for this field trip?