Special Field Trip Days

Learn it! Do it! Days are themed extravaganzas on popular topics. Students participate in hands-on activities and experiments throughout the museum, and even take home some of the products they create.

On Learn It! Do It! Days, museum educators welcome your students at hands-on stations throughout the museum. Students explore these stations in small chaperone-led groups, participate in hands-on activities, experiments, and presentations, and even take home some of the products they create.

Wild Weather Extravaganza

Nov 3, 2023, Jan 26, 2024
Grades 1-4
$13
*Add-on themed 20 minute Planetarium Show: $2
2 hours
150 students

Build a working weather station, explore extreme weather, and travel through the water cycle. Planetarium add-on: You can add on a 20-minute show about the weather on our planet and on other planets.
Key Concepts: changes in weather, severe weather, weather instruments

Geology Rocks

October 20, 2023, March 15, 2024
Grades 2-6
$13
*Add-on themed 20 minute Planetarium Show: $2
2 hours
150 students

Learn the differences between rocks and minerals, find out what minerals hide in everyday objects, learn how earthquakes happen, and touch a two-billion-year-old rock! Planetarium add-on: You can add on a 20-minute show about plate tectonics and rocks on other planets.
Key Concepts: rock cycle, types of rocks, minerals, erosion, plate tectonics, fossils