Other Field Trip Activities
Get students involved in their Museum visit with these activities. Download worksheets ahead of time.
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Grades:
2 - 10
2 - 10
- Creative Scavenger Hunt (Field Trip Activity)
- This worksheet allows educators to select a theme and a specific exhibit or group of exhibits in which the theme might be explored. A theme from the classroom can be introduced, expanded, reconsidered or assessed through this activity. Some teachers of upper grades have had success in making this ... (details).
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Grades:
6 - 12
6 - 12
- CSI: The Experience Educators' Guide (Field Trip Activity)
- Rice University has prepared 10 engaging classroom lessons on various aspects of forensic science for students to use before or after their visit to CSI: The Experience. The hands-on lessons include teacher notes, and they help students understand skills and techniques used to solve real crimes. These ... (details).
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Grades:
4 - 10
4 - 10
- Design Challenges (Field Trip Activity)
- Working in small teams, participants experience the engineering process first hand by designing, constructing, and testing a prototype. Specific challenges vary throughout the year. Capacity: 25 participants at a time. Seating is first come, first served. This project is currently funded through ... (details).
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Grades:
4 - 12
4 - 12
- Everyone's a Critic (Field Trip Activity)
- Individuals or groups visiting the Museum of Science can use this worksheet if the trip's objective is for the learners to experience an exhibit and think critically about it. Learners are asked to write a review of the exhibit after experiencing it during their field trip. Teachers can assign a specific ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 10
3 - 10
- Evolution Adventure! (Field Trip Activity)
- These four-page study sheets are designed to help engage learners in the evolution stories of one or two organisms while exploring the Natural Mysteries exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston. Each Evolution Adventure cover page presents a picture of something to find within the exhibit. The next ... (details).
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Grades:
5 - 8
5 - 8
- Exploring Evolution in the Museum (Field Trip Activity)
- Biological evolution is a process that underlies all of modern biological sciences. There are many opportunities for students to explore how evidence supports the theory of evolution, how modern classification relates to evolutionary relationships, and the evolutionary stories of many organisms. The ... (details).
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Grades:
2 - 4
2 - 4
- Guide to Simple Machines (Field Trip Activity)
- Although the Museum does not have an exhibit focused specifically on the study of simple machines, teachers can find related learning experiences throughout the Exhibit Halls. This guide offers a selection of activities for you and your students to use on your visit, including Simple Machine Tic Tac Toe and Modeling Simple Machines ... (details).
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Grades:
5 - 8
5 - 8
- Investigate! Data Collection Sheet (Field Trip Activity)
- This worksheet supports the Investigate! exhibit learning objectives of asking questions, controlling variables and collecting data. It works best when students have practice using this sheet in a classroom investigation before coming to the Museum. Students can collect data in an exhibit and, with ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 9
3 - 9
- Key Questions and Light (Field Trip Activity)
- How does light travel? How are shadows formed? What is color? This worksheet draws directly on key questions from a specific set of science standards, in this case light and color. This worksheet asks participants to find exhibit components that help them better understand a question, not necessarily ... (details).
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Grades:
Pre-K - Adult
Pre-K - Adult
- Mathematical Questions to Ask in Investigate! (Field Trip Activity)
- This PDF describes components of the Investigate! exhibit that include math concepts, along with suggested questions you can ask students to bring out the mathematics. These questions have been mapped to the National Math Standards. (details).
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Grades:
Pre-K - Adult
Pre-K - Adult
- Mathematical Questions to Ask in Making Models (Field Trip Activity)
- This PDF describes components of the Making Models exhibit that include math concepts, along with suggested questions you can ask students to bring out the mathematics. These questions have been mapped to the National Math Standards. (details).
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Grades:
Pre-K - Adult
Pre-K - Adult
- Mathematical Questions to Ask in Natural Mysteries (Field Trip Activity)
- This PDF describes components of the Natural Mysteries exhibit that include math concepts, along with suggested questions you can ask students to bring out the mathematics. These questions have been mapped to the National Math Standards. (details).
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Grades:
Pre-K - Adult
Pre-K - Adult
- Mathematical Questions to Ask in Human Body Connection (Field Trip Activity)
- This worksheet describes components of the Human Body Connection exhibit that include math concepts, along with suggested questions you can ask students to bring out the mathematics. These questions have been mapped to the National Math Standards. (details).
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Grades:
3 - 8
3 - 8
- Poetry in the Museum (Field Trip Activity)
- This is an activity that requires students to make careful observations and chose specific language to describe those observations. It is a fun and simple way to connect science and language arts. You Will Need: Twenty index cards per group, a pad of paper, and a marker or pen for each group. What ... (details).
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Grades:
5 - 10
5 - 10
- Tamarin Observation Data Sheet (Field Trip Activity)
- While viewing the live tamarin family on exhibit within the Human Body Connection, students can make careful observations of primate behavior. The attached data sheet was designed to help focus these observations. Ask the Human Body Connection staff how to tell the tamarins apart and also about their ... (details).
