Other Field Trip Activities
Get students involved in their Museum visit with these activities. Download worksheets ahead of time.
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Pre-K - 8
Pre-K - 8
- Chaperone Guide: A Day of Dinosaurs (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights (grades Pre K - 2): Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff, Discovery Center, and Natural Mysteries. Guide highlights (grades 3 - 8): Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, Natural Mysteries, Live Animal presentation, and Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 5
3 - 5
- Chaperone Guide: Animal Adaptation (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Human Body Connection, Live Animal presentation, A Bird's World, and Natural Mysteries. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 5
3 - 5
- Chaperone Guide: Engineering and Simple Machines (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Design Challenges, Cahners ComputerPlace, Science in the Park, and Investigate! Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. It also ... (details).
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Grades:
6 - 8
6 - 8
- Chaperone Guide: Evolution and Natural Selection (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Human Body Connection, Live Animal presentation, Natural Mysteries, and Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Grades:
Pre-K - 2
Pre-K - 2
- Chaperone Guide: Eye Spy: Observing the Natural World (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Discovery Center, Live Animal presentation, Natural Mysteries, and New England Habitats. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 5
3 - 5
- Chaperone Guide: Graphing (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Human Body Connection, Science in the Park, Investigate! A See-for-Yourself Exhibit, and Weatherwise. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Grades:
1 - 3
1 - 3
- Chaperone Guide: Insects (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Butterfly Garden, Bugs!, Making Models, and Natural Mysteries . Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. It also includes a map that highlights the points of interest ... (details).
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Grades:
4 - 8
4 - 8
- Chaperone Guide: Models, Shapes, and Puzzles (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Seeing is Deceiving, Making Models, Mathematica: A World of Numbers & Beyond, and Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Grades:
K - 3
K - 3
- Chaperone Guide: Patterns and Measurement (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Mathematica: A World of Numbers & Beyond, Natural Mysteries, Human Body Connection, and Discovery Center. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Grades:
4 - 8
4 - 8
- Chaperone Guide: Scale (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Making Models, Transportation and Machines, Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, and Seeing is Deceiving. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 8
3 - 8
- Chaperone Guide: What's the Weather? (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights (grades 3 - 5): WeatherWise, Electricity!, Making Weather, and Omni films. Guide highlights (grades 6 - 8): WeatherWise, Electricity!, Climate Change, and Omni films. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. These guides provide chaperones ... (details).
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Grades:
1 - 1
1 - 1
- 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:
1 - 1
1 - 1
- 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:
3 - 5
3 - 5
- Graphical Stories in the Exhibit Halls (Field Trip Activity)
- Ask a question, collect data, and find the answer using a graphical story, such as a line graph or pictograph. Find worksheets below for Human Body Connection, Science in the Park, and WeatherWise. (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:
K - Adult
K - Adult
- Guide to the Human Body Connection (Field Trip Activity)
- The Human Body Connection, one of the Museum's five staffed exhibit spaces, encourages teachers and students in grades pre K - 12 to explore multiple themes in biology, including physiology, evolution, and variability. This guide provides an overview of the major topics covered within the Human Body ... (details).
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Grades:
1 - 1
1 - 1
- 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:
1 - 1
1 - 1
- 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 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:
1 - 1
1 - 1
- 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:
3 - 12
3 - 12
- Rock Garden Guide and Map (Field Trip Activity)
- In the Museum's shady outdoor rock garden, students can examine rocks and minerals from all over the world and explore their often fiery origins. Download this guide for a helpful glossary, detailed map of the garden, and suggestions for related Museum exhibits to visit. (details).
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Grades:
3 - 5
3 - 5
- Simple Machines Bingo (Field Trip Activity)
- As your students explore the Museum of Science, they look for simple machines and gears being used in different areas. This activity sheet is a bingo card that they use to keep track of their progress. (details).
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Grades:
3 - 5
3 - 5
- 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).
