Field Trip Activities
Support Your Curriculum
Provide an educational and motivating experience for your students with a field trip to the Museum. Field trip activities include access to educator-only offerings pre-selected to support your science and social studies curriculum.
Field Trip Activity Sheets
Get chaperones and students involved in their Museum visit by downloading these activity sheets ahead of time.
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Set goals and create a timeline of planned activities and events before arranging your field trip.
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Space Junk
This visually explosive 3-D journey of discovery weighs the solutions aimed at restoring Earth's orbits.
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Flying Monsters
Gain new insight into one of the greatest mysteries in paleontology.
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Meerkats
Join a meerkat family — headed by fierce matriarch Clinky — as they cope with the challenges of life in the Kalahari Desert.
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Hands-On Laboratory
Help conduct real experiments using many of the tools and techniques of actual scientists.
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Design Challenges
Participate in a hands-on activity to design, build, and test a prototype solution to a given problem.
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Hands-On Investigations
Think like a scientist as you gather evidence and look for answers. Topics vary from chemistry investigations to making your own electricity.
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A Bird’s World
Take a virtual tour of Acadia National Park in this exhibit, which includes a specimen of every bird found in New England.
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Beyond the X-Ray
Explore some of the many non-invasive ways doctors look into the human body.
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Bradford Washburn: The Man Behind the Lens
Explore the story of Bradford Washburn, renowned mountaineer and Museum of Science founder.
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Butterfly Garden
Walk among the free-flying residents of this warm conservatory filled with exotic plants.
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Catching the Wind
Learn how turbines transform wind into green energy, and track the Museum's Wind Lab energy production.
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Cosmic Light
Explore the Milky Way Galaxy to discover a range of information about our universe.
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Cahners ComputerPlace
Chat with our virtual and human guides, operate a robot, and explore how information is stored on your computer.
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Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff
Get an up-close view of this 65-million-year-old fossil, discovered in the Dakota Badlands in 2004.
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Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic
Check out fossils and life-size models to learn how paleontologists compile evidence and change the way we view these extinct animals.
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Discovery Center
Put an animal skeleton together, touch a real fossil, or observe a variety of live animals up close.
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Energized!
Learn about sunlight, wind, moving water, and other self-replenishing sources that generate energy with fewer negative side effects.
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Innovative Engineers
Engineers' biographical stories show how the paths to engineering success are as diverse as their remarkable inventions.
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Investigate!
Practice thinking like a scientist by investigating different phenomena to try to understand the way the world works.
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Live Animal Exhibit
Visit this viewing area for a peek at some of the stars of the Museum's Live Animal presentations.
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Making Models
Learn about and practice with some of the basic tools that scientists use.
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Mapping the World Around Us
Check out a variety of maps, and try your hand at creating your own.
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Mathematica
Enjoy the wonder of mathematics and the beauty of post-modern design.
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Museum of Science: Then and Now
Learn the Museum's story through artifacts and interactive displays — from the "Chamber of Curiosities" to visions of the future.
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Nanotechnology
Explore the science of the super small in this exhibit developed by Museum-led NISE® Net (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network)
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Natural Mysteries
Observe a reference library of interesting objects, experience enticingly mysterious environments, and participate in activities.
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New England Habitats
Explore windows into wide-ranging landscapes, model birds, casts of feet, antlers, beaks, and other touchable elements.
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Science in the Park
Run, jump, swing, and use familiar objects to investigate the pushes and pulls of everyday life.
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Seeing Is Deceiving
Encounter dozens of examples of images that, on closer examination, are not what they appear to be at first glance.
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Take a Closer Look
Explore the world around you using sight, hearing, touch, and smell.
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The Light House
Explore the science behind light and color.
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The Rock Garden
See petrified wood from Arizona, Egyptian granite, our own Roxbury puddingstone, and more.
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To the Moon
See full-size models of the Apollo and Mercury capsules and a graphic timeline documenting the key era of human space exploration.
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WeatherWise
Join Boston-area meteorologists as they lead you through the steps of learning the valuable skill of nowcasting.
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Weems Animal Sculptures
See 30 of Katharine Lane Weems's bronze sculptures of animals displayed in this exhibit, the largest Weems collection in the world.
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Math Moves!
Experience the mathematical concept of ratio in this interactive exhibit.
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Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times
Enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see fragments of the priceless Dead Sea Scrolls and a collection of antiquities from Israel!
- Opens Sunday, May 19
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Ocean Stories: A Synergy of Art and Science
Look at oceanography in a new way through artwork by professional artists paired with ocean scientists from MIT and Woods Hole.
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Hall of Human Life
The Museum's Hall of Human Life exhibition will revolutionize how people understand their own biology.
- Opens Saturday, November 16
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Conserve @ Home
Discover the real energy sappers and savers in the home, and explore ways that you can make a difference.
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Behind the Headline
Explore an exciting science and technology story in the news.
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Balance and Motion
Investigate balance and how forces cause changes in motion.
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Butterfly Garden Experience
Experience butterflies up close through guided observations, and learn about their life cycles.
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Climate Change
Explore climate change and consider energy-efficient and emissions-saving alternatives.
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Earth and Space Exploration
Learn about our changing planet, and hear the latest news on space missions, our solar system, and beyond.
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Energy Challenges and Solutions
Investigate current energy issues, or explore tiny energy technologies.
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Exhibit Investigations
Participate in an investigation activity that supports curriculum standards.
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Fantastic Forces
A magician's tablecloth demonstrates relations between mass, velocity, acceleration, and force.
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Incredible Energy!
Projectiles, explosions, and brain-racking pendulums illustrate energy's many forms.
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Lightning!
Explore lightning and storm safety as the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator hurls indoor bolts.
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Live Animal Presentation
Discover the furry, feathered, and scaly residents of our Live Animal Center.
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Mind Games & Optical Illusions
Discover what perception-bending illusions reveal about the ways humans interact with the world.
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Our Bodies, Our Health
Check out health-related presentations on influenza, trans fats, cancer, asthma, stem cells, and more.
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Science Live!
A rotating schedule of live scientific discovery.
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Science Snapshot
Take a closer look at the latest in science and technology in our lives.
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Sound and Music
Explore volume and pitch with vibrations from a medley of improvised instruments.
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Super-Cold Science
Experience the extreme, even bizarre, effects heat and temperature have on solids, liquids, and gases.
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Technology in Our Lives
Learn all about the Large Hadron Collider, robotics, the future of computing, and more.
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Weather Wonders
Watch as indoor wind, clouds, fog, and snow are made right before your eyes!
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Science Magic
Enjoy the science behind magical demonstrations that reveal how "Science is magic that works." (Kurt Vonnegut)
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The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show
The atomic world as you've never seen before — hilarious, awe-inspiring, and educational!
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For Preschoolers: Live Animal Story Time
Hear a story and meet its animal star in a presentation made especially for our younger visitors!
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Nanotechnology
Check out how nanotechnology is transforming medicine, computing, energy, biological imaging, consumer products, and environmental stewardship.
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Invented Here!
Hear about local New England inventors and their amazing inventions with a new topic each month.
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Amazing Journeys
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Follow the life-and-death dramas of five of the most incredible animal migrations on the planet.
- Showing through Monday, May 6
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Forces of Nature
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
How are natural disasters triggered, and how can we prepare for them?
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Greece: Secrets of the Past
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Explore the Greek islands and glimpse the Parthenon's original glory.
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Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
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Experience the danger and beauty of the unknown West as it unfolded before the eyes of Lewis and Clark.
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The Greatest Places
Discover that nature — and human nature — are what unify us as a planet.
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Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk
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What happens in the body when we leap from an airplane? Explore the science of risk-taking with globetrotting skydivers and BASE jumpers.
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Journey Into Amazing Caves
Wriggle through passageways to discover the alien world beneath your feet!
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Africa: The Serengeti
Africa: The Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to East Africa to view a remarkable spectacle: the great migration.
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The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea
Fly across iridescent tropical reefs, brush through a cloud of jellyfish, and visit a world where the closer you look, the more you see.
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Rocky Mountain Express
Experience Canada's vast and rugged wilderness aboard an authentic steam locomotive.
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Explore the Galaxy
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Travel through the solar system and beyond in a tour of our stellar neighborhood.
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Explore the Solar System
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Explore our beautiful solar system and its thousands of varied worlds that are changing the way we view our neighborhood in space.
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Explore the Universe
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Take a grand tour of the cosmos, from Earth all the way to the farthest reaches of space and time.
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Explore: The Universe
Leave the Earth behind and take off with a Planetarium educator as your star pilot.
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Secrets of the Sky
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
This lighthearted musical program uses intrigue to spark students' interest in astronomical phenomena.
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Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun
Produced by the Museum of Science, this Planetarium show won Best Immersive Fulldome Program at the 2012 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards.
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The Sky Tonight
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
This star show addresses seasonal events and visible phenomena.
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Explore: The Sky Tonight
With an astronomy expert as your guide, find seasonal stars, constellations, and planets visible from New England.
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Ghosts of Jupiter: Music Experience
Ghosts of Jupiter: Music Experience takes you on a rock-and-roll journey through space and time.
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Dynamic Earth
See the inner workings of Earth's climate system.
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Moons: Worlds of Mystery
Take a journey through our solar system and explore the remarkable diversity and surprising might of moons!
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Big Bird's Adventure: One World, One Sky
Explore the night sky with your favorite friends from Sesame Street and learn about the Big Dipper, the North Star, and more!
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Explore: Stars Over the Dead Sea
Travel back in time to see the sky over the Dead Sea in the first century of the Common Era. Discover what has changed and what remains the same.
- Opens Sunday, May 19
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