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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The following offerings match one or more of your selections.
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2theXtreme: MathAlive!
Interact with sports, music, fashion, games, and more in this immersive experience that reveals there is math behind everything we do!
- Opens Sunday, May 25
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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.
- On Exhibit
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Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
What happens in the body when we leap from an airplane? Explore the science of risk-taking with globetrotting skydivers and BASE jumpers.
- Now Showing
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Afternoon Report
Join our on-stage anchor for a rapid-fire news report touching on the latest headlines in your favorite science subjects.
- Currently Offered
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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.
- Now Showing
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Balance and Motion
Investigate balance and how forces cause changes in motion.
- Currently Offered
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Beyond the X-Ray
Explore some of the many non-invasive ways doctors look into the human body.
- On Exhibit
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Bradford Washburn: The Man Behind the Lens
Explore the story of Bradford Washburn, renowned mountaineer and Museum of Science founder.
- On Exhibit
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Butterfly Garden
Walk among the free-flying residents of this warm conservatory filled with exotic plants.
- On Exhibit
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Cahners ComputerPlace
Think like a computer, operate a robot, and explore how information is stored on your computer.
- On Exhibit
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Catching the Wind
Learn how turbines transform wind into green energy, and track the Museum's Wind Lab energy production.
- On Exhibit
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Climate Change
Explore climate change and consider energy-efficient and emissions-saving alternatives.
- Currently Offered
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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.
- On Exhibit
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Cosmic Light
Explore the Milky Way Galaxy to discover a range of information about our universe.
- On Exhibit
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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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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.
- On Exhibit
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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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Earth and Space Exploration
Learn about our changing planet, and hear the latest news on space missions, our solar system, and beyond.
- Currently Offered
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Energized!
Learn about sunlight, wind, moving water, and other self-replenishing sources that generate energy with fewer negative side effects.
- On Exhibit
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Energy Challenges and Solutions
Investigate current energy issues, or explore tiny energy technologies.
- Currently Offered
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Exhibit Investigations
Participate in an investigation activity that supports curriculum standards.
- Currently Offered
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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.
- Now Showing
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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.
- Now Showing
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Fantastic Forces
A magician's tablecloth demonstrates relations between mass, velocity, acceleration, and force.
- Currently Offered
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Flight of the Butterflies
Go on an awe-inspiring journey as you follow the Monarch butterfly's spectacular migration.
- Now Showing
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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?
- Now Showing
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Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
Share the rush and exhilaration of whitewater rafting down the Colorado River with two renowned environmental crusaders and their daughters.
- Opens Saturday, April 12
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Greece: Secrets of the Past
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Explore the Greek islands and glimpse the Parthenon's original glory.
- Now Showing
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Hall of Human Life
The Museum's Hall of Human Life exhibition will revolutionize how people understand their own biology.
- On Exhibit
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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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Incredible Energy!
Projectiles, explosions, and brain-racking pendulums illustrate energy's many forms.
- Currently Offered
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Innovation in the Art of Food: Chef Ferran Adria
Walk through a living history of elBulli, the legendary Spanish restaurant helmed for 25 years by world-famous chef Ferran Adrià.
- On Exhibit
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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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Investigation Station
Think like a scientist as you gather evidence and look for answers. Topics vary from chemistry investigations to making your own electricity.
- Currently Offered
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Journey to the South Pacific
Swim with the world's largest shark, encounter mysterious creatures of the sea, and explore the planet's most spectacular coral reefs.
- Now Showing
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Kitchen Questions
Explore the secrets of food, what we like about it, or where it comes from with the hands-on activity of the day.
- Currently Offered
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Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Experience the danger and beauty of the unknown West as it unfolded before the eyes of Lewis and Clark.
- Now Showing
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Lightning!
Explore lightning and storm safety as the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator hurls indoor bolts.
- Currently Offered
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Live Animal Care Center
Visit this viewing area for a peek at some of the stars of the Museum's Live Animal presentations.
- On Exhibit
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Live Animal Presentation
Discover the furry, feathered, and scaly residents of our Live Animal Center.
- Currently Offered
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Magic Tree House: Space Mission
Prompted by a mysterious note left in their tree house, brother-and-sister duo Jack and Annie embark on a wondrous journey of adventure.
- Now Showing
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Making Models
Learn about and practice with some of the basic tools that scientists use.
- On Exhibit
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Mapping the World Around Us
Check out a variety of maps, and try your hand at creating your own.
- On Exhibit
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Math Moves!
Experience the mathematical concept of ratio in this interactive exhibit.
- On Exhibit
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Mind Games & Optical Illusions
Discover what perception-bending illusions reveal about the ways humans interact with the world.
- Currently Offered
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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!
- Now Showing
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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.
- On Exhibit
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Nanotechnology
Check out how nanotechnology is transforming medicine, computing, energy, biological imaging, consumer products, and environmental stewardship.
- Currently Offered
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Natural Mysteries
Observe a reference library of interesting objects, experience enticingly mysterious environments, and participate in activities.
- On Exhibit
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New England Habitats
Explore windows into wide-ranging landscapes, model birds, casts of feet, antlers, beaks, and other touchable elements.
- On Exhibit
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Our Bodies, Our Health
Check out health-related presentations on influenza, trans fats, cancer, asthma, stem cells, and more.
- Currently Offered
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Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture
Explore the complex and intricate food system that brings what we eat from farm to fork.
- On Exhibit
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Pi Day
Hear how researchers and mathematicians use pi in their work and why math matters. Students will also participate in a healthy pi challenge!
- Friday, March 14 | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
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Planning for a Changing Climate
Find out what can and should be done to protect the health and safety of the public from the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise.
- Tuesday, May 6 | 9:30 – 11:30 am or 11:45 am – 1:45 pm
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Rocky Mountain Express
Experience Canada's vast and rugged wilderness aboard an authentic steam locomotive.
- Now Showing
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Science in the Park
Run, jump, swing, and use familiar objects to investigate the pushes and pulls of everyday life.
- On Exhibit
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Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Follow an inquisitive paddle-limbed Dolichorhynchops as she navigates North America's ancient inland ocean.
- Now Showing
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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.
- On Exhibit
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Sound and Music
Explore volume and pitch with vibrations from a medley of improvised instruments.
- Currently Offered
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Super-Cold Science
Experience the extreme, even bizarre, effects heat and temperature have on solids, liquids, and gases.
- Currently Offered
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Survivor!
Attend a paleopathology lecture and participate in hands-on activities throughout the Museum, including in the Hall of Human Life.
- Thursday, April 3 | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
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Take a Closer Look
Explore the world around you using sight, hearing, touch, and smell.
- On Exhibit
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Technology in Our Lives
Learn all about the Large Hadron Collider, robotics, the future of computing, and more.
- Currently Offered
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The Light House
Explore the science behind light and color.
- On Exhibit
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The Rock Garden
See petrified wood from Arizona, Egyptian granite, our own Roxbury puddingstone, and more.
- On Exhibit
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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.
- On Exhibit
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We Are Aliens!
This new Planetarium show explores how our understanding of life on Earth guides the search for alien life elsewhere in the universe.
- Now Showing
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Weather Wonders
Watch as indoor wind, clouds, fog, and snow are made right before your eyes!
- Currently Offered
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WeatherWise
Join Boston-area meteorologists as they lead you through the steps of learning the valuable skill of nowcasting.
- On Exhibit
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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.
- On Exhibit
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