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.
Access field trip activity sheetsPlan Ahead
Set goals and create a timeline of planned activities and events before arranging your field trip.
75 Results
The following offerings match one or more of your selections.
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
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
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Afternoon Report: What's New with Road Salt?
Learn where road salt comes from, where it ends up, and how we seek to balance our short-term needs with long-term environmental consequences.
- February 1 – February 28
- Get more information about this presentation
-
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
- Get more information about this film
-
Animals Without Passports
Follow along with humpback whales as they migrate from right here in Massachusetts to the Caribbean.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Balance and Motion
Investigate balance and how forces cause changes in motion.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
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!
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this show
-
Born to be Wild
Born to be Wild documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them.
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this film
-
Bradford Washburn: The Man Behind the Lens
Explore the story of Bradford Washburn, renowned mountaineer and Museum of Science founder.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Butterfly Garden
Walk among the free-flying residents of this warm conservatory filled with exotic plants.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Catching the Wind
Learn how turbines transform wind into green energy, and track the Museum's Wind Lab energy production.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Cosmic Light
Explore the Milky Way Galaxy to discover a range of information about our universe.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Design Challenges
Participate in a hands-on activity to design, build, and test a prototype solution to a given problem.
Get more information about this activity -
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Discovery Center
Put an animal skeleton together, touch a real fossil, or observe a variety of live animals up close.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Earth and Space Exploration
Learn about our changing planet, and hear the latest news on space missions, our solar system, and beyond.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Energized!
Learn about sunlight, wind, moving water, and other self-replenishing sources that generate energy with fewer negative side effects.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Energy Challenges and Solutions
Investigate current energy issues, or explore tiny energy technologies.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Exhibit Investigations
Participate in an investigation activity that supports curriculum standards.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Explore the Ancient Maya
From impressive architecture to decorative fashion and the foods families ate, explore what life was like in the cities of the ancient Maya.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
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
- Get more information about this show
-
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
- Get more information about this show
-
Fantastic Forces
A magician's tablecloth demonstrates relations between mass, velocity, acceleration, and force.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
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
- Get more information about this film
-
Galapagos
Journey with marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin of the Smithsonian Institution on her first trip to the famed archipelago.
- Showing Through April 16
- Get more information about this film
-
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
- Get more information about this film
-
Hall of Human Life
The Museum's Hall of Human Life exhibition will revolutionize how people understand their own biology.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Hands-On Laboratory
Help conduct real experiments using many of the tools and techniques of actual scientists.
Get more information about this activity -
Health Fair | Bacteria and Viruses: Bad and Good?
Learn and have conversations about the latest research from scientists and healthcare professionals who specialize in this field.
- Friday, March 20 | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Get more information about this event
-
Humpback Whales
Travel to Alaska, Hawaii, and the Kingdom of Tonga to see how these whales communicate, sing, feed, play, and care for their young.
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this film
-
Incredible Energy!
Projectiles, explosions, and brain-racking pendulums illustrate energy's many forms.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Innovative Engineers
Engineers' biographical stories show how the paths to engineering success are as diverse as their remarkable inventions.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Inside NASA: From Dream to Discovery
From blueprint to blastoff, see how unmanned space flight is pushing the frontiers of human exploration to the very edges of the universe!
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this show
-
Investigate!
Practice thinking like a scientist by investigating different phenomena to try to understand the way the world works.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Investigation Station
Think like a scientist as you gather evidence and look for answers. Topics vary from chemistry investigations to making your own electricity.
- Through Saturday, February 28
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Jerusalem
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Learn how Jerusalem's historical, artistic, and spiritual connections made it so important to so many different cultures.
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this film
-
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
- Get more information about this film
-
Lightning!
Explore lightning and storm safety as the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator hurls indoor bolts.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Live Animal Presentation
Discover the furry, feathered, and scaly residents of our Live Animal Center.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Making Models
Learn about and practice with some of the basic tools that scientists use.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Mapping the World Around Us
Check out a variety of maps, and try your hand at creating your own.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Math Moves!
Experience the mathematical concept of ratio in this interactive exhibit.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed
Uncover the rise and eventual decline of this complex civilization, including its social, natural, and spiritual realms.
- On Exhibit Through May 3
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Microrobotics Takes Flight
Test new methods for developing tiny, flying microrobots called RoboBees.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Mind Games & Optical Illusions
Discover what perception-bending illusions reveal about the ways humans interact with the world.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Moons: Worlds of Mystery
Take a journey through our solar system and explore the remarkable diversity and surprising might of moons!
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this show
-
Mosquito Engineering
Hear from a scientist about current research, and participate before or after the lecture in a 45-minute forum-style workshop to discuss.
- Tuesday, April 7 | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Get more information about this event
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Mystery of the Maya
Take a breathtaking trip through Maya culture and history with a modern-day archaeologist and a young Maya descendant.
- Showing Through May 3
- Get more information about this film
-
Nanotechnology
Check out how nanotechnology is transforming medicine, computing, energy, biological imaging, consumer products, and environmental stewardship.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Natural Mysteries
Observe a reference library of interesting objects, experience enticingly mysterious environments, and participate in activities.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
New England Habitats
Explore windows into wide-ranging landscapes, model birds, casts of feet, antlers, beaks, and other touchable elements.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Our Bodies, Our Health
Check out health-related presentations on influenza, trans fats, cancer, asthma, stem cells, and more.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Rediscovering the Maya
Learn what types of modern and also time-tested technologies are used to unearth this ancient civilization.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Road Salt: A 4,500 Mile Journey
Artist Allison Cekala traces Boston's road salt to its origin in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile through video and still photography.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Science in the Park
Run, jump, swing, and use familiar objects to investigate the pushes and pulls of everyday life.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Sound and Music
Explore volume and pitch with vibrations from a medley of improvised instruments.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Super-Cold Science
Experience the extreme, even bizarre, effects heat and temperature have on solids, liquids, and gases.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
Take a Closer Look
Explore the world around you using sight, hearing, touch, and smell.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Tales of the Maya Skies
Learn how science, art, and mythology connected the Maya to the universe as you immerse yourself in the beauty of Chichen Itza, Mexico.
- Showing Through May 3
- Get more information about this show
-
Technology in Our Lives
Learn all about the Large Hadron Collider, robotics, the future of computing, and more.
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
The Colby Trophy Room
See original artifacts and animals representing both the life travels of Colonel Francis T. Colby and the mindset of a generation.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
The Human Body
This offering is available only to schools as part of a Museum field trip.
Take a look, in astonishing detail, at the biological processes that go on without our control — and often without our notice.
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this film
-
The Light House
Explore the science behind light and color.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
The Photography of Modernist Cuisine
Experience the colorful and surprising world of food as you have never seen it before!
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
The Rock Garden
See petrified wood from Arizona, Egyptian granite, our own Roxbury puddingstone, and more.
- On Exhibit
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
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
- Get more information about this show
-
Weather Wonders
Watch as indoor wind, clouds, fog, and snow are made right before your eyes!
- Currently Offered
- Get more information about this presentation
-
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
- Get more information about this exhibit
-
Wonders of the Winter Sky
Starting amid the festive lights of the Boston Common, a live presenter takes you on an adventure through the celestial sights of the season.
- Now Showing
- Get more information about this show
To receive our E-News, enter your email address:
Updates, special offers, and fun science: