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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.
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Get chaperones and students involved in their Museum visit by downloading these activity sheets ahead of time.
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The following offerings match one or more of your selections.
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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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Afternoon Report
Join our on-stage anchor for a rapid-fire news report touching on the latest headlines in your favorite science subjects.
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Afternoon Report: Earth Before Life
Join our on-stage anchor to discover what new research tells us about the steps leading to the origin of life on our planet.
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Amazing Journeys
Follow the life-and-death dramas of five of the most incredible animal migrations on the planet.
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Amazon Adventure
Experience the epic, true story of explorer Henry Bates's fascinating 11-year journey through the Amazon rainforest.
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Animation in Action
Investigate the role light, math, and your human brain can play while creating the illusion of motion.
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Animation Magic
Investigate the role light, math, and your human brain can play while creating the illusion of motion.
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Behind the Scenes: Help us test new exhibits!
Get a sneak peek into how exhibits get made and help us create new ones by testing out the newest exhibit ideas before they are finalized.
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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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Butterfly Garden Experience
Students enjoy an up-close experience with these amazing, beautiful flying insects.
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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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Charles River Field Station
Join a Museum educator and explore the river ecosystem with hands-on investigations in the Yawkey Gallery on the Charles River.
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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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Cosmic Light
Explore the Milky Way Galaxy to discover a range of information about our universe.
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Da Vinci: Engineering Through Imagination
Students will discover how many of the same methods that Leonardo da Vinci used 500 years ago contribute to modern marvels of engineering.
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Defeating Disease
Learn about efforts to eradicate infectious diseases as well as Boston’s role in treating polio patients and developing a cure.
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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.
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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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Explore the Galaxy
Travel through the solar system and beyond in a tour of our stellar neighborhood.
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Explore the Solar System
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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Extreme Weather
Take a thrilling journey through wildfires, tornadoes, and other extreme-weather conditions.
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Fantastic Forces
A magician's tablecloth demonstrates relations between mass, velocity, acceleration, and force.
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Greece: Secrets of the Past
Explore the Greek islands and glimpse the Parthenon's original glory.
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Gridiron Glory
Experience the story of professional football — from its humble beginnings to the cultural phenomenon it is today!
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Guest Research Presentation
Meet biologists, engineers, astronomers, meteorologists, and more in person and ask them your questions.
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Hall of Human Life
The Museum's Hall of Human Life exhibition revolutionizes how people understand their own biology.
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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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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.
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Incredible Energy!
Projectiles, explosions, and brain-racking pendulums illustrate energy's many forms.
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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
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Journey to Space
Take a cinematic journey from the birth of the Space Shuttle Program to humanity's first visit to Mars and beyond!
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Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
Experience the danger and beauty of the unknown West as it unfolded before the eyes of Lewis and Clark.
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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 Care Center
Visit this viewing area for a peek at some of the stars of the Museum's Live Animal presentations.
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Live Animal Presentation
Discover the furry, feathered, and scaly residents of our Live Animal Center.
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Living on the Edge
Experience a variety of edges, exploring boundaries between land, air, and sea.
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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.
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Many Faces of Our Mental Health
Through various art forms, gain an understanding of common misconceptions about mental health.
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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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More to Explore in POPnology
Join Museum educators for the hands-on activity of the day and explore the dynamic relationship between pop culture and technology.
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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
Check how nanotechnology is transforming medicine, computing, energy, biological imaging, consumer products, and environmental stewardship.
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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 Caterpillars: Life on the Leaf Edge
View beautiful images of charismatic moth and butterfly caterpillars from New England taken by naturalist Samuel Jaffe.
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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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POPnology
Embrace your inner POPnologist as you interact with robots, witness the world's first 3-D printed car, and more!
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Science and Technology in the News
This multi-topic presentation highlights current research and innovations across multiple STEM disciplines.
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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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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Students learn about Sir Ernest Shackleton's failed Antarctic expedition – one of the most triumphant survival stories of all time.
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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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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.
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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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Transportation
Trains, boats, and a real-life steam engine! Explore the history of transportation as you observe actual machines and realistic replicas.
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Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun
Go on a journey like no other as you learn how the discovery of exoplanets may lead us closer to finding an Earth-like world!
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Weather Wonders
Watch as indoor wind, clouds, fog, and snow are made right before your eyes!
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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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Wicked Smart: Invented in the Hub
This comprehensive new exhibit invites you to celebrate Greater Boston-based innovations and the creators behind them!
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Yawkey Gallery on the Charles River
This new signature experience invites you to observe the connections between natural habitats and engineered designs.
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