Field Trip Adventures
If a fully planned and guided day sounds like a dream come true, let our Field Trip Adventures do the work by maximizing your fun with activities designed to align with Colorado Academic Standards.
Choose from one of our preplanned, 3.5 hour experiences, and we will provide you with a detailed itinerary. Field Trip Adventures include a facilitated program, exhibit exploration, and lunch break. Details regarding times and locations can be found in a customized itinerary included in your confirmation email.
1 chaperone per 10 students is required.
Price: $235 per program of up to 32 students and 4 chaperones.
Please note that all bookings must be made at least 21 days in advance of their scheduled date.
A Spanish speaking bilingual educator may be available upon request. The Museum can also provide Spanish program materials for students and chaperones.
UnEarth Colorado: Discovering Teen Rex
Dig up Colorado's prehistoric past! Use real prehistoric evidence found in fossil analysis to become a junior paleontologist. This immersive experience allows students to interact with authentic prehistoric specimens and gather clues from ancient plants and animals. Then, embark on an extraordinary journey into the Museum's special exhibition "Discovering Teen Rex" to witness Museum paleontologists excavating a rare juvenile T.rex fossil, which is only one of four found worldwide.
Grades: 2 - 5
Amazing Animal Adaptations
In this fun, interactive adventure, your students will use a keepsake trading card game to explore how animals use specialized senses and parts of their body to adapt to their environment. This adventure includes investigation time in the Wildlife Halls and adaptation bingo throughout the Museum.
Grades: 2-5
Heart Lab
Explore the human body and the parts and function of the circulatory system using hands-on investigations and small-group dissections of real sheep hearts.
Grades: 3-5
Lung Lab
Explore the human body and the parts and function of the respiratory system using hands-on investigations and small-group dissections of real sheep lungs.
Grades: 3-5
Unraveling Mummies: Modern technology, dissection, and Ancient Egypt
In our Unraveling Mummies Field Trip Adventure, students use CT imaging and dissections of a real sheep heart to dig into the culture, anatomy, and mummification and burial practices exercised by ancient Egyptians.
Grades: 6-8
The Bear Necessities
In this facilitated studio program, your students will be immersed in a Colorado habitat as they become black bears and search for food, water, and shelter. Also, explore the Bears & Sea Mammals diorama halls using an exhibit guide designed to connect your class with the exhibition and learn through play in the Discovery Zone.
Grades: PreK - 1
Dinosaur Detectives
Become a paleontologist in this studio program. Your students will uncover clues from the past in order to imagine what it was like when Colorado's state dinosaur, Stegosaurus, roamed the land.
Grades: PreK - 1