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 four 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. 

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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

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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

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Amazing Animal Adaptations: Animals of the Rainforest

In this fun, interactive adventure, your students will participate in a facilitated program highlighting adaptations of animals in six different habitats using Museum collections.  Your students will explore how animals use specialized senses and parts of their body to adapt to their environment in the Field Trip Adventure program.  Then, students have the opportunity to visit the Museum's temporary exhibition, Animals of the Rainforestwhere they will get to meet some of the rainforest's incredible inhabitants, including live sloths, reptiles, and amphibians! 

Grades: 2-5

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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. Also, visit Expedition Health using a guide designed to connect your class with the exhibition.

Grades: 3-5

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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. Also, visit Expedition Health using a guide designed to connect your class with the exhibition.

Grades: 3-5 

Two students exploring wearing white lab coats and purple gloves complete a science experiment in Expedition Health

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 & burial practices exercised by ancient Egyptians.  Modern technology allows us to view and study mummies like never before. Using CT scans and dissections of a real sheep heart, students dig into the culture, anatomy, beliefs, and mummification & burial practices exercised by ancient Egyptians. This laboratory experience combines these explorations of culture, anatomy, CT-scanning, organ function, and density to help students understand ancient Egyptian mummification as well as the application of modern technology in studying ancient cultures. 

Grades: 6-8

Please note this program is not available as a bilingual (Spanish) program.

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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

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Dinosaur Detectives

Become a paleontologist in this studio program! Facilitated by a professional Museum educator, uncover clues from the past in order to imagine what it was like when Colorado’s state dinosaur, Stegosaurus, roamed the land. Explore Prehistoric Journey using a guide designed to connect your class with the exhibition, and learn through play in Discovery Zone.

Grades: PreK - 1

Frequently Asked Questions

Are there resources to help me prepare for my visit? 
Yes! Click below for more information: 
Field Trip Checklist
School Bus Map

What is the customized itinerary?
The customized itinerary contains details of your entire field trip from arrival to departure. The only fixed times are the program start times. 

What is the exhibit guide?
This tool is designed to help teachers and chaperones explore the exhibit space with their students and connect to the dissection lab. Guides are available in English and Spanish.