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 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.
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.
Then, travel even further back in time and dive into the ancient marine depths with the Museum’s temporary exhibition, “Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep” and come face-to-face with fascinating and fearsome sea creatures from our prehistoric past. Please note exhibit entry for this special exhibition is timed and only valid for visits booked between 3/21/25 and 9/7/25.
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. Together, you'll answer critical questions related to biology, evolution, and habitats. This adventure also includes investigation time in the Wildlife Halls and adaptation bingo throughout the Museum.
Grades: 2-5
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 Rainforest, where they will get to meet some of the rainforest's incredible inhabitants, including live sloths, reptiles, and amphibians!
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. Also, visit Expedition Health using a guide designed to connect your class with the exhibition.
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. Also, visit Expedition Health using a guide designed to connect your class with the exhibition.
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 & 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.
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! 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