Field Trip Activity Sheets
Get chaperones and students involved in their Museum visit by downloading these guides and activity sheets ahead of time. We are always adding new material, so please check back often.
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Pre-K - Adult
Pre-K - Adult
- A Day in Pompeii Educator Guide (Field Trip Activity)
- A Day in Pompeii provides a unique opportunity to learn about ancient Roman culture as well as consider the power of volcanoes to transform the planet's landscape and affect lives. Students are encouraged to investigate artifacts from various perspectives, including that of scientists, engineers, artists, and historians ... (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Bio Poem (Field Trip Activity)
- An excellent language arts connection, the Bio Poem worksheet helps students write a creative poem about an animal in the Museum. After choosing an animal from our living collections, students fill in each line of the poem, highlighting the animal's characteristics, adaptations, and environment. This ... (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Butterfly Garden Observation Worksheets (Field Trip Activity)
- Suggested for students in grades 3 - 5, these activities encourage students to make and record observations about butterfly adaptations in the Butterfly Garden. Using the Butterfly Behaviors worksheet, students observe the various movements and behaviors of butterflies and tally their results. With ... (details).
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Grades:
2 - 3
2 - 3
- Butterfly Garden Sentence Starters (Field Trip Activity)
- Suggested for grades 2 - 3 as a language arts connection, this activity helps students make and record observations about the Butterfly Garden. The worksheet prompts students to fill in basic sentences with ideas, questions, and observations relating to their experience learning about butterflies in the Museum ... (details).
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Pre-K - 2
Pre-K - 2
- Collecting Data (Field Trip Activity)
- This worksheet provides a great math connection and encourages students in grades K - 2 to collect data and make observations about our chick hatchery and height chart in the Human Body Connection. These basic questions, facilitated by a teacher or chaperone, enrich students' interactions with these favorite exhibit areas ... (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Compare and Contrast (Field Trip Activity)
- Students can use this Venn diagram graphic organizer to compare and contrast interesting objects, artifacts, or animals that they find in the Museum based on their characteristics. This activity can be applied to any exhibit about any topic. It is recommended for grades 3 - 5 but could easily be successful with older or younger students ... (details).
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1 - 1
1 - 1
- Creative Scavenger Hunt (Field Trip Activity)
- This worksheet allows educators to select a theme and a specific exhibit or group of exhibits in which the theme might be explored. A theme from the classroom can be introduced, expanded, reconsidered or assessed through this activity. Some teachers of upper grades have had success in making this ... (details).
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Grades:
1 - 1
1 - 1
- Everyone's a Critic (Field Trip Activity)
- Individuals or groups visiting the Museum of Science can use this worksheet if the trip's objective is for the learners to experience an exhibit and think critically about it. Learners are asked to write a review of the exhibit after experiencing it during their field trip. Teachers can assign a specific ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 10
3 - 10
- Evolution Adventure! (Field Trip Activity)
- These four-page study sheets are designed to help engage learners in the evolution stories of one or two organisms while exploring the Natural Mysteries exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston. Each Evolution Adventure cover page presents a picture of something to find within the exhibit. The next ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 12
3 - 12
- Field Trip Guide: A Day in Pompeii (Field Trip Activity)
- Learn about what the rocks and artifacts of the ancient Roman civilization of Pompeii tell us about the past. Guide Highlights: A Day in Pompeii, Vesuvius: Story of an Eruption, Earth and Space Exploration, and Greece: Secrets of the Past. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 5
3 - 5
- Field Trip Guide: Animal Adaptation (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Human Body Connection, Live Animal presentation, A Bird's World, and Natural Mysteries. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Pre-K - 8
Pre-K - 8
- Field Trip Guide: Dinosaurs and Fossils (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia, Live Animal presentation, and Natural Mysteries. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. These guides provide chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Field Trip Guide: Engineering and Simple Machines (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Design Challenges, Cahners ComputerPlace, Science in the Park, and Nanotechnology Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. It also ... (details).
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Pre-K - 8
Pre-K - 8
- Field Trip Guide: Estimation (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Take a Closer Look, Making Models, Bees, and Natural Mysteries. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. These guides provide chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. Each includes a map that highlights the points of interest ... (details).
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Grades:
6 - 8
6 - 8
- Field Trip Guide: Evolution and Natural Selection (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Human Body Connection, Live Animal presentation, Natural Mysteries, and Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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Pre-K - 2
Pre-K - 2
- Field Trip Guide: Eye Spy: Observing the Natural World (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Discovery Center, Live Animal presentation, Natural Mysteries, and New England Habitats. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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2 - 5
2 - 5
- Field Trip Guide: Geometry (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Bees, Mathematica, Natural Mysteries, and WeatherWise. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. These guides provide chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. Each includes a map that highlights the points of interest ... (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Field Trip Guide: Graphing (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Human Body Connection, Science in the Park, Investigate! A See-for-Yourself Exhibit, and Weatherwise. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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4 - 8
4 - 8
- Field Trip Guide: Group Perspective and Learning (Field Trip Activity)
- Explore exhibits through the lens of a mathematician, a scientist, and an artist. Guide highlights: Making Models, Natural Mysteries, Take a Closer Look, and the opportunity to choose your own exhibit. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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1 - 3
1 - 3
- Field Trip Guide: Insects (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Butterfly Garden, Bugs!, Making Models, and Natural Mysteries . Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. It also includes a map that highlights the points of interest ... (details).
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K - 3
K - 3
- Field Trip Guide: Patterns and Measurement (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Mathematica: A World of Numbers & Beyond, Natural Mysteries, Human Body Connection, and Discovery Center. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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3 - 6
3 - 6
- Field Trip Guide: Probability (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Human Body Connection, Mathematica, Natural Mysteries, and WeatherWise. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. These guides provide chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. Each includes ... (details).
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4 - 8
4 - 8
- Field Trip Guide: Scale (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: Making Models, Playing by the Rules, Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, and WeatherWise. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. This guide provides chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip ... (details).
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3 - 8
3 - 8
- Field Trip Guide: What's the Weather? (Field Trip Activity)
- Guide highlights: WeatherWise, Lightning!, Live Presentations, and Omni films. Please note that some programs require advance reservations or additional tickets. These guides provide chaperones with themed recommendations for programs and shows to see during your field trip. Each includes a map that highlights the points of interest ... (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Graphical Stories in the Exhibit Halls (Field Trip Activity)
- Ask a question, collect data, and find the answer using a graphical story, such as a line graph or pictograph. Find worksheets below for Human Body Connection, Science in the Park, and WeatherWise. (details).
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2 - 4
2 - 4
- Guide to Simple Machines (Field Trip Activity)
- Although the Museum does not have an exhibit focused specifically on the study of simple machines, teachers can find related learning experiences throughout the Exhibit Halls. This guide offers a selection of activities for you and your students to use on your visit, including Simple Machine Tic Tac Toe and Modeling Simple Machines ... (details).
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Grades:
K - Adult
K - Adult
- Guide to the Human Body Connection (Field Trip Activity)
- The Human Body Connection, one of the Museum's five staffed exhibit spaces, encourages teachers and students in grades pre K - 12 to explore multiple themes in biology, including physiology, evolution, and variability. This guide provides an overview of the major topics covered within the Human Body ... (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Investigate! Data Collection Sheet (Field Trip Activity)
- This worksheet supports the Investigate! exhibit learning objectives to ask questions, control variables and collect data. It works best when students have practiced using this sheet in a classroom investigation before coming to the Museum. Students can collect data in an exhibit and, with the help ... (details).
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Grades:
4 - 9
4 - 9
- Physics in Science in the Park and Investigate! (Field Trip Activity)
- These focusing activity sheets utilize exhibit components to explore the science of physics. Students perform tasks including calculation, data collection, and graphing. The activities cover concepts that are generally suited to students in middle school and above. Although the PDF includes all ten ... (details).
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1 - 1
1 - 1
- Poetry in the Museum (Field Trip Activity)
- This is an activity that requires students to make careful observations and chose specific language to describe those observations. It is a fun and simple way to connect science and language arts. You Will Need: Twenty index cards per group, a pad of paper, and a marker or pen for each group. What ... (details).
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Grades:
3 - 12
3 - 12
- Rock Garden Guide and Map (Field Trip Activity)
- In the Museum's shady outdoor rock garden, students can examine rocks and minerals from all over the world and explore their often fiery origins. Download this guide for a helpful glossary, detailed map of the garden, and suggestions for related Museum exhibits to visit. (details).
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3 - 5
3 - 5
- Simple Machines Bingo (Field Trip Activity)
- As your students explore the Museum of Science, they look for simple machines and gears being used in different areas. This activity sheet is a bingo card that they use to keep track of their progress. (details).
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3 - 5
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- Tamarin Observation Data Sheet (Field Trip Activity)
- While viewing the live tamarin family on exhibit within the Human Body Connection, students can make careful observations of primate behavior. The attached data sheet was designed to help focus these observations. Ask the Human Body Connection staff how to tell the tamarins apart and also about their ... (details).
