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Field Trips on the Metro!
No bus money?
Metro's Transit Education Team is excited to offer the Student Field Trip Program, which provides access to 20 approved destinations - including the Natural History Museum!
Interested? Click here to learn more!
Add to Your Field Trip Experience
Interested in adding more to your visit? Consider signing up for additional programming, including:
- Dinosaur Hall
- Butterfly Pavillion and Spider Pavilion
- Dinosaur Encounters, Ice Age Encounters, and Encounters, Jr.
- Fossil Detectives and more!
These require advance reservations, so request a visit now, they fill up fast!
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Pre- and Post-Visit Activities: Into, Through & Beyond
A more in-depth approach, these lessons are built around grade-specific essential questions and offer a sequence of pre, during, and post-field trip activities. By exploring these lessons, you can find ways to
- integrate your field trip into your classroom curriculum
- focus on grade specific essential questions
- support State Standards
- activate student prior knowledge
- engage minds
- expand thinking
Kindergarten
Essential question: What kinds of places become homes?
Grade 1
Essential question: How do living things depend on each other and their habitat?
Grade 2
Essential question: How have peoples' lives changed throughout time?
Grade 3
Essential question: What affects survival?
Grade 4
Essential question: How is space claimed? Why is space claimed?
Grade 5
Essential question: What makes something valuable?