Field Trips: School Groups

Field Trips for K-3 classes support Florida standards in multiple domains and allow students exploration in multiple galleries. Critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity are fostered as children interact with intentionally curated exhibits in the museum. This is learning through play at its best! Explore! trips (2 hours) or Explore and Engage! trips (2.5 hours) are available.

Field trips for the 2024-25 school year are now available for booking!

Trip Options:

Explore!  with us.

This trip includes 2 hours of Museum exploration in 30 minute rotations. Students will visit 4 Museum galleries: City Play, Design Park, T.B.D, and the Front Yard. 

Upgrade to Engage! 

This trip includes 2 hours of Museum exploration, PLUS a manipulative-rich, standards-based lesson with a Museum educator. Choose from 2 lesson topics. 

Explore and Engage!  K and 1st Grade Lessons

  • Sort It Out  –   Using observation and the five senses, students find ways to sort a collection based on unique attributes, devloping Nature of Science knowledge.
  • Movin’ and Zoomin’  – Physical science standards meet the real world as students push and pull, moving objects and themselves with a variety of forces. 

Explore and Engage!  2nd and 3rd Grade Lessons

  • Tell Me About It  – Observation, reasoning, and precision are applied as students explore volume and mass with different states of matter. Delops Nature of Science knowledge.
  • How Does That Move? – Physical science standards come to life as students engage with forces, motion, and gravity through multiple engineering challenges. 

Galleries Included in School Field Trips:

Design Park

Students will engage with exhibits focused on engineering, gravity, forces, and friction while building, testing, and improving their designs.

City Play

Students will engage with more than 10 exhibits that allow for role-playing and problem solving. The space allows for independent play and collaborative interactions with others.

T.B.D.

Students will engage with their senses as they create, interpret, and respond to original sounds, dramatic movement, and uniquely generated scenes though self-selected materials and technology.

The Front Yard

Gross motor play and self-directed activities will support students’ physical and cognitive development, self-expression, and discovery of objects in the natural world.

Info for Teachers and Chaperones

  • Minimum ratio of 1:9 for supervision (teachers and chaperones) , maximum ratio of 1:3
  • Museum staff will guide field trip groups through the rotation schedule. 
  • Lunch options include: return to school, picnic at BSP Great Lawn, or purchase picnic lunches through BSP

Please download the Field Trip Planning Form for complete details. 

Booking Your Trip

  1. Download and complete our Field Trip Planning Form
  2. Click the button below to secure your field trip date and input details. 
  3. You’re ready to visit!