Looking for a guide to help focus students’ learning while on a field trip?
These three student-centered worksheets can be used in any exhibit and tailored to your classroom content. The guides prompt students to closely study specimens, investigate artifacts, or think critically about evidence in an entire exhibit. Print them, mix and match, and help your students focus on learning during their field trip.
Focusing your field trip around a specific curricular theme?
These teacher-tested worksheets are ready to print, and come with a handy guide to assist your chaperones. Designed using Common Core, the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), and The C3 Framework for Social Studies, these guides are aligned to grade-level standards but can also be adapted for use with wide range of ages. Each guide also has helpful “Trip Tips” to support chaperones.
Planning a field trip?
This quick guide walks you through all the steps to help you plan a great field trip. A checklist for success, a focused field trip strategy, and more information about the exhibits you will see at the Museum will help you prepare for your trip. Print it or download it to your desktop.
The Specimens: Unlocking the Secrets of Life Educator Toolkit encourages students to consider the purpose of collecting, discover what can be learned through The Field Museum's vast collection of 30 million specimens and artifacts, and explore how Field Museum scientists use the collections to better understand our world.
Learn more about African Biodiversity in this Educator Guide for grades 3-5.
Learn more about Darwin in this Educator Guide.
Learn more about Dinosaur Dynasty – Discoveries from China in this Educator Guide.
Learn more about Dinosaurs - Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries in this Educator Guide.
Evolving Planet Crossword. Travel back through time to learn how evolution has created the mosaic of life on Earth. You can learn more about this exhibition on the Evolving Planet microsite.
Evolving Planet Educator Guide. Travel back through time to learn how evolution has created the mosaic of life on Earth. You can learn more about this exhibition on the Evolving Planet microsite.
