History Center Field Trips: Museum Package
Select one of these activities to help your students
examine artifacts and uncover stories in the History
Center’s museum exhibits. Teachers and chaperones
work with small groups of students to facilitate each
activity.
Please allow 1-2 hours in the museum
to complete activities.
Fee: $4 per student
(teachers and chaperones free)
EXPLORE!
Students become “history
detectives” and dig deeper into exhibit themes and
content when they answer questions using our Explore!
booklets. Each student receives an illustrated booklet
with questions and activities that guide and encourage
interaction with the exhibits. Chaperones and teachers
are provided with answer keys to help them facilitate
discussion.
MUSEUM MARVELS!
While exploring the museum, each student
seeks out one object or item that is interesting, unusual,
or truly a “marvel” to him or her. Chaperones are provided
with cameras to take photos of the students next to
their favorite things. Students put the photo on a
scrapbook page and answer questions about their object
and about the day’s museum adventures. Past participants
have used the pages to make a class book or to decorate
school hallways.
Availability of this program is restricted
due to a limited number of cameras.
- Student scrapbook pages are available in six different grade levels: Pre–K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-9 and 10-12
NOW ON DISPLAY!
Take on the role of an exhibit curator! Students are
given a booklet to help them create their own museum.
Using different organizing themes, students explore
the exhibits to find items that will fit into a museum
of their own. Students answer questions that help them
describe and interpret the items they have selected
and explain how they fit into their museum.
