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Time commitment: Approximately 2 hours based upon group size.
Our regular tour includes the following:
Live presentations are given in each room as well as time for individual exploration.
Exhibits and presentations now include school curriculum for the 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.
Make sure to check out our workshops and Odyssey Tours in this section. Teacher surveys have indicated these have been very popular and a great opportunity for students to have hands-on activity.
Workshops & Extended Tour Activities
Each workshop chosen will be $1.00 plus an additional ½ hour in length added to the general tour. Each workshop contains some instruction about the subject as well as a take home item.
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Rock Art (Native American) – students will be given an opportunity for artistic expression as they design their own piece of rock art panel as did the Native American Cultures of the Southwest did years ago. |
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Figurines/Pottery (Native American) – utilizing pottery and figurine samples, each student will create a pot or figurine utilizing information given. The coils, burnishing stones and temper are all part of the process. |
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Dream Catchers (Native American) – students will each learn the story of the Spider Woman and then create their own web to catch bad dreams and spirits. We highly recommend 4th grade and up. |
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Pecking Fossils – Students will each receive a fossil matrix that has 3-5 real fossils inside that need to be pecked out of the rock. What a great way to start their own collection. Fossils include: trilobites, crinoid stems, ammonites, sharks teeth, brachiopods, gastropods etc. |
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Pioneer games – Pioneer children didn’t have a lot of free time from doing their chores, but the games that they played with were usually from items around the house/area and very inexpensive. Students will learn to do the cats cradle, play marbles and spin the buzz saw. Of course, each kit will be yours for each student. |
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Panning and Sluicing for gold (Rocks and Minerals) – Each student will receive their own bag of mining rough in which to pan or sluice for the hidden minerals in the bag (Of course, fools gold – not real gold). Mining was introduced to Utah in the mid-1800’s and it is great fun to discover the mineral treasures using real mining methods. Only available in September and the first part of October – middle of April through the middle of June. |
Additional Activity Add-ons
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**Live Bird Show – An introduction to birds and animals (with real falcons, a golden eagle, hawks and more) Learn about where and how these animals live, their adaptations for flight and hunting. Presentation made by Skymasters and is 45 minutes in length $1.00 per person including parents. |
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**History Quest – a Museum oriented history quest with clues hidden around the Museum. Read our book, find the clues, figure out the message, report the phrase and win your prize which includes a treat as well as a one use family pass to the museum. This can be done in groups of 3 to 4 and will take about 1 hour. $1.50 per student. |
Odyssey Tours (maximum occupancy: 75 students)
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Beat of the Drum – (Native American) Each student will participate in activities that include legends, weaponry, dancing, food and it’s preparation, archaeology, and shelters. A room tour of the Native American Room (including a class in our tepee – weather permitting).
Please choose two of the following projects to complete and take home as part of this experience:
- Dreamcatchers (3rd grade and up)
- figurines/pottery
- Rock Art
- Medicine Bags
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If Rocks Could Talk – (Fossils) Each student will participate in activities that include the study of dinosaurs, fossil identification, how fossils are made, fossilized animal adaptations, Ice Age, Fossil Exhibit Tour and Treasure Hunt, Geologic Time Scale, Green River Formation and start their own fossil collection from fossils in a plaster matrix. |
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The Hutchings School of Discovery
Discovery Tour:
3 hours (Lunch time is not included in the 3 hours)
Maximum of 75 students
$4.00 per student
This is a way to custom-make your student’s tour experience! Each bulleted activity below takes thirty minutes. Please choose 2 blue star activities and 4 green dot  activities.
Wild West Room
- Outlaw lore and legends and booked into jail
- Early communication – telegraph and mochilla; tap on the telegraph
Native American Room
- Weapons – atl atls,
- Knapping demonstration
- Petroglyphs – Rock Art
- Food sources and wilderness survival – mano and matate activity
- Teepee life and Native American legends
- Games
Bird & Egg Room
- Hunt for real bird eggs
- Live Bird presentation
- Bird adaptations eggs, feet, and beaks
Fossil Room
- Fossil Pecking
- Sorting Fossils Kits
- Green River Formation and Fish presentation (and take one home)
- How fossils are made presentation
- The Ice Age presentation
Mineral Room
- Pan for gold and discuss rock properties (weather permitting)
- Fluorescing rocks – the how and why
- Rock puppet show –let the rocks tell you about themselves
- Green Rocks
Pioneer Room
- Pioneer children’s games - buzz saws and marbles
- Pioneer hand tools
- Early schools through history and watch The Little Rascals
- Pioneer stories
If you would like to add more than 6 of the bulleted activities to your tour, it will add a half hour to your tour and $1.00 per participant.
If you would like to still have just 6 activities, but more blue activities, the cost is $1.00 per participant for each additional blue activity added beyond the original 2. |
Cost:
- $4.00 per student;
- $3.00 per parents;
- Teachers are free
Time commitment: 3 hours plus your lunch time. This year, we offer three in-depth study opportunities. These odysseys do not include the regular tour and are focused on activities that provide a more comprehensive study of their topics.
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