Custom Field Trips    (maximum occupancy: 75 students per day)
 

Native American Studies
Beat of the Drum
This tour takes 2 hours.  Plus a half hour for a Lunch break
Each student will leave with a greater knowledge of Native American weaponry, dancing, food, legends, and shelters. They will also experience many hands on activities in and around our Native American Room along with a class in our tepee – weather permitting. 

Our most beloved Field Trip!

$5.00 per student (includes one craft, Medicine Bags are the standard favorite).  $3.00 per adult.  Teachers are free.

Please choose one of the following projects to complete and take home as part of this experience: 

  • Rock Art
  • Medicine Bags
  • Groups can choose an additional Native American craft for a $1.00 per person.
   

Science- Geology
The Fossil Field Trip
This tour takes 2 hours.  Plus a half hour for a Lunch break.
Students will rotate to stations throughout the Museum that will:

  • practice fossil identification and the Geologic Time Scale,
  • see the many ways fossils are made,
  • experience the Ice Age,
  • take a tour of the Fossil Exhibit,
  • and peck out of a plaster and sand matrix their own fossil discoveries to take home.
  • Each child will leave with 3-4 fossil’s from their fossil pecking experience
  • Part of the tour can also focus on Rocks and Minerals
  • Dinosaur Puppet Show -depending on availability

$5.00 per student (includes one craft).  $3.00 per adult.  Teachers are free.

 

Choose Your Own Field Trip

2-3 hours depending on activity selection and request.
Please add a half hour for lunch if you would like to break for lunch in the middle of the tour.
Maximum of 75 students
$6.00 per student

This is a way to custom-make your student’s tour experience!  Each bulleted activity below takes approximately 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 – ponies, ships, trains, and 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
  • Medicine Bags

Bird & Egg Room

  • Live Bird presentation ($35.00 additional transport charge for eagle, owl, hawk, or falcon)
  • Bird adaptations eggs, feet, and beaks. Lesson Plan info here.

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

Pioneer Room

  • Innovation, early education, and a child’s life 50 to 70 years ago.
  • 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: 
  • $6.00 per student;
  • $3.00 per parents;
  • Teachers are free

Time commitment: 2 - 3 hours plus your lunch time. 
 
 

General Tour –

This tour can accommodate 100 students at a time.

    Cost:
  • 3.00 per student.
  • $3.00 per adult.
  • Teacher are free. 

Time commitment:  Approximately 2 hours based upon group size. 

Our regular tour includes the following: 

A guide gives a presentation in each room as well as time for individual exploration. 

Exhibits and presentations now include school curriculum for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. 

Extended Tour Activities (Workshops)

Each workshop or extended field trip activity will be an additional $2.00 added to the general admission fee, plus an additional ½ hour in length added to the tour.  The $2.00 covers the additional instruction and supplies needed to complete the craft or project.  Each student typically takes home a completed craft or project treasure.

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. 
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.
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.
Pecking Fossils – Students will each receive a fossil matrix that has 3-4 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.
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.