Custom Field Trips    (maximum 75 students and a minumum requirement of 20 students)
 

Native American Studies
Beat of the Drum
This tour takes 2 hours. 
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. 

Our most popular 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. 
Students will rotate to stations throughout the Museum to:

  • Practice fossil identification and the Geologic Time Scale,
  • See the many ways fossils are made,
  • 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

$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.
Maximum of 75 students and minimum of 20
$5.00 per student (includes 1 craft)

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 andLehi's first jail
  • Early communication –Pony Express and the telegraph.

Native American Room

  • Weapons – atl atls,
  • Knapping demonstration
  • Petroglyphs – Rock Art
  • Food sources, drum, and wilderness survival – mano and matate activity
  • Native American legendsand dwellings.
  • Medicine Bags

Bird & Egg Room

  • Bird adaptations eggs, feet, and beaks. Lesson Plan info here.

Fossil Room

  • Fossil Pecking
  • Sorting Fossils Kits
  • Green River Formation and Fish presentation
  • How fossils are made presentation

Mineral Room

  • World Class Rock and Mineral Room with hands on meteorites and gems. Also learn about poisonous rocks, rocks you eat, man made rocks, native elements, crystals etc.                                         
  • Fluorescing rocks – the how and why

Pioneer Room

  • Innovation, early education, and a child’s life 50 to 70 years ago.
  • Pioneer history and stories

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. 
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.  Geared for ages 12 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.