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More Information about Field Trips

Contact Rachel Foster
303.561.0113
rachelf@cmdenver.org

Bring your classroom to the Museum for a field trip focused on literacy, science, environmental awareness and more.

Our programs and exhibits meet a variety of Colorado Model Content Standards and, even better, your kids will experience a playful way of learning!

Child-guided Field Trips

Explore on your own and visit Playscapes at your own pace.
Length: 90-minute visit
Price: $4.50/child

Programmed Field Trips

Bring your group for a facilitated program and time to explore the Museum on your own.
Length: 2-hour visit: Includes 45 minute program and 1 hour 15 minutes of child-guided experience. (Just Toolin’ Around program is 1 hour and 30 minutes, with a 2 hour 45 minutes visit)
Price: $6.50/child (Just Toolin’ Around is $7.00/child)

The grade designation given with each description represents the developmental appropriateness of each programmed field trip.

Around the World with Professor Wiggleworts

This program is great for large groups!

Recommended Grades: K to 2nd

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Group Size: min 15, max 75
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Discover the cultural riches of Ghana, China and Mexico through music, dance and interactive stories. The Professor is sure to make you laugh and encourages appreciation for diversity, customs, celebrations, history and traditions.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 2
  • Social Studies Standard 2
  • Drama and Theater Arts Standard 3

Bubble Lab

Check out our bubbling Bubble Lab!

Recommended Grades: 1st to 3rd*

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Promising young scientists will learn about bubbles and their amazing properties. Then, using bubble solution ingredients and measuring instruments, they will develop and test their very own formula for bubble solution! (Bubble Lab does not take place in the Bubbles exhibit.)

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Science Standard 1
  • Math Standards 3 and 4
  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 4
  • Health and Physical Education Standard 3

*3rd grade visit includes program only

Circle of Life *New!*

Read and dance your way around the changes and adaptations animals, insects and plants make during their lifetime.

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to 2nd

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 1
  • Music Standard 1
  • Drama and Theater Arts Standard 2
  • Dance Standards 1 and 2
  • Science Standard 2

Earth Balloon

Step inside our 26-foot-tall Earth Balloon for a spectacular look at our planet.

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to 3rd*

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Rivers, mountains and oceans! Learn about the major features of the Earth.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 2
  • Social Studies Standard 2

*3rd grade visit includes program only.

Just Toolin’ Around

Grab a hard hat and enter the construction zone where children practice team skills using real tools, large-scale building materials and blueprints to build a six-foot-tall house.

Recommended Grades: K to 3rd*

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Group Size: min 15, max 40
Program Length: 1 hour 30 minutes (Plus 90 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Students practice reading and comprehension skills to interpret design plans and work to understand directions. Children will need closed-toe shoes to participate safely.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Math Standards 3 and 4
  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standards 1 and 4
  • Health and Physical Education Standard 3

*3rd grade visit includes program only.

Nature Detectives

Student detectives look for tell-tale clues of backyard creatures while uncovering the mysteries behind living and non-living things.

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to K

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

This adventure will delight the senses while supporting important life sciences content and boosting science literacy.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Science Standard 2
  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 2

Star Lab

Come into our portable planetarium and explore the night sky!

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to K

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Students learn to identify objects in our solar system and listen to myths and stories inspired by the stars.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Science Standard 3
  • Drama and Theater Arts Standard 3
  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 2

Stories from Around the World with the Earth Balloon

Experience the origins of stories and myths while sitting inside our 26-foot-tall Earth Balloon.

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to 1st

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Social Studies Standard 2
  • Drama and Theater Arts Standard 3
  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 2

Stuffee

Learn about your body and how it functions, inside and out, while getting tips for staying healthy.

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to 1st

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Science Standard 2
  • Health and Physical Education Standards 1 and 2
  • Music Standard 1

The Gingerbread Man

This program is great for large groups!

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to 1st

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Group Size: min 10, max 75
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Follow the adventures of a mischievous little cookie, when nursery rhymes and fairytales come to life with the help of your students.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Drama and Theater Arts Standards 1, 2 and 3
  • Music Standard 1
  • Reading, Writing and Communicating Standard 2

Tubular Tunes

Through noisy experiments, learn how sound energy is produced and travels as a wave.

Recommended Grades: 1st to 2nd

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Group Size: min 15, max 25
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Budding inventors will use what they've learned to build a giant PVC pipe phone!

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Music Standards 1 and 2
  • Health and Physical Education Standard 3

Whose Habitat is it Anyway?

Become immersed in the natural world while gaining respect for how and with whom we share our backyard.

Recommended Grades: 1st to 2nd

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Using costumes and imagination, children turn into animals searching for the resources necessary to survive in a crowded habitat.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Science Standards 2 and 3
  • Drama and Theater Arts Standard 1

World Dance and Drumming

Celebrate culture around the world!

Recommended Grades: Pre-K to 1st

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Group Size: min 10, max 35
Program Length: 45 minutes (Plus 75 minutes to explore the Museum.)

Take a journey through rhythm and beats while learning all about drums and dance from around the world. We combine culture, history and geography into this musical program, and each student can try their hand at different drums.

This program supports the following NEW Colorado Model Content Standards:

  • Music Standards 1, 2, 3 and 4
  • Dance Standard 1
  • Social Studies Standard 2