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School Field Trips
Visit the coolest classroom in Polk County!

Meet Florida Standards and explore 48,000 square feet curated just for kids.  Field Trips to Florida Children’s Museum inspire and encourage invaluable skills like critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and creativity. For K-3 classrooms, this is learning through play at its best! Customize your experience with an Explore! or an Explore & Engage! trip.

Your Trip Includes...

2 hours to explore,

Visit 4 Museum galleries designed for hands-on learning.

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free teacher admission,

Teacher admission is included in the price of a Field Trip.

Homeschool Workshops

and time for lunch!

You’ve got options. Bring your own lunches or order boxed options from Bonnet Springs Park.

Foster critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration through four museum galleries

Design Park

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City Play

T.B.D.

Field Trips: School Groups

Front Yard

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Customize Your Experience

Explore! with us. 

$14 per student  2 hour trip students visit 4 Museum Galleries

Your base level Field Trip includes 2 hours of Museum exploration through Design Park, City Play, T.B.D, and The Front Yard. Choose a start time of 10 am or 10:30 am. Teacher admission is included. Option to bring or purchase lunches.

  • Check out what grade-level standards your field tip meets with our Standards Alignment form. Click HERE to view. 

 

Upgrade to Explore & Engage! with us.

$16 per student  2.5 hour trip students visit 4 Museum Galleries
PLUS lesson with Museum Educator

Your upgraded Field Trip includes 2 hours of Museum exploration through Design Park, City Play, T.B.D, and The Front Yard. PLUS a manipulative-rich, standards-based lesson with a Museum Educator. Choose a start time of 10 am or 10:30 am. Teacher admission is included. Option to bring or purchase lunches.

  • Check out what grade-level standards your field tip meets with our Standards Alignment form. Click HERE to view. 

 

Explore & Engage Lesson Options:

Kindergarten & 1st Grade 2nd & 3rd Grade
Map Makers
Using key elements of geography standards, students create a large 3D map of a community with real objects.

Curious Cartographers
Students create a large-scale representation of a community,
using map skills to guide their work.

Movin’ and Zoomin’
Physical science standards meet the real world as students experiment with forces, gravity, and motion.

How Does That Move?
Physical science standards are applied as students engage with forces, motion, and gravity based on 2nd & 3rd grade standards.

Booking Your Trip

Details to know before booking:

  • All Adult Chaperones must be included in the Field Trip Payment. Adult Chaperones cannot pay separately and enter the Museum individually. 
  • Minimum ratio of 1:9 for supervision (teachers and chaperones) , maximum ratio of 1:3
  • Lunch options include: return to school, picnic at BSP Great Lawn, or purchase picnic lunches through BSP
  • Museum staff will guide field trip groups
  • Check out what grade-level standards your field trip meets with our Standards Alignment form. Click HERE to view. 

 

How to Book:

  1. Download and complete our Field Trip Planning Form.
  2. Click the button below to secure your field trip date and input details. 
  3. You’re ready to visit!
Book Your Trip!