Self-Guided School Group Field Trips
Get Ready for a School Group Visit to the Museum
Request a Reservation Discounted and special pricing for School Group Field Trips is based upon making a reservation with at least two weeks advance notice. Field Trips without reservations are not recommended. Due to Museum occupancy limits, groups that arrive without a reservation may be turned away.
Recruit Adult Chaperones UMNH requires a ratio of one adult for every eight students in a group. Group chaperones are admitted free of charge on the day of the visit with advance reservations.
Download the School Group Checklist This attached .pdf has all the information you need to prep you, your adult chaperones, and your bus driver for your visit.
Download the School Group Checklist
Review Learning Guides The UMNH education staff has developed resources to help you connect the Museum exhibits to Utah Core Curriculum requirements. We also offer a Learning Guides that are both grade and subject specific.
Exhibit Correlations to the Utah Core Curriculum
UMNH Field Trip Learning Guides
Make a Pre-Trip Visit Educators planning a Field Trip may visit UMNH at any time for free. Check in at the Admissions Desk.
Prepping Your Students
Classroom Worksheets UMNH has developed a Know - Want to Learn - Learned Worksheet to help your students get as much as they can out of their Museum Field Trip. Consider using this KWL framework with your class before your visit.
Download the Know - Want to Know - Learned Worksheet
Teacher Resources Check out the Teacher Resources website section for more ideas on integrating the Museum Field Trip with your class activities.
UMNH exhibits support many of the Utah Core Curriculum requirements. Below is a list of current permanent exhibits and the elements within them that illustrate the State Core Curriculum Standards. Lists are in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format, and are sorted by grade level.
Download Learning Guides
These learning guides will help your class explore the Museum. Download and distribute the guides before your visit. Hard copies are not available at the Museum.
Grade-specific Guides
Search & Inquire Activities Designed to help visitors of any age explore our exhibits and make observations.
Final Details
Worksheets & Learning Guides While we strive to keep these worksheets updated, there are times when the worksheet may not coincide with an exhibit that has been changed or reorganized. Please notify us if you find discrepancies. We also know that you have developed great ways to experience the Museum. If you would like to share any worksheets or ideas that you have developed, please email us at fieldtrips@umnh.utah.edu.
Bus Parking Buses are not allowed on Presidents Circle! Students must disembark school buses on University Street just south of the Public Bus Stop. Please notify your driver of this University of Utah regulation. Buses may be ticketed if they enter Presidents Circle.
Cancellation We request 48 hours notice for cancellation of any group visit should your plans change.
Contact Us Email fieldtrips@umnh.utah.edu
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