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To help plan March & April curriculum focused classroom activities, field trips and school assembly programs, these monthly themed celebrations might be a helpful focus. MARCH. Monthly: National Reading Month, Music in Our Schools, Craft Month, National Nutrition, National Women’s History, and National Ethics Month. APRIL: Monthly: Keep America Beautiful. National Gardens. National Poetry. Jazz Appreciation. Global Astronomy. National Humor. Arab Heritage. Weekly/Daily:  Apr. 2: International Children’s Book Day. Apr. 5: National Geologists Day. Read a Road Map Day. April 5-9: National Wildlife Week. Apr. 8: Draw a Picture of a Bird Day. Zoo Lovers Day. Apr. 10: National Farm Animals Day. Apr. 12: International Day of Human Space Flight. April 13: International Plant Appreciation Day. Scrabble Day. Apr. 19-25: National Library Week. National Volunteer Week. CLICK on the ACTIVITY FILTER below for activity type of field trips to learn about. For those unable to travel to these locations, have the fun come to you. Check out the Outreach Field Trips & School Assembly Programs section.  

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Connecticut Science Center

The Connecticut Science Center provides a fun, high-tech space for groups to explore physics, forensics, geology, and astronomy with 165 hands-on exhibits.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Activities COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
HartfordTEL - 860-520-2150

Connecticut State Capitol

The Connecticut State Capitol’s tour will take students, scouts, homeschoolers, and campers through the East Atrium, Hall of Flags, Main Lobby, Capitol Concourse, and more.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours. COST - Free GROUP TYPE - School, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
HartfordTEL - 860-240-0222

Connecticut Supreme Court

More than 100 years old and the highest court in Connecticut, the External Affairs Division of the Connecticut Judicial Branch provides tours of the Supreme Court courtroom on weekdays.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours. COST - Free GROUP TYPE - School, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
HartfordTEL - 860-757-2270

Creamery Brook Bison

Creamery Brook Bison is a working farm that offers guided wagon tours of its 110 acres where groups will see buffalo and emu as they roam around freely.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, School, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
BrooklynTEL - 860-779-0837

Custom House Maritime Museum

The Custom House Maritime Museum, located in downtown New London, tells the history of the local waterfront through artifacts, tours, and events.

GRADE LEVEL - Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College COST - Fee, Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
New LondonTEL - 860-447-2501

Danbury Railway Museum

The Danbury Railway Museum is a railway museum housed in the former Union Station and offers a short train excursions. The museum’s mission is to educate the public as to the history of railroading and to the role of the railroads as part of our local and national heritage.

GRADE LEVEL - Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Activities COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
Danbury - MetroTEL - 203-778-8337

Darien Nature Center

The Darien Nature Center is home to woodland trails, streams, marshes, and prairie pockets. Visitors can meet animals at the Center and participate in naturalist-led programs.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout CONNECTICUT
DarienTEL - 203-655-7459

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center’s 350-acre sanctuary allows groups to learn about southeastern Connecticut’s habitats, wildlife, and plants through natural history exhibits and hands-on displays.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
Mystic
New LondonTEL - 860-536-1216

Dinosaur State Park & Arboretum

Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum features more than 500 Early Jurassic dinosaur footprints, interactive exhibits that highlight dinosaurs, evolution, and Connecticut geology.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades, Elementary School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
Rock HillTEL - 860-529-5816

Downtown Cabaret Theatre

The Downtown Cabaret Theatre offers a diverse array of performances, including a children’s theater, musical theater and many popular Broadway musicals.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
BridgeportTEL - 203-576-1636

Dudley Farm Museum

Visit the 19th-century Dudley Farm Museum, and discover what life was like in the year 1900 on the farm. With costumed interpreters, tour the restored farm and hear stories about the home’s inhabitants.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
GuilfordTEL - 203-457-0770

Earthplace - The Nature Discovery Center

Earthplace is a nature center, wildlife sanctuary, and natural history museum home to many trails, animals, and indoor natural history exhibits and dioramas.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
Danbury - Metro
WestportTEL - 203-557-4400
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FieldTripdirectory.com offers enriching experiences for Connecticut school groups, scout groups, homeschool groups, camp groups and families at Connecticut Museums.

Connecticut Museums offer field trips that offer hands-on exhibits, guided tours and guided activities for early childhood through high school grades. Connecticut Art Museums, Science Museums, History Museums, Multicultural Museums and Children’s Museums offers educational experiences that support classroom curriculum and scout badge achievement. Beside museums, you can search for other learning experiences at Botanical Gardens, Planetariums, Living History Programs, STEM & STEAM, Planetariums, Farms, Zoos and Aquariums, Theaters and Concerts, Service Learning and more.

Can’t go on a field trip to a museum, your students, scouts, and families can still experience these fun enriching experience by scheduling a Museum Virtual Field Trip anywhere and at anytime.

Want the fun to come to you- book a School Assembly Programs, Outreach Field Trips or Residency at your school, homeschool association or scout council. They support and enhance a school’s curriculum, offers opportunities for scout badge achievement and enriches a camp program. There are mobile museum exhibits, traveling planetariums and classroom and grade level workshops and residencies.

To help fund field trips, virtual programs and school assembly programs visit our section on Grants and Fundraising Programs.

 

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