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Planning for summer field trips for camp groups, scout groups or summer school groups, you can combine summer fun into an educational experience. Our lesson plans can help camp counselors, with no teaching experience, turn a recreational field trip into an educational experience for Amusement Parks, Baseball Games, Boat Excursions, Bowling, Gellyball, Go-Karts, Laser Tag, Ice & Roller Skating, Mini Golf, Ninja Course, Paintball, Trampoline Parks, Ziplines and Waterparks. Please visit the Field Trip Lesson Plan section to help enrich your field trips. For field trips to Aquariums, Botanical Gardens, Living History Sites and Museums ask if they have educational guided tours and hands-on activity sheets. 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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Glass House

Built by architect Philip Johnson in 1949, the Glass House is an essay in minimal structure, geometry, proportion, and the effects of transparency and reflection.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
Danbury - Metro
New CanaanTEL - 203-594-9884

Goodwin Conservation Center

Visit the 2,000-acre James L. Goodwin State Forest, native wildlife garden, and nature center with your group and take part in the Goodwin Conservation Center’s educational ecology-based programs.

GRADE LEVEL - Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Overnight Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
HamptonTEL - 860-455-9534

Grow Hartford

Grow Hartford is an urban farm that encourages youth groups to rise up against food injustice and other human rights issues affecting the community.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Self-Guided Activities, Guided Activities. COST - Fee, Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
HartfordTEL - 860-296-9325

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

At the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, learn about the Abolitionist movement and Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and historic documents about 19th-century social issues.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
HartfordTEL - 860-522-9258

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Hartford Symphony Orchestra offers special pricing on its regular performances for students, and an array of in-school programs that offers a broad spectrum of musical activities.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Performances. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School CONNECTICUT
HartfordTEL - 860-246-8742

Highwire Deer & Animal Farm

Visit Highwire Deer & Animal Farm to see is home to exotic animals that love visitors. Groups can feed and pet the goats, deer, and other critters.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Activities COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
WoodburyTEL - 203-263-4522

Hill-Stead Museum

Hill–Stead Museum is a 1901 Colonial Revival mansion filled with priceless works of art and antiques set on 152 gorgeous acres in Farmington, CT.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities, Self-Guided Activities. COST - Fee, Financial Support GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
VIRTUALTEL - 860-677-4787 ext. 140.

Housatonic Museum of Art

The Housatonic Museum of Art collection offers students and the community alike the opportunity to view works that span the history of art from the ancient to the contemporary.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Guided Tours COST - Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
BridgeportTEL - 203-332-5052

Hurlbutt Street School house

From 1834 thru 1935, the Hurlbutt Street School House, a one-room school provided an education for as many as thirty children at one time, in grades one through eight. Currently it serves as a living museum where school children can visit for a day and learn the ways of earlier times.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Self-Guided Activities COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
Danbury - Metro
WiltonTEL - 203-761-0069

Imagine Nation

With hands-on indoor exhibits and an outdoor learning center, Imagine Nation offers visitors an interactive way to learn on topics on science, art and social topics.

GRADE LEVEL - Early Childhood, Elementary School COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
BristolTEL - 860-314-1400

Indian Rock Nature Preserve

Explore 280 acres of untouched land at Indian Rock Nature Preserve. At the Preserve’s Barnes Nature Center, study environmental studies and culture with focus on nature, Native Americans, and more.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, School, Camp, Homeschool CONNECTICUT
BristolTEL - 860-583-1234

John J. McCarthy Observatory

The McCarthy observatory is a state-of-the-art facility that include a 16-ft. dome observation deck, control room, library, and an outdoor observing deck with 4 telescopes.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities. COST - Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family CONNECTICUT
Danbury - Metro
New MilfordTEL - 860-946-0312
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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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