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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.  

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (TCM)

The AAM accredited Children’s Museum creates extraordinary learning experiences across the arts, sciences, and humanities. Visit TCM’s Museum at Home for virtual activities.

GRADE LEVEL - Early Childhood, Elementary School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours, Self-Guided Activities, Performances COST - Fee GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family INDIANA
Central Region
Indianapolis
TEL - 317-334-4000

The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park

Take in woodlands, wetlands, meadows, and the lake shoreline at AAM accredited Fairbanks Park at Newfields—one of the largest art parks in the country. View birds of prey via webcam and other virtual resources.

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Self-Guided Tours COST - Fee, Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family INDIANA
Central Region
Indianapolis
VIRTUAL
TEL - 317-923-1331

Warrick County Museum

The Warrick County Museum offers interactive programs on pioneer living and the history of Warrick County to schools and organizations.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Guided Activities COST - Fee, Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool INDIANA
Boonville
Evansville
South Region
TEL - 812-897-3100

Willard Library

The oldest public library in Indiana, Willard Library offers history tours to classes and families, as well as children’s activities and literacy programs. A librarian will even come to you!

GRADE LEVEL - All Grades PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours, Self-Guided Activities, Guided Activities, Outreach COST - Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family INDIANA
Evansville
South Region
TEL - 812-425-4309

Wylie House Museum

Built in 1835 by Andrew Wylie, first president of Indiana University, the Wylie House is now a historic house museum. Collections include family artifacts, photographs, and archival materials. The heirloom gardens provide historic interpretation, seed-saving programs, and education.

GRADE LEVEL - Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College PROGRAM TYPE - Day Trips, Guided Tours COST - Fee, Free GROUP TYPE - School, Scout, Camp, Homeschool, Family INDIANA
Bloomington
South Region
TEL - 812-855-6224
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About us

FieldTripdirectory.com offers enriching experiences for Indiana school groups, scout groups, homeschool groups, camp groups and families at Indiana Museums.

Indiana Museums offer field trips that offer hands-on exhibits, guided tours and guided activities for early childhood through high school grades. Indiana 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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