MISSOURI
Field Trips

The Saint Louis Zoo, is home to over 13,000 animals representing 555 species, provides experiences include topics such as living systems, ecology, conservation, and scientific inquiry. 

Science City at Union Station is an interactive science center that features traveling exhibitions, The Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium, City Extreme Screen theatre, and more than 120 hands-on displays.

An authentic player piano fills the air with Scott Joplin melodies as you walk through the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, which stands as a testimony to his talent and hard work.

Shaw Nature Reserve is a nature reserve for studying nature. It is a premier educational, research and habitat restoration for wetland, a prairie and reconstruction site.

Shelter Gardens is a 5-acre botanic garden with every variety of plant life in the garden that has botanical information listed for their species.

Shoal Creek Living History Museum is an 80-acre park with authentic buildings documenting Missouri history. Visitors will experience hands-on 19th century living throughout our village.

Tours of Smallin Civil War Cave often include sightings of bats and salamanders. The Cave is rich in human history; Native American, pioneer, Civil War, and Baldknobber history.

The Butterfly House, run by the Missouri Botanical Garden, has hands-on, student-driven investigations that connect them with the world of butterflies and other insects.

The Springfield Art Museum has 10,000 works of art in the permanent collection that documents the cultural heritage of the people of southwest Missouri as well as national and worldwide art.

The Springfield Conservation Nature Center, a 80-acre slice of the Ozarks outdoors. Enjoy trails, bird watching at the viewing blind, guided nature tours and exhibits on conservation.

The Springfield-Greene County Botanical Center is on 114-acre site and has themed gardens, an arboretum, a Japanese Stroll Garden, a Butterfly House, a Play Trail, a tram service and a Farmstead.

The St. Louis Aquarium offers unique perspectives of their underwater world, from the local streams and rivers to the depths of the oceans. Explore the treasures of the Missouri and Mississippi waterways.