Please note: This entry of The Journal is from December 2019. Please contact the venues to verify current availability and details, which may have changed.
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The spring semester is here and it’s time to get your students out of the classroom and off campus for an adventure! Planning and executing a field trip can be stressful on top of all the responsibilities you’re already juggling as an educator, so we’ve done some of the groundwork for you to find the hottest field trip destination spots in DFW.
Location: Canton, Tx
Price: $9 per student
Description: Fun at the farm with a multi-sensory interaction with living things that bring real-life experiences to your science lessons. This spring, students can learn the growing process and importance of the sunflower on the farm, then plant and take home their very own to grow!
Location: Frisco, Tx
Price: $20 per student, lunch included (special rates available for Title 1 campuses per request)
Description: A dynamic, real-life city built to inspire, educate and empower kids through immersive learning experiences. Through role-playing authentic professions of their choice, elementary and middle school students can take on various responsibilities throughout the city, learning essential life and career skills.
Location: Lewisville, Tx
Price: $8 per student for Title 1 campuses
Description: “Newton’s Top 3” is designed to demonstrate Sir Isaac Newton’s Three Laws of Motion, as well as help students understand how the solar system works and moves. Interskate’s “Rolling with Science” field trips provide one hour of STEM activities and two hours of physical fitness for grades 2-12.
Location: Dallas, Tx
Price: $9-10 per student (Bus stipend and discounted admission available with financial assistance application form)
Description: Choose from a teacher-led learning gallery program, classroom lab, outdoor lab or explore the arboretum at your own pace. The Dallas Arboretum offers a variety of adventure garden learning activities to choose from for grades K-6 including topics like the planetarium, oceans, energy, space, earth cycles, biomes and more.
Location: Dallas, Tx
Price: $10-12 per student
Description: SPARK provides a fully immersive learning environment for grades 2-12, layering a myriad of creative disciplines to spark the imagination, expand the mind, and engage the body. Through an endless roster of workshops and pop-up activities, students can exercise their creativity and learn from creative experts, innovators, and artists.
Location: Dallas, Tx
Price: $3 per student for Title 1 campuses
Description: An immersive history museum in a park-like setting representing historical Dallas from 1840-1910, perfect for TEKS-aligned social studies and history focused field trips. All grade levels have the choice of five themed, self-guided “History Hunts”, each focusing on social studies and other thematic topics.
Location: Frisco, Tx
Price: $7 per student (Title 1 discounts available per request)
Description: Sci-Tech offers hands-on activities for grades K-8 in the “Maker Studio” where creativity and construction meet. Choose from topics including robots, physics, biology, architecture, and engineering or explore additional on-site classroom programs available from slime to animation.
Location: Ft. Worth, Tx
Price: $4.95 per student for Title 1 campuses
Description: Students are given the opportunity to interact with animals from all over the planet and learn behind the scenes operations at Seaquest. They’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of ecosystems and a new respect and awe for marine life.
Location: Garland, Tx
Price: $8 per student
Description: Family-Fun Escape Room provides STEM and TEKS-based, kid-friendly escape rooms with various themes including Jurassic World, Galaxy, Wizard Realm and Wonderland. Students will have the opportunity to practice team building, problem solving, critical thinking, logic, geography and math.
Location: Dallas, Tx
Price: $5 per student (additional discounts available upon request)
Description: With over 30 aircraft and space vehicles, grade 3-12 students can explore the history and progress of aviation at the Frontiers Flight Museum. Field trip tours are TEKS-aligned and emphasize the importance of STEM to the advancement of aviation and space flight.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (U.S. Dept of Treasury)
Location: Ft. Worth, Tx
Price: FREE
Description: Learn and gain firsthand experience where over half the national U.S. currency is produced and printed. Interactive exhibits, displays and theatre films are available through a self-guided tour.
University of Texas at Arlington Planetarium
Location: Dallas, Tx
Price: $5 per student + free campus tour
Description: Schedule a free guided tour of the university followed by a visit to UTA’s campus planetarium. Field trip agenda includes Texas Stargazing, a virtual roller coaster ride, live Q&A with expert scientists and an hour-long astronomy show of your choice in the dome theatre.