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• Hours:
  10am-12pm on weekdays
• Cost:
  free (maximum of 30 students)
• Register:
  Please note, these "explorations" are on a first come, first serve basis. No registration required.

Guided Field Trip Explorations

Teaching Volunteers, recognizable by their red vests, are stationed in various halls to enhance your group's understanding of hall content. They staff interactive stations with artifacts, specimens, and other touchable objects related to the hall's themes, answer questions and provide resources at the Help Desks, and help groups find their destinations.

Combining their love of learning and scientific knowledge, Teaching Volunteers provide Guided Field Trip Explorations in the following exhibition halls:

• Cullman Hall of the Universe
• Hall of African Peoples
• Hall of Eastern Woodland Indians
• Hall of Mexico and Central America
• Fossil Halls
• Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth
• Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
• Spitzer Hall of Human Origins
• Animals at the Museum

All of the Guided Field Trip Explorations are designed to support the NYC K-8 Scope and Sequence for Science and Social Studies. These "explorations" are 45-minutes in length and start in one of the Museum's permanent halls listed above and connect to other Museum Halls while focused on one of the AAAS Atlas of Science Literacy strand maps and benchmarks.

Look for an available teaching volunteer, recognized by their red vests, in one of the eight halls listed above and ask for a Guided Field Trip Exploration. Please note, these "explorations" are on a first come, first serve basis. No registration required.

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