 4th Grade Field Trips
Visit the Arboretum during the Fall, Winter, or Spring and treat your students to a hands-on, real plants, learning experience!
Reservations will open May 23 for 2017-2018 school year!
$6 per student*
*A processing fee of $7.50 will be applied to each order
NOTE: Final adjustment count for # of students and all field trip fees are due at least 30 days in advance. No scholarship orders will be processed at this time. An email will be sent mid-August with qualifications and instructions.
Ready to Register?
NEW! Online registration begins May 23, 2017!
STEP 1: Sign in or create a login from this page and create your customer profile.
STEP 2: Choose a program from the categories below and click the "Register Online" button to place it in your shopping basket
STEP 3: When you have all selections in your basket (making sure number of students is correct), process your order as "purchase order" and you will receive a confirmation/invoice via email.
Need Help?
Don't see what you are looking for, or the times don't work for your school? For assistance, please fill out the Field Trip Reservation Request Form , and we will contact you with availability and options. Or, call the Education office: 612-301-1210.
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Photo: Jim Hudgins/US Fish and Wildlife Service
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NEW! Monarchs & Milkweed
Grades 1-5
2017-2018 dates:
September 12 - 22,2017
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Monarch butterflies make amazing migrations across North America every year, flying thousands of miles north in the spring and south in the fall. Learn how scientists track their travels, and participate in citizen science by tagging a monarch with your class. Zoom in on the monarch's special relationship with milkweed plants, and the unique structures of milkweed flowers. Find and observe monarchs in action in the pollinator garden, fueling up for their journey south.
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Apple Harvest
Grades 1-6
2017 - 2018 dates:
September 15 - October 20
9:30am - 10:45am
11:15am - 12:30pm
Limit 3 classes per time slot
The apples are rolling in and there are bushels of learning to harvest behind the scenes in an orchard. Learn how orchard managers use their math and science skills each day to bring in their crop. Taste, try on, search, smell, sip and wander your way through a visit packed with hands-on real world discoveries.
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Minnesota's Harvest: Good Eating From and For the Earth Scholarship Fund generously supported by an endowment created by long-term Arboretum supporters Judy and Herb Goldenberg.
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Minnesota Harvest: Healthy Eating from and for the Earth
Grades 3-6
2017 -2018 dates: November 2 - November 17
Limit 3 classes per time slot
9:30-11:30
12:30-2:30
Celebrate the harvest season by exploring local food and the local cultures, traditions, and scientific advances that contribute to the Minnesota Harvest. Students will practice food label and map reading skills to determine where grocery foods come from and how far they have travelled to get to our plates. A tasting tour of local foods follows. Popcorn and popped wild rice highlights native local food traditions with gathering and cultivating local foods. A taste of home made apple sauce emphasises the recent scientific advances that have allowed apple trees to be grown in Minnesota. And for dessert, students will make and taste sweet potato pie, learn about the scientific work of George Washington Carver, and dig sweet potatoes from the children's Garden. Along the way students will learn about the nutritional benefits of the local foods they taste and will take home recipes to share with their families.
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Plant-Works, Water-Works
Grades 2-5
2017 - 2018 dates: November 29 - January 26
Limit 3 classes per time slot; Extended day options (additional 1/2 hour for lunch) available for 4-5 classes for $10/class
9:30-11:30
12:30-2:30
$6/student
Step into the shoes of a plant propagator to understand how plants take up, use, and release water. Examine root hairs, stem pipelines, leaf veins, and leaf stomata up close with microscopes in the Prove-It Lab. Study and draw the leaf vein and stem patterns of plants in the Please Touch Greenhouse and record the amount of water vapor in and outside of the greenhouse. Each student will have the opportunity to apply their new Plant-work, Water-work knowledge to their own propagation project. And each class will receive a propagation experiment to take back and complete in their classrooms at school.
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photo: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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NEW! Pollinators, Plants, and People: Partnerships for Life
Grades 3-5
2017 -2018 dates: February 8 - April 5
9:30-11:00
1:00-2:30
Find out how plants and pollinators are specially designed for one another. Zoom in to discover how pollinator bodies are adapted to work with flowers, and how this unique partnership benefits both plants and pollinators. Explore gifts from the hive and find out how people are harnessing the power of pollinator-plant partnerships. Tour the exhibit hall to learn more about the critical relationships Minnesota pollinators have to Minnesota plants, and find out what role people play in making sure these relationships remain productive and healthy. Plant a pollinator friendly plant to take home!
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Plants & Their Habitats
Grades 3-6
2017 - 2018 dates: January 16 - April 20
Limit 3 classes per time slot; Extended day options (additional 1/2 hour for lunch) available for 4-5 classes for $10/class
9:30-11:30
12:30-2:30
Imagine stepping into the shoes of plant researchers whose job is to discover and characterize plants from different habitats around the world. Student scientists will first learn about plant adaptations for survival in three very different habitats: Desert, Tropical Rainforest, and Bog. After learning about the basic plant adaptations, student scientists will apply their knowledge in the "Mixed up Plant Lab" where they identify specific plant adaptations to determine what habitat each plant came from. In the greenhouse student scientists will explore more living plant examples from each of these habitats and have the opportunity to make their own plant discovery. Each student will make and plant a terrarium with rainforest plants to take home.
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Grade 3: Plant Habitat Riddles |
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Maple Syrup Time
Grades 1-6
2017 - 2018 dates:
March 5 - March 30
Limit 3 classes per time slot, option to extend the day with an additional winter trip
9:30am - 10:45am
11:15am - 12:30pm
1:15pm - 2:30pm
$6/student
Hike into the woods to tap a maple tree. Visit the sugarhouse where sap is cooked to syrup. Learn about maple sugaring traditions of different cultures. Say goodbye to winter and sample the sweet flavor of photosynthesis!
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Japanese Garden
Grades 1-6
2017 - 2018 dates:
May 9 - June 1
9:30am -10:45am
11:15am -12:30pm
1:15pm - 2:30pm
$6/student
A Japanese garden reflects Japanese culture, values, and the physical geography of the place. Discover the tradition, meaning, and symbolism present in the Arboretum's Seisui-Tei (The Garden of Pure Water). Compare the Japanese Garden with Western style gardens. Students will make and take their own, mini Japanese garden.
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Discover Spring Peeper Meadow
Grades 2-6
2018 dates: May 9 - May 24
Limit 3 classes per time slot
9:30-11:30
12:30-2:30
$6/student
Come tour Spring Peeper Meadow and take part in the Arboretum's Grand Scientific Experiment. In 1997, the Arboretum began a wetland restoration project with the purchase of a corn field. 20 years later the corn field has been restored to a sedge meadow wetland. While on this trip you will explore diversity of life of the plant community, invertebrates living in the water, and the birds and wildlife of the meadow. A healthy wetland is a wetland that can support a diversity of life. Come check out the health of Spring Peeper Meadow with us this spring.
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Woods in Bloom
Grades 3-6
2017-2018 dates: May 3 - June 1
Limit 2 classes per time slot
9:30-10:45
11:15-12:30
1:15-2:30
Pollination is the central concept of this field trip and the woods in spring is a perfect place to explore pollination in action. Students will learn about different strategies plants use to attract pollinators for successful pollination. In the lab, students will dissect fresh flowers to learn about flower parts and functions. In the woods, student scientists will explore the importance of light for plant growth in the spring.
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Amazing Bees!
One-hour Summer Enrichment Experience
Suggested Ages: 6-10
2017 - 2018 dates:
June 14, 2017 - August 10, 2017
Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays
9:30 am - 10:30 am
11:00 am - noon
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Explore the world of the honey bees, bumble bees, leaf-cutter bees, sweat bees, mason bees, and more, and find out how they achieve their status as champion pollen movers. Without their work, our grocery stores and gardens would look sadly different. Search for bee diversity in the Bee Center's garden for pollinators, explore the pollinator exhibits, and get a taste of the honey bees' sweet treasure from the hive!
Limit 40 students, Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center
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Marvelous Minnesota Trees
One-hour Summer Enrichment Experience
Suggested Ages: 6-10
Tuesdays or Thursdays
10:00am - 11:00am
12:00pm - 1:00pm
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Visit the Arboretum this summer and spend some time getting to know the trees in your Minnesota neighborhood! Observe and understand the life cycle of a tree, then practice using your science skills while exploring and sorting leaves in order to identify some of our native trees. Journey to visit a few of the most popular Minnesota trees on Arboretum grounds. Plant your own Minnesota tree seeds to take and grow at home!
Limit 40, Sensory Garden Program Shelter
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to deliver a field trip to your classroom?
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Watch a preview of our
"Plant-Works, Water-Works" Field Trip! |
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ADD-ON A
LUNCH EXPERIENCE! |
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SPRING/FALL
May - October
Picnic at Outdoor Picnic Shelters
(no reservations; First come, first served)
FREE!
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FALL/WINTER
November - April
Reserve an Indoor Lunch Room
$10/class
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WINTER
January - April
NEW! Picnic with the Pollinators Add-On
Grades K-5
$3/student
1 hour added on to a Field Trip
Limit 3 classes/time slot
Bring your bag lunches and add this 1-hour extension onto any field trip! A great way to check out all the features of the new Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center, enjoy 30 minutes for lunch in the new Learning Lab or Pollinator Shelter followed by an exclusive guided experience that uncovers the vital roles plants and pollinators play in food production. Finally, end your picnic by taking part in the sweetest scientific taste test ever: seasonal honey! Note: The Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center is located on the Arboretum grounds, but does require bus transportation to and from other Arboretum areas.
MN State Science Standards
0.4.1.1.1Observe and compare plants and animals
0.4.2.1.1 Observe a natural system
1.4.2.1.2 Habitat
2.4.3.1.1 Life cycles
3.4.1.1.2 Living things are diverse
5.4.1.1.1 Plant and animal structures and functions
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HELPFUL INFORMATION
Minimum/Maximum Students: Minimum 12 students/session. Maximum is 3 classes/96 students per session for all programs with the exception of Spring field trips taking place at the Sensory Garden, which are maximum 2 classes/64 students per session.
Chaperones: Chaperones are free up to 1 adult:5 students; our minimum requirement is 1 adult:10 students. Adults beyond 1:5 pay $15 admission. Note: these numbers do include the teachers attending, though do not include paras or nurses accompanying special needs students.
Scholarships: Scholarships are available beginning mid-August and given on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Arboretum is committed to making its educational opportunities accessible for all school audiences. With the generous support of the foundations and donors, we are pleased to offer a menu of scholarship opportunities for our schools. For additional information on scholarships and how to apply, please click here .
Cancellation Policies: Programs are held rain or shine. In extreme weather conditions, we reserve the right to cancel programs for your safety. You will not be charged a cancellation fee under these circumstances. No refunds if you cancel less than 30 days in advance. Final adjustment count for # of students and all field trip fees are due at least 30 days in advance.
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