Welcome Teachers!
Burpee is offering In-Person and Virtual Field Trip Options
School's in session, and Burpee is ready for your Field Trip! With 4 NEW exhibits and 5 revamped exhibits, Burpee is excited to offer new and revamped tours, workshops, and explore options for your class. All field trips have been aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and the Social Studies C3 Framework, as well as extension activity aligning to the CCSS Reading for Information Standards.
Personalize it!
Invite Burpee to your school department, grade level, or staff meeting for personalized curriculum linking of Burpee resources and BONUS FREE museum passes to give out as rewards and treats to your students and families for letting us stop by. Sign up by emailing us at nicole.hayes@burpee.org!
Virtual Options
Many schools are turning to online field trip options due to distance and scheduling. Regardless of where you live, or how your school schedule works, Burpee is adventure and learning just moments away.
Don't Miss: School Visits!
Bring Burpee to your front door! From a classroom curriculum push in model of one, or multiple visits, to booths at a school fair or celebration, Burpee can hit the road. Outreaches are great ways to expose large groups of students to live animals, real dinosaur bones, amazing artifacts, and so much more hands on natural science!
Search by Student Grade Or Topic
Burpee offers more than 15 different field trips, over 10 different lab sessions, check-out labs, activities and more. You can narrow your search through the buttons below, browse options below, or contact us for more information and assistance.
More Info Contact: Nicole.Hayes@burpee.org
Beneath Your Feet Tour
Grade 2 & Under
Hold a rock...where did it come from? What's inside? From awesome minerals, to the giant forces like water or heat...learn how the Earth beneath your feet is formed and can change!
The Earth's Forces Tour
Grades 3 & Up
Walk through the forces that shape our Earth from weathering to compaction. What makes a rock? How does it become sand? What give a mineral its color? Interact with the geology of our Earth in a unique way!
Icy Illinois
Grades 2 & Under
Head back in time to the cold landscape of Ice Age Illinois! Meet giant mammals of our land: Mammoths, Giant Sloths, Giant Beavers, the humans that humans that hunted, and more!Touch teeth, examine fur, and learn how glaciers shaped the land we see today.
Ice Age Giants
Grades 2 & Up
Lab: Paleontologist Puzzle
Grades 3 and Up
Hold fossils in your hand, and learn to think critically when you explore the fossil time capsules! From dino bones, to ordovician shells, to prehistoric leaf impressions: see what you can identify and make a fossil to take home.
Dino-Mite! Tour
Grades 2 & Under
What is the difference between a bone and a fossil? What were dinosaurs, and what lives today? Lets explore Earth's history!
Fossil & Dino Tour
Grades 2 & Up
Come face to face with Burpee's most famous predator: Jane the T. rex!! Start in the shallow seas of Rockford over 400 million years ago, and travel to the GIANT ferns and insects of the Coal Forest, our new Jurassic exhibit, and even Paleo lab!
Beneath Your Feet Tour
Grade 2 & Under
Hold a rock...where did it come from? What's inside? From awesome minerals, to the giant forces like water or heat...learn how the Earth beneath your feet is formed and can change!
The Earth's Forces Tour
Grades 3 & Up
Walk through the forces that shape our Earth from weathering to compaction. What makes a rock? How does it become sand? What give a mineral its color? Interact with the geology of our Earth in a unique way!
Icy Illinois
Grades 2 & Under
Head back in time to the cold landscape of Ice Age Illinois! Meet giant mammals of our land: Mammoths, Giant Sloths, Giant Beavers, the humans that humans that hunted, and more!Touch teeth, examine fur, and learn how glaciers shaped the land we see today.
Ice Age Giants
Grades 2 & Up
Fees & Details
In-Person Tours:
- $5.00 per student/chaperone (Teachers are no charge)
- 60 min per tour
- $1.00 per student for extra explore time
- Lab/Workshops add-ons are extra charge
- Lunchroom can be reserved (ask for details)
Virtual Tours:
- $5.00 per student (Teachers are no charge)
- About 45 min per tour
- PLUS FREE UNLIMITED explore time after the tour (Same month, same group. Teachers are no charge)
Virtual visits can be scheduled for AM, PM or both AND include a Burpee guide Visits/explore time can happen in your classroom/home 24/7
Contact Us: For more important information about bringing your group to Burpee contact us at 815-965-3433 Or By Email: nicole.hayes@burpee.org
We are excited to offer interactive Virtual Reality experiences within the museum that allow the students to navigate through the halls much like a typical video game, with clickable “hot spots” for videos, documents, and more.
Available Topics:
Burpee offers revamped field trips that are aligned to NGSS science expectations and opens the door to great non-fiction reading opportunities to improve literacy, critical thinking, and evidence based reasoning.
Biology
Herpetology: Reptiles & Amphibians Tour
Local Wildlife: The Windows to Wilderness Tour
Paleontology
Fossils & Dinosaurs Tour
Dinomite! Tour
Anthropology & Social Studies
Native American Tour
Pint Sized Pow Wow Tour