Add More Discovery to your Museum Field Trip!
During your Discovery Gateway Field Trip, you can choose to participate in a facilitated lesson and activity in our private theater. These workshops utilize interactive play and discussion to introduce students to STEAM concepts that they can apply in the museum.
Please continue reading to find descriptions of each of our available workshops. If you have any questions regarding our workshops, feel free to contact our field trips manager, Addison, at 801-456-5437 x 117 or email her at adover@discoverygateway.org
Capacity: 15-100 students
Time: 10 – 25 minutes (included in your 2 hour visit)
Workshops for Pre-K Students and younger:
Workshops are not mandatory for field trip groups with Pre-K level or younger students.
Story Time:
Students will hear a children’s story about Dinosaurs, read in our Paleo exhibit. Learn how dinosaurs go to school, ride the bus and eat lunch while gazing at our amazing fossil displays.
Workshops for Studnets K-2nd:
Lights, Camera, Adaptations:
Students will set the stage of different habitats and the animals who lived there. Students will see the parallel between human adaptations and animals in some of the harshest environments our planet has ever faced. We will discuss habitats, climate, specialized skills and body parts that animals and humans have developed to survive their environments. Great hands on workshop for older or younger students (we offer a version of the workshop for younger and older students).
Exer-Cycles:
Cycles! Cycles! Cycles! This workshop is great for active younger students who are interested in the world and how it works. Students will recognize cycles all around them and how they repeat to create mountains, plants, water and life. Students will get moving as they simulate being water droplets in the water cycle, seeds in the plant cycle and much more!
Simple Machines Mission:
Students will learn about many simple machines including: planes, pulleys, levers, wedges, and screws. Students will receive a Scavenger Hunt Booklet that they will use to locate the simple machines in the museum. At the end of the field trip, students will present the examples they found in the museum.
Beehive Blitz:
At Discovery Gateway, we love bees! You’ll find them all over our museum. In this workshop, students will have an in-depth look at bees, our state insect, and learn just how they use their head, thorax and abdomen. Students will have the chance to communicate like bees and guide the field trips educator to the flowers with the most pollen and warn them of any danger!
Workshops for Studnets 3rd-5th:
Paleo-Explorers:
Learn about our beloved Utahraptor in this introductory paleontological workshop. Students will learn the basics of dino anatomy and how it compares to our own, as well as the basics behind fossil excavation. Students will put themselves into the habitat that our Utahraptor would have lived in and get ready for hands-on research and exploration in the museum. Students will return to the workshop at the end of the day to report their findings within our iDig Dinos exhibit.
Light, Camera, Adaptations:
Students will set the stage of different habitats and the animals who lived there. Students will see the parallel between human adaptations and animals in some of the harshest environments our planet has ever faced. We will discuss habitats, climate, specialized skills and body parts that animals and humans have developed to survive their environments. Great hands on workshop for older or younger students (we offer a version of the workshop for younger and older students).
Make Your Reservation
To make a reservation with our Field Trip Coordinator, please fill out the form here.
