Field Trips to the Academy

Field Trips: Discovery Lessons

Discovery Lesson

Participate in an in-depth investigation of the natural sciences. Through these interactive classroom experiences, your students will develop important scientific skills, from making observations to designing experiments and interpreting data.

All lessons have been developed to meet Educational Standards, including Pennsylvania State Standards, New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards, and Philadelphia Core Curriculum Grade Levels. (Our lessons have been updated for the new Pennsylvania and New Jersey state standards.)

We offer a variety of Discovery Lessons for grades Pre-K–2, 3–6, 7–9, and 10-12.

The Academy of Natural Sciences is an approved entity for the School District of Philadelphia. The paperwork is on file with the School District of Philadelphia Risk Management Office.

Programs using live animals are denoted by a paw print graphic.

Grades Pre-K–2

Discovery Lesson Bugs to Butterflies

35 minutes
30 students maximum
$75 per lesson

  1. Animal Habitats live animals used
  2. Animal Senses live animals used
  3. Bugs to Butterflies live animals used
  4. Fur, Feathers, and Scales live animals used
  5. Meet the Dinosaurs
  6. Soil—It’s Alive! live animals used

Grades 3–6

Discovery Lesson with Owl

35 minutes
35 students maximum
$75 per lesson

  1. Ancient Adaptations
  2. Butterflies: From Delicate to Dazzling
  3. Extreme Environments live animals used
  4. Geology Really Rocks
  5. Plants and Pigments
  6. Science Detectives live animals used

Grades 7–9

Discovery Lesson Endangered Species

90 minutes
35 students maximum
$120 per lesson

  1. Design Your Own Experiment live animals used
  2. Keys, Trees and Clades

Grades 10–12

Discovery Lesson for Grades 10-12

90 minutes
35 students maximum
$120 per lesson

  1. Seeing Eye to Eye live animals used

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