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School Field Classes: Field Trips for K-12th grade publicly funded school students

Red Butte Garden is proud to offer Field Classes for teachers and students at K-12 publicly funded schools (public and charter) thanks to funding from the Utah State Legislature through the iSEE program!

To schedule a group visit for your daycare, summer camp, private school, after-school, or any other group not from a K-12 publicly funded school, please email GroupSales@redbutte.utah.edu

AVAILABILITY

  • ALL FIELD TRIPS (Garden Educator and Self-Guided) ARE BOOKED FOR SPRING 2023.
  • Field Trip requests typically open on the first Monday in August for the full school year. Please check back in July for more information.
  • If you'd like to be added to our newsletter for School Programs offerings and Field Trip openings for the 2023-2024 school year, please email SP@Lists.Utah.Edu

Questions? Contact us at: fieldclasses@redbutte.utah.edu

ADMISSION

Utah publicly-funded, K-12 schools are not charged admission for their Field Class field trips (confirmed reservation is required).

SCHEDULING

Steps to visit Red Butte Garden on a Field Class field trip:

  1. Your options for field trips include Garden Educator Field Trips (K-6th) or Self-Guided Field Trips (K-12th)
  2. Locate the option you prefer below and click on the tan field trip tab(s) to learn more about your options.
  3. Request a field trip by clicking the link (at the bottom of the tab). *Links are not available for the field trips that are full to capacity.
  4. It can take up to two weeks for processing field trip request forms. Thank you for your patience. We respond to submissions as soon as we can.

Garden Educator Field Trip Options:

The Field Class (field trip) format is newly revised to enhance SEEd standards for the 22-23 school year!

Please read the descriptions and options before requesting your specific field trip.

Please note that these field trips are full for 22-23 school year.

K-6 student scientists explore the Garden on a SEEd-based investigation of your choice! The investigation begins in the classroom with a Virtual Garden tour filled with phenomenon. At the Garden, students dive deeper into their investigation and record findings in their own field journals. (Materials are supplied by Red Butte Garden at the beginning of the Field Class.)

  • All Field Classes are entirely school teacher and chaperone-led.
  • Garden Educators will be stationed throughout the Garden with activities and hands-on experiences to enhance your investigation. (Please note this is subject to change).
  • To visit the Garden without an investigation or materials as described above, please select "Self-Guided" in your request form.

Click HERE. to learn about the investigations you can choose from.

Field Classes last 1.5 to 2 hours depending on grade level.

Red Butte Garden only field trips are currently full to capacity for fall 2022. There is still availability for spring 2023 field trips!

2022-2023 Red Butte Garden K-6th Field Trips are fully reserved.

Please note that these field trips are full for 22-23 school year.

Currently for K-6th grade students. We partner with the Natural History Museum of Utah for full day field trips. To learn more about the partnership field trip experience, please visit HERE.

For the Red Butte Garden portion of the field trip: K-6 student scientists explore the Garden on a SEEd-based investigation of your choice! Students can begin the investigation in the classroom with a Virtual Garden tour filled with phenomenon. At the Garden, students dive deeper into their investigation and record findings in their own field journals. (Materials are supplied by Red Butte Garden at the beginning of the Field Class.)

  • All Field Classes are entirely school chaperone-led.
  • Garden Educators will be stationed throughout the Garden with activities and hands-on experiences to enhance your investigation. (Please note this is subject to change).

Click HERE. to learn about the investigations you can choose from.

Field Trip reservations: Typically ~1.5 hours- 2 hours at each facility *depending on grade level. It is a full day field trip with lunch reservations at NHMU.

2022-2023 Red Butte Garden and Natural History Museum Fall and Spring Field Trips are fully reserved.

For K-12th grade students. This field trip day is geared towards being accessible to neurodiverse students and students with disabilities.

On Focused Learning Days, Red Butte Garden and the Natural History Museum of Utah have special accommodations and volunteer-led activities specific to the group reserved. Feedback from this day will help RBG and NHMU improve programming for all students.

If you have any questions or interest in Focused Learning Day, please email fieldclasses@redbutte.utah.edu or fieldtrips@nhmu.utah.edu

For K-12th grade students we are happy to offer an annual Virtual School Day at Red Butte Garden. This scheduled day is filled with garden exploration and educator and volunteer-led activities.

If you have questions or interest in attending Virtual School Day, please email fieldclasses@redbutte.utah.edu

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Self Guided Field Trip Options:

Please note that these field trips are full for 22-23 school year.

Bring your K-12th grade students to the Garden for your own self-guided exploration or choose one of our self-led garden investigations! All field trips are school teacher and chaperone-led.

This is a great opportunity to experience your classrooms specific curriculum in our maintained gardens or natural area!

These field trips do not include Red Butte Garden Educators or activities. They are entirely teacher and school chaperone-led. Field Trip reservations are typically 2 hours.

For K-6th Grade self-led garden investigation field trips:

  • Teachers can choose an investigation for their field trip.  Investigations include access to a Virtual Garden tour filled with phenomenon related to your chosen investigation and a printable field journal that students can use to dive deeper into their investigation and record findings during their time at the Garden.

Click HERE to learn about the garden investigations you can choose from. 

If you choose to visit the Garden without a garden investigation focus, please select "Self-Guided" when you request your K-12th grade field trip.

Field Trip reservations: 1.5 hours -2 hours *depending on grade level.

2022-2023 Red Butte Garden Spring Field Trips are fully reserved.

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Private Schools, Independent Schools, and Other (school related) Field Trip Options:

To schedule a group visit for your daycare, summer camp, private school, after school, or any other group not from a K-12 publicly funded school, please email GroupSales@RedButte.utah.edu