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Real bones. Real fossils. Real fun!

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TriceratopsAt the Science Museum, we're committed to making your field trip a seamless and rich experience, with programs designed to support science standards, an easy, one-stop booking process and expanded bus subsidy programs and discounts to help make your visit both affordable and rewarding.

Based on content and skills, The Real Dino Experience is best suited for students in grades K-3.


When you book The Real Dino Experience,
your students will:

1

Explore like Dinosaur Dentists in a museum classroom.
An unforgettable, hands-on 50-minute Learning Lab experience, where students compare and sort teeth from modern-day animals and prehistoric animals. Students will observe and describe the shape and size of the teeth, then develop their own ideas about what food real dinosaurs ate.
2

See Fossil Feud in the Auditorium.
Free with your field trip, an interactive Science Live theater program where students are contestants on the game show Fossil Feud! Where your students will strut their prehistoric knowledge by answering questions like "What is a fossil," "Are all ancient reptiles considered dinosaurs," and "How are dinosaurs like birds?"
3

Visit the museum's Dinosaurs & Fossils Gallery.
The Science Museum has one of the largest paleontology collections in the world, where students will use their senses to explore a prehistoric forest, measure themselves against the length of a real Triceratops skeleton, and discover fossils ranging from mighty to microscopic, and more through self-directed, exhibit hall learning experiences. Print out the Dinosaurs and Fossils Explorations Guide for pre- and post-visit activities, and questions and activities for your students to do while exploring the gallery.
Clean Water Land & Legacy AmendmentThis activity is funded, in part, through the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. Learn More