Field Trips for Schools & Other Organizations
Let us help you connect your class/group with the natural world for hands-on science!
Everyone Outside helps teachers bring their classes outside and into nature. We offer several off-site field trips to locations in Middletown, Middlefield, Durham, Portland, and Killingworth and help organize transportation to these locations. These programs are outdoor, curriculum-based, grade level appropriate lessons at interesting locations.
Many of our programs are grant-funded and are offered at little to no cost.
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Palmer-Taylor Preserve Field Trip
Palmer Taylor Preserve is a beautiful 90 acre preserve in Portland owned by the Middlesex Land Trust. The preserve has trails through the upland woods, fun places to explore and a small pond. Many activities are possible including finding clues to learn about who lives in these woods, investigating and studying interesting local plants and examining the creatures found in the pond with hand-held view scopes.
If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
Chatfield Hollow Field Trip
This field trip is great for kindergarteners and first graders. Two or three classes rotate between three stations, where students can observe pond creatures using pond scopes (magnifiers), complete a scavenger hunt on the marsh board walk, and enjoy a nature walk with much to see and touch, including climbing up to visit a cave. We strongly encourage schools to have the classes stay for a picnic lunch and time for sand play.
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If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
Beaver Field Trip
Join us at the beautiful Mt. Pisgah nature preserve in Durham for a nature walk through active beaver sites, where students will get a chance to see the beautiful fall forest and beaver impacted area. On this hike students will learn all about beaver habitats, see beaver pelts and skulls, and explore beaver activity.
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If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
Wadsworth Mansion Field Trip
The Wadsworth Mansion field trip is a spring-time excursion to the former home of Col. Wadsworth and his wife Catherine Hubbard and includes a vernal pool ecology study, a nature hike through the forest and a short historical tour of the mansion. It is designed for 3rd or 4th graders, but can easily be adapted to other grades as desired.
If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
Indian Hill Field Trip
Indian Hill cemetery in Middletown is a prime location to get a great view of the fall foliage and learn about local geology, as well about past residents of this area including European settlers and the indigenous Wangunk people.
The top of the hill offers a great picnic spot where older classes (3-6th grade) may have lunch and learn about this place, which was a sacred place to the Wangunk tribe and offers an impressive view of the area.
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If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
Wadsworth Falls State Park
We offer a variety of field trips to this beautiful park depending on the desired focus (e.g. curriculum tie) and age of the students. Everyone Outside specializes in designing outdoor nature-focused adventures that teachers can link to almost any curriculum. Students can learn about local ecosystems and look at the creatures in the stream, take a hike and visit both the big and little falls, learn about watersheds, etc.
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If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
Painting with Plants
Everyone Outside will take students on a short plant walk in their school yard to discuss and identify useful plants, and then will guide students through making paint with natural materials, and crafting their own natural paintbrush. Students will then create a picture using paint from a variety of plants (e.g. pokeweed berries, garlic mustard and flowers) and soil.
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If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils
This program offers three stations where students can learn about rocks, minerals, and fossils, covering everything from fossil formation to local geology and the natural processes that have shaped our world. This program offers fun hands-on activities to drive lessons home, and lots of rocks to see and touch.
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If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.
