Field Trips for Schools
Let us help you connect your class 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 and Portland 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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Wadsworth Masion 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 guided 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.
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.
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Mica Ledges Preserve Field Trip
This beautiful nature preserve in Durham is a great place for students to experience a lush forest, beautiful pond, geological formations and interesting vernal pools in the spring.
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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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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.
If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip, please contact us by clicking here.