Create an Educational Field Trip to The Field Museum Ideas for preparing yourself before the field trip Visit the Museum before your trip with colleagues and chaperones. Have them bring in their collections and talk about how they add to, sort, take care of and display their collections. Let students describe in detail ordinary objects, like a paper clip, paintbrush, clothespin, or comb to their classmates. Let students enact the next moment after the one depicted in the exhibition. Have students teach each other.
Pictures Create worksheets with partial drawings of objects found in the exhibitions.
Let students complete the drawings based on their observations. Peepholes Cut different sized round holes in construction paper and have students view a part of the exhibition through the peepholes. Ask them to describe what they see, what they notice now that they missed before, and how their perspective changes with each new view. Visit several exhibitions and have students notate or sketch something that connects to that theme. Or make a list of themes, like those above, and have students find an example of each.