Groups of more than eight students should divide into smaller groups. Plan to provide at least one adult for every eight students. Hold a pre-trip meeting with the other adults. Share management strategies and any trip guides or assignment sheets before the trip. Additional adults be assigned as facilitators who stay at each station to enhance learning with each group.
Teachers are good facilitators.
Museum docents may help if staffing is available. Establish a learning theme on one specific aspect of archaeology or Puebloan life for the field trip. Have children build on this concept as they move through the museum using their senses, reading displays, and asking questions. Beside the hands-on activities, other exhibits also appeal to the senses through the imagination. Even objects behind glass can be appreciated as rough or smooth, hard or soft, complicated or easy to make.