The Jurica Museum has a variety of educational programs, including field trips, a Discovery Box Loan Program, and Workshops for Elementary Science Teachers.
Teachers spend the week learning how to evaluate water quality.
A field trip to the museum generally consists of a tour of the museum, time spent in our learning circle examining various specimens ranging from an ostrich feather, deer mandible, to a red-tailed hawk, and a detective activity where the students work in pairs to find the answers to a set of questions. The detective activity is chosen by the teacher according to what the class is studying. is a free loan program featuring boxes which include information about animals and their habitats. Each box contains background information about a topic, visual aides, suggested classroom activities, student worksheets, and museum specimens for students to study. Discovery Boxes may be checked out for two weeks at no cost to the teacher. These workshops generally receive excellent evaluations.