Discovery Center is proud to offer a wide variety of field trip styles and formats to suit your classes’ interests, learning level, and needs. Talk to any child who’s grown up in the Rockford area, and he or she will most likely have a fond memory of a field trip at our museum.
Basic Museum Tour
Explore over 200 hands-on permanent exhibits on two floors of interactive fun! Interactive exhibits cover topics on electricity and magnetism, weather, color and light, air and flight, mathematics, simple machines, and the human body. Use Discovery Center Museum to teach a lesson your students won’t forget!
Length: 2 hours (longer if additional programs, tours or lunchtime is added)
Cost: $3.50 per student or chaperone; One free teacher per class
Focused Field Trips
A range of theme-based field trips that inspire focused learning.
Dynamite Demonstrations
Let our professional staff of educators teach your kids science fun!
Planetarium Field Trips
Explore the night sky in our Space & Discovery Planetarium.
Terrific Tuesdays
A 3-hour extravaganza of science, movement, and art at three museums!
Safety City
Bring your little ones to Discovery Center’s mini town in our Tot Spot.
Prisms separate the colors that make white light. Glass prisms bend light, spread it out, and reflect it, the same way water drops do when they make rainbows. Learn more about prisms in our Color and Light exhibit.
