Trip Times: Tours begin as early as 9:00 a.m. Monday -- Friday
Chaperones: We suggest a ratio of one adult per five children.
Payment: Payment in full is due upon arrival.
Gift Shop: Our gift shop offers a variety of fun, educational items, and is available to you and your students upon request. Gift bags range from $2.00-$5.00, and preorder options are available.
Lunch: Discovery Center Museum's indoor lunchroom is available for $10.00, only by reservation, first-come first-served. You can also order individual pizzas, juice and water through us for a hassle-free meal. For more information, visit dining options.
Coupons & Passes: Discovery Center is happy to provide coupons and passes for student incentives, PTO events, and more. For more information or to make a special request, contact us.
To register for a field trip: Register by phone (815) 963-6769 from Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 5 pm. Please have the following information ready when you call:
All tours scheduled will receive a written confirmation of your reservation. Upon receipt of your confirmation, all teachers/contacts are asked to please review all information in the tour reservation packet.
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.
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!
Illinois State Goals: 1AB, 4A, 7A, 11AB, 12ABCDE, 16CE, 17B, 19ABC, 20ABC, 22ABC, 23ABC
Length: 2 hours (longer if additional programs, tours or lunchtime is added)
Cost: $4.00 per student or chaperone; One free teacher per class for public and private schools. Other groups are $4.00 per person.
A range of theme-based field trips that inspire focused learning.
Let our professional staff of educators teach your kids science fun!
Explore the night sky in our Space & Discovery Planetarium.
A 3-hour extravaganza of science, movement, and art at three museums!
(On-Site at Discovery Center)
(January 28 – May 6, 2012)
Cost: $3 per student or chaperone; $7 for Robots and Discovery Center
Based on the 20th Century Fox animated feature, Robots depicts a world
populated entirely by mechanical beings, including genius inventor Rodney
Copperbottom and his friends, the Rusties, who seek to make the world a better
place through innovation and determination.
The amazing characters from Robots will introduce visitors to the wonderful,
real world of robotics—an exciting and ever-expanding field of science. Robots
are becoming more and more a part of our lives. Here students will learn how that
is happening and how they might become part of the excitement.
The exhibition features more than 15 interactive areas offering scientific
adventures that allow students to enter the world of robotics and explore the
“reel and real” science of robotics.
Download the Robots Educator's Guide.
