Red Butte Garden is proud to offer field trips for teachers and students at K-12 publicly funded schools (public and charter) at no cost thanks to funding from the Utah State Legislature through the iSEE program!
To schedule a group visit for your daycare, summer camp, private school, after-school, or any other group not from a K-12 publicly funded school, please use this form.
AVAILABILITY
- Field Trips for the 2023-2024 school year will be open for request on August 1st at 10am.
- If you'd like to be added to our newsletter for School Programs offerings and Field Trip openings for the 2023-2024 school year, please email SP@Lists.Utah.Edu
Questions? Contact us at: fieldclasses@redbutte.utah.edu
ADMISSION
Utah publicly-funded, K-12 schools are not charged admission for their Field Class field trips (confirmed reservation is required).
REQUESTING & BOOKING A FIELD TRIP
Steps to visit Red Butte Garden on a field trip:
- Your options for field trips include Self-Guided Field Trips, Red Butte Garden Field Class Field Trip, and Red Butte Garden and Natural History Museum of Utah Field Trip.
- Locate the option you prefer below and click on the tan field trip tab(s) to learn more about your options.
- Links to request a field trip are at the bottom of the tan field trip tab.
- Please note that this year's field trip request may look slightly different to what you have experienced in previous years.
- This year the list of available dates are located in the request form, not within a preview calendar. - It can take up to two weeks for processing field trip request forms. Thank you for your patience. We respond to submissions as soon as we can.
UPDATES:
At this time RBG/NHMU field trips and RBG Field Class field trips are booked to capacity for the 2023-2024 school year.
To be alerted when requests for field trips open up, sign up for Red Butte Garden's School Programs listserv at SP@Lists.Utah.Edu
If you'd like to be notified if any dates become available or if you have questions, contact us at: fieldclasses@redbutte.utah.edu
Field Trip Options:
Please read the descriptions and options before requesting your specific field trip.
- Bring your K-12th grade students to the Garden for your own self-guided exploration!
- These field trips are entirely self-guided where students are led by school chaperones and school teachers.
- Teachers can choose a self-led investigation for their field trip. Investigations include access to a Virtual Garden tour filled with phenomenon related to your chosen investigation. They also include a link to a printable field journal if you'd like your students to dive deeper into their investigation and record findings during their time at the Garden.
Click HERE to learn about the garden investigations you can choose from.
Field Trip reservations: 1.5 hours -2 hours *depending on grade level.
Dates are no longer available for the 2023-2024 school year.
These field trips are self-guided where K-6th grade students are led by school chaperones and school teachers, with Garden Educators stationed throughout the Garden.
- Teachers can choose an investigation for the field trip. The investigation begins in the classroom with a Virtual Garden tour filled with phenomenon. At the Garden, students dive deeper into their investigation and record findings in their own field journals.
- Garden Educators will be stationed throughout the Garden with activities and hands-on experiences to enhance your investigation. (Please note this is subject to change).
- Materials are supplied by Red Butte Garden at the beginning of the Field Class field trip.
Click HERE. to learn about the investigations you can choose from.
Field Classes last 1.5 to 2 hours depending on grade level.
To be alerted when requests for field trips open up, sign up for Red Butte Garden's School Programs listserv at SP@Lists.Utah.Edu
Dates are no longer available for the 2023-2024 school year.
We partner with the Natural History Museum of Utah for full day field trips. To learn more about the partnership field trip experience, please visit HERE.
- These field trips are self-guided where K-6th grade students are led by school chaperones and school teachers, with Garden Educators stationed throughout the Garden.
- Teachers can choose an investigation for the field trip. The investigation begins in the classroom with a Virtual Garden tour filled with phenomenon. At the Garden, students dive deeper into their investigation and record findings in their own field journals.
- Garden Educators will be stationed throughout the Garden with activities and hands-on experiences to enhance your investigation. (Please note this is subject to change).
- Materials are supplied by Red Butte Garden at the beginning of the Field Class field trip.
Click HERE. to learn about the investigations you can choose from.
Field Trip reservations: Typically ~1.5 hours- 2 hours at each facility *depending on grade level. It is a full day field trip with lunch reservations at NHMU.
RBG/NHMU partner field trip dates have been booked for the entire school year. To be alerted when requests for field trips open up, sign up for Red Butte Garden's School Programs listserv at SP@Lists.Utah.Edu
Focused Learning Day
For K-12th grade students. This field trip day is geared towards being accessible to neurodiverse students and students with disabilities.
On Focused Learning Days, Red Butte Garden and the Natural History Museum of Utah have special accommodations and volunteer-led activities specific to the group reserved. Feedback from this day will help RBG and NHMU improve programming for all students.
If you have any questions or interest in Focused Learning Day, please email fieldclasses@redbutte.utah.edu or fieldtrips@nhmu.utah.edu
Private Schools and Other (school related) Field Trip Options:
To schedule a group visit for your daycare, summer camp, private school, after school, or any other group not from a K-12 publicly funded school, please use this form.