How do scientists work? How can we study things we can’t even see? Our Beauty and Charm field trip provides middle school students authentic experiences using scientific practices and cross-cutting concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards.
Field trip activities
- Engage with Fermilab science by exploring and analyzing Lederman Science Center exhibits.
- Tour the Wilson Hall atrium, exhibits, and art gallery.
- Participate in a Q&A session with laboratory staff.
- Enjoy a presentation on the uses and properties of liquid nitrogen.
Field trip details
- Teachers can bring students to Fermilab for free field trips!
- Field trips must be scheduled at least four weeks in advance.
- Group size: minimum of 10 students within the same grade level, maximum of 54
- If your group exceeds the capacity for a given field trip, you may plan multiple visits to accommodate everyone.
- Program length: 3.5 hours
- Chaperones: One adult chaperone (instructor or responsible adult) is required for every 10 students. Field trips are not permitted for groups that arrive without the minimum number of required chaperones.
- Teachers, aides, chaperones, and any participants 18 years of age and older MUST have a REAL ID-compliant document, such as a passport or enhanced driver’s license, to enter Fermilab. More information about accepted documents is linked here.
- This field trip requires adults to complete Business Visitor Access. Instructions will be shared with the group during booking.
- Groups may arrange to eat lunch in Fermilab’s Wilson Hall cafeteria.
Standards alignment
- MS-PS1-1: Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
- MS-PS1-3: Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.
- MS-PS2-2: Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.
- MS-PS2-5: Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
- MS-PS3-1: Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.
Field trip essentials
To fully prepare your students for a physical science or life science visit, you must participate in either a two-hour training session or a summer teacher workshop. These will give you all the information and resources to implement engaging preparatory activities in the classroom that introduce the essential concepts, content, and logistics of the field trip. Your participation will allow your students to learn more about the research and ecology of Fermilab and to better appreciate their on-site experience.
Click here to learn more about the required field trip essentials and to register for future sessions.
Details
Dates
Scheduled as requestedGrades
6-9 Request a field tripContact Information
Education office registrar at edreg@fnal.gov or 630-840-8258
Additional Details
Don’t miss the corresponding Teacher Workshop.