Self-Guided Field Trips
Self-Guided School Group Experiences
Lead your students on an exploration of our galleries and exhibitions. Teacher-guided groups must register in advance and attend a mandatory museum orientation at the start of the field trip, regardless of group size. A field trip coordinator will help you create a museum visit itinerary that best meets your learning objectives.
We offer self-guided field trips on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday starting at 10 a.m. Self-guided Field Trips are $3 per student and $3 per chaperone. Educators and staff may receive free admission with their staff ID badge. Title 1 school groups are $3 per student. Chaperones, educators, and staff receive free admission.
Field trips must be scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance of the requested program date. All Field trips require 1 chaperone per 5 elementary and middle school students and 1 chaperone for every 10 high school students.
Self-Guided Field Trip Resources
A few simple ideas for fostering students’ imagination and critical thinking as you guide them through the galleries:
- Look closely. Take time to observe the objects and notice together what is visually evident. Lots can be learned just from what you see.
- Encourage drawing. Provide materials for students to sketch objects or installations. Lead conversation about what was observed through drawing.
- Invite story-telling. Welcome students to discuss how objects and ideas might connect to their own lives and experiences.
- Inspire creativity. The museum is a great place to experiment with dynamic approaches to looking and learning. Observe objects from different angles, draw comics, enliven a science concept, write poems inspired by examining a contemporary artwork
Additional Resources
The Anchorage Museum offers a range of online resources and publications that you can use from home, selectable by grade level and topic. Explore resources for teaching and learning.
ART: DENALI/DENIAL
Examine the artwork Denali/Denial by Chris Jordan with 7th-grade students.
BELONGING
Explore the idea of belonging through artworks created by artists who have made Alaska their home with K12 students.
SCIENCE PASSPORT: HOME EDITION
Explore the world of science in and around your home. Use this passport to mark the scientific adventures you discover in your everyday spaces.
NORTHERN WATERS
Dive into the northern waters of Alaska with K12 students
CITIZEN SCIENCE: REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY
Learn about repeat photography and then be a citizen scientist by participating in the Anchorage Museum’s repeat photography project.
TWENTY QUESTIONS
Delve deeply by using this deck of twenty questions to ask any museum object with K-12 students.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
The Anchorage Museum is grateful to our generous sponsors for supporting our mission and making virtual field trips in the 2022-23 school year possible for students and educators across Alaska.
