Field Trips and Group Visits - Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention

Experience the Cade together with a field trip or group visit.

Explore the Cade Museum’s exhibits as a group through educator-led activities or book a memory-making field trip aligned with National Next Generation Science Standards and Sunshine State Standards.

Registration is now open for Fall 2023 field trips and will open on October 13, 2023 for Spring 2024 field trips.

Group Visits at the Cade

Facilitated Group Visits

Explore More facilitated experiences are available Thursday-Sunday, 10am-4pm, and are great for all ages! Explore More visits must be booked in advance to ensure access for your group and require a deposit to secure the reservation.

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Visit the Cade for your next school field trip!

Registration is now open for Fall 2023 field trips and will open on October 13, 2023 for Spring 2024 field trips. Learn more about our field trip offerings below.

We believe that every student has an innate capacity for exceptional creativity and can become a future inventor. Our field trips spark wonder and link school-based learning with the world around each child. Field trips are designed to complement your classroom curriculum, and diverse themes enable you to engage your students with the Cade again and again for continually layered educational experiences.

Students will be inspired to think like inventors as they apply core science concepts:

Inventivity Framework – Exploring core content that correlates with CPALMS and NGSS Standards.
Invention – Learning through the lens of invention and innovation, while exploring the lives of visionaries whose inventions have changed our world and continue to improve it.
Exploration – Sparking creativity through hands-on projects and lasting “Make & Takes.”

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In-Museum Field Trips

Lab & Explore Popular

1-hour lab experience and 1-hour facilitated museum immersion
Students will engage in a 1-hour lab experience in the Creativity Lab and embark on 1 hour of facilitated museum immersion to interact with the Cade Museum exhibits through educator-guided activities and experiments.
Thursday and Friday *limited dates available for Fall 2023*
80 students maximum (14 minimum)
$15 per student – deposit required

Choose from any of the 1-hour lab and explore topics below:

The Hidden World of Insects (K – 1st)
Magnificent Matter (2nd – 5th)
Optics: Exploring the Seen and Unseen (3rd – 5th)
Force, Motion, Inertia: A Crash Course in Physics (2nd – 5th)
Earth Science: Spheres of Influence (2nd – 5th)
Shedding Light on Electrical Circuits (3rd – 5th)
Code at the Cade: Indi the Robot (K – 2nd)
The Small Stuff: Elements, Atoms, and Molecules (6th – 8th)

These topics are designed to correlate with CPALMS and NGSS standards for each grade level.

Explore More

2-hour facilitated museum immersion
Students will embark on 2 hours of facilitated museum immersion to interact with the Cade Museum exhibits through educator-guided activities and experiments.
Thursday and Friday *limited dates available for Fall 2023*
80 students maximum – Large groups will be divided into smaller groups of up to 20 students each, to ensure all students have an optimal learning experience.
$10 per student – deposit required

Lab & Learn

Students will engage in a 2-hour lab experience in the Creativity Lab.

2 hour lab experience
Monday and Tuesday (Museum is not open for exploration for Lab & Learn field trips)
40 students maximum (14 minimum)
$15 per student – deposit required

Choose from any of the 2-hour Lab & Learn topics below:

Reinventing Immunity: Our Body’s Defense (K – 8th)
Discovering DNA (3rd – 5th)
Code at the Cade: Dash the Robot (3rd – 5th)
The Hidden World of Insects (K – 1st)
Shedding Light on Electrical Circuits (3rd – 5th)
Magnificent Matter (2nd – 5th)
Optics: Exploring the Seen and Unseen (3rd – 5th)
Force, Motion, Inertia: A Crash Course in Physics (2nd – 5th)
Earth Science: Spheres of Influence (2nd – 5th)

These topics are designed to correlate with CPALMS and NGSS standards for each grade level. Our 2-hour sessions allow for a deeper dive into the chosen topic.

Cade in the Classroom

The Cade Museum can now bring its educational programming right into your classroom. Our Cade educators can deliver exciting hands-on lessons and activities in your school or classroom.

1-hour lab experience brought right into your classroom (within a 50 mile radius)

Availability varies
40 students maximum per session
$10 per student + $125 setup/travel fee per day/per school – deposit required

Choose from any of the following Cade In the Classroom topics:

Matter
Optics: Looking at Light
Colors, Code, and OZOBOTS!
Mothers of Invention: Necessity, Serendipity, and Iteration
Mothers of Invention: Imagination, Curiosity, and Serendipity