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

Explore our exhibits as a group with educator-led activities or book a memory-making lab field trip aligned with National Next Generation Science Standards and Sunshine State Standards.

Museum Exploration for Groups

Explore More field trips are suitable for any group visit to the museum, such as school field trips, homeschool co-ops, camps, and more. Our facilitated experiences are available Thursday-Sunday, 10 am – 4 pm, and are great for all ages! These facilitated visits must be booked in advance to ensure access for your group and require a deposit to secure the reservation.

Summer field trip registration will open April 7th.

 

  • Guests will embark on 2 hours of facilitated museum immersion to interact with the Cade Museum exhibits through educator-guided activities and experiments.
  • *100 guest maximum – ​Large groups will be divided into smaller groups of up to 20 guests each, to ensure all guests have an optimal learning experience. (*60 guests maximum for field trips from January 10 – March 11)
  • $10 per child – deposit required

 

Lab Field Trips

We believe that every student has an innate capacity for exceptional creativity and can become a future inventor. Our lab field trips spark wonder and link school-based learning with the world around each child. Lab 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.” 

 

Lab field trips are sold out for the Spring and are not available in the Summer. Fall field trip registration will open August 4th.

Please review our lab field trip offerings below, then complete the field trip request form.

Request a Lab Field Trip

In-Museum Field Trips

Lab & Explore Popular

  • 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
  • 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 (3rd – 5th)
  • Optics: Exploring the Seen and Unseen (3rd – 5th)
  • Force, Motion, Inertia: A Crash Course in Physics (2nd – 5th)
  • ​​Shedding Light on Electrical Circuits (3rd – 5th)​
  • Code at the Cade: Indi the Robot (K – 2nd)

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

Lab & Learn

  • Students will engage in a 2-hour lab experience in the Creativity Lab. 
  • 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 – 8th)
  • 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 (3rd – 5th)
  • Optics: Exploring the Seen and Unseen (3rd – 5th)
  • Force, Motion, Inertia: A Crash Course in Physics (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.

Request a Lab Field Trip

Questions about Field Trips?

Contact us at fieldtrips@cademuseum.org or 352-371-8001, ext. 1108