Field Trips

Are you looking for a highly interactive, hands-on field trip experience that will foster creativity, risk taking and exploration in your students? Discover the exciting world of interactive arts and technology with your school group!

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We offer the following exciting field trip options for your class:

 

Creative Triple Play

In the Creative Triple Play, students will engage with three of our most popular exhibit spaces – Animation, Movie and Design Studios. Guided by our professional Educators Education Interns, your students will be encouraged to explore their creative process while learning stop motion animation skills, producing a music video and taking on media-based challenges in Photoshop and Scratch. When signing up, you will be provided with a menu of several activity options for each space. Grades: 3-12

Features:

  • The chance to interact with 3 unique media spaces
  • Discussions and warm-up activities that teach brainstorming, collaboration, and creativity
  • Menu of options lets you customize the content
  • More open-ended
  • Design-based learning challenges and creative prompts
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Classic Field Trips

If you’re looking for a more in-depth experience, the Classics offer a 2-hour facilitated session one of the following studios:

These Field Trips provide a clear, complete experience from beginning to end: from planning the project, through a collaborative implementation of the plan using state-of-the-art technology tools, to a wrap-up discussion with the group. For teachers who want to integrate classroom curriculum with their project, these field trips are the best option. Grades: 2-12

Features:

  • Great way to connect curriculum content to an interactive project.
  • More in-depth exploration of a single space/media
  • Students will develop their creativity, collaboration, and visual communication skills.

 

 

Junior Field Trips

We invite schools co-ops, and daycare centers that serve children ages 3-6 to participate in our Junior Field Trip Program. Each hour-long workshop will offer an introduction to one of our exhibit spaces and includes a creative activity tailored for each grade level. All field trips will end with a special treat! [more details]

 

All of our education programs are centered around project-based learning, media literacy, and constructivist and constructionist theory. Our Field Trips teach students to use critical thinking, build awareness of their own creative design thinking process, and develop real-world communication and collaboration skills.

To learn more about our Educational approach and projects and to see field trip examples, please visit our Education Blog here or call our Education office at 415.820.3566.

Interested in bringing an Educator to your classroom? Email education@creativity.org for more information.

Looking for a Group Visit without educator facilitation? Click here!

*Please Note: Groups are welcome to book multiple sessions in order to accommodate larger classes.

 

This program is made possible in part by the generous contribution of supporters including an Anonymous Donor, Cathay Bank, Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation, Edelman, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., House Family Foundation, The Joseph R. McMicking Foundation, Robert Half International, and U.S. Bank.

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