Please Note:

The RMSC Museum & Science Center will be closed on Mondays for the remainder of the school year. We will be open on select school holidays. Please contact us at info@rmsc.org if you have any questions.

School Experiences at RMSC

Embark on a journey of discovery with your students at the RMSC Museum & Science Center, RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium, and RMSC Cumming Nature Center. Find the program to match your curriculum needs using the search tool below or call us at 585.697.1942 and we'll help you identify the best program for your class.

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Plan Your Visit! 

Once you have perused our offerings and are ready to request a program, fill out the form below. You can expect to hear back from our Guest Services team within 3-5 business days.

If you have questions, please call: 

585.697.1942 for RMSC Museum & Science Center and RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium 

585.374.6160 for RMSC Cumming Nature Center  

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Educator Program Search

Explore school programs using our Program Search below. This tool is designed to help you find the RMSC experience that best fits your needs. As always, we're here to help. Give us a call at 585.697.1942 and we will answer any questions you have.

How to navigate our Educator Search Tool:

  1. When you open this page, you'll see all of the field trips we offer at the RMSC. 
  2. You can select the grade level, program type, subject, and location filters to narrow down your search.
  3. Click on program titles that interest you to see more details, such as date availability.

Please note: as of September 1, 2022 the RMSC will no longer offer Monday school programs while the Museum & Science Center is closed. Thank you for your patience and understanding! 

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Dinosaurs

Inquiry Room Investigation

Grades PreK-2 | Take your experience to the next level with this hands-on companion program for our show-stopping Expedition Dinosaur exhibit!

Black Holes Revealed

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

Grades 9-12 | Discover the mysteries of Black Holes through one of our most popular shows.

Rochester Changemakers

Virtual Experiences

Grades 4-12 | Discover the stories of regional women from the past and present who changed the world. Walk in the steps of diverse leaders who have organized, advocated, invented, and enterprised to bring about change in American society.

Rocks, Fossils and More

Inquiry Room Investigation

Grades 1-5 | Explore fossils from the RMSC teaching collection. Sort rocks into three groups and learn about the minerals that make up rocks.

Introduction to Natural Communities

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grades 2-5 | Explore the woods to discover how all living things are connected through food chains and the relationships between consumers, producers and decomposers.

Maple Sugaring

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grades K-5 | From the Haudenosaunee to the American pioneers, and on to modern day methods, the time-honored tradition of making maple syrup blends both history and ecology.

Be an H2O Hero: How You Can Protect Your Watershed

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site , Virtual Experiences

Grades K-12 | We all live in a watershed... but, what’s a watershed?

Ecological Explorations

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grades 5-8 | Collect data from field, forest and pond communities to gain insight into communities, succession, food webs, and population dynamics.

Field Journal Journey

Cumming Nature Center Experiences, RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site , Virtual Experiences

Grades 4-12 | Explore the complexity and biodiversity of the natural world through observation and data collection using field journals.

Nature Awareness

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

PreK-2 | Discover the beauty and complexity of the natural world through activities that engage all the senses.

Water Monitors

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grades 5-12 | This field study examines the features of clean water. Students will collect usable data on a Cumming Nature Center creek by collecting benthic macroinverebrates, performing chemical tests, measuring physical characteristics of one of the healthiest creeks in the region.

Native American Environments & Culture

Guided Exhibit Workshops

PreK-3 | Take a closer look at the Algonquin, Apache, Haida, Pueblo, Inuit, Haudenosaunee and Plains cultures. Compare and contrast the past material culture of these various groups of Native Americans living across North America.

Simple Machines & Fantastic Forces

Inquiry Room Investigation

Grades K-4 | Explore simple machines while experimenting with pulley systems and ramps. Learn about friction, gravity and inertia while investigating the forces of motion.

Sun, Moon and Stars

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

Grades K-2 | Observe the Sun’s path through the sky from east to west. After sunset, find key constellations of the season by looking for distinctive features such as Orion’s Belt. Travel to the moon, returning just in time for sunrise.

Focus on Native Frogs

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grades 3-5 | This is a fun and dirty adventure that explores the amazing adaptations, lifecycle, and habit of the native frogs in our region.

RMSC DELIVERS: Rocks and Minerals

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site

Grades 3-7 | This outreach gives the student a hands-on understanding of geology.

What’s the Matter? (Solids, Liquids, and Gases)

Inquiry Room Investigation

Grades PreK-2 | Explore the states of matter by comparing and contrasting solids, liquids and gases. Do hands-on experiments about liquid density and chemical reaction. Learn about polymers and make slime to take home.

Frog Adaptations

Inquiry Room Investigation, Virtual Experiences

Grades 3-4 | Discover the ingenious adaptations of live frogs and why they’re important.

RMSC DELIVERS: Light and Color

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site

PreK-12 | Explore how and why we see colors in this fun, interactive show. Experiment with color mixing and learn about the different kinds of primary colors.

RMSC DELIVERS: Bats

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site

PreK-2 | This fun and interactive program will help your students to understand bats, and the important part they play in our ecosystem.

Solar System Science

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

Grades 3-8 | Surrounded by the best images from recent space missions such as the New Horizons Pluto flyby projected at giant scale, students encounter the majesty, mystery and wonder of our solar system.

RMSC DELIVERS: Dinosaurs

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site

PreK-2 | This very interactive program expands the students’ imagination as they learn about and “create” a fossil. Students become “paleontologists” in a mock “dig”, and then role play as dinosaurs to explore how they move, eat, and defend themselves.

Winter Ecology

Cumming Nature Center Experiences, Virtual Experiences

Grades 5-12 | Examine how plants and animals adapt to winter.

RMSC DELIVERS: Field Journaling

Interactive Show/Assembly at Your School

Grades 4-9 | Discover the natural history of field journaling and what value a field journal can have for individuals and citizen science.

Tour of the Solar System

Science on a Sphere

Grades PreK-2 | Explore beautiful cutting-edge images of our solar system as you travel through space and learn the properties of each planet.

RMSC DELIVERS: Insects

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site

Grades K-2 | This fun, interactive program will get your class buzzing about insects. Students will take on the role of dragonflies, bees, crickets, and other insects, as they learn about insect anatomy, eating habits, and how they communicate.

Scale of the Universe

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

Grades 9-12 | Expanding our view by powers of ten, we survey the universe from human scale to the limit of the observable universe, 100 to 1026 meters. Visualizations based on real NASA data.

Roving Robots

Inquiry Room Investigation

Grades 1-5 | Discover how robots are programmed to perform tasks. Program a robot to complete a mission in space. Build a robot to communicate to extraterrestrial life!

Animal Defenses

Cumming Nature Center Experiences, RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site , Virtual Experiences

Grades 1-4 | This adventure explores the unique defense mechanisms that our local plants, animals, and other critters use to protect and defend themselves.

Live Science: Electricity Theater

Demonstration (Live Science)

Grades 1-12 | Two six foot tall Tesla Coils throwing 8 foot arcs of plasma (lightning) and the arcs actually play music. Our Faraday Cage can make the day of many in attendance electrifying!

Plastic Lakes: A little Litter Goes a Long Way

Science on a Sphere

Grades 6-8 | Plastic pollution has been widely studied in the ocean, however scientists have only recently started to study this problem in the Great Lakes.

Our Changing Earth

Science on a Sphere

Grades 6-12 | Take a closer look at how scientists determine the health of our planet.

Beaver Ecology

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grades 3-7 | Discover adaptations, natural and cultural history of beavers.

Live Science: Solids, Liquids & Gases

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site , Virtual Experiences, Demonstration (Live Science)

Grades 2-12 | Our coolest demonstrations, literally! This program explores temperature's effect on solids, liquids and gasses using liquid nitrogen.

RMSC DELIVERS: Energy

RMSC Delivers: Experiences at Your Site , Virtual Experiences

Grades 1-12 | The question is: “What is energy?” Demonstrators guide students in exploring these different forms of energy, how they connect, and how they are used.

Rotation and Revolution

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

Grades 3-6 | Take a virtual trip from Earth’s surface into the solar system to see vividly how rotation and revolution produce the cyclical sky changes we see.

I See the Sky

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

PreK-K | Young children learn about day and night, the Sun and moon, bright and faint stars, constellations and meteors.

Climate and Our Changing Forest

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grade 5-12 | Explore how a changing climate affects flora and fauna, and collect data valuable to citizen science projects.

Light Up the Martian City: Alternative Energy Challenge

Engineering Design Lab, Virtual Experiences

Grades 2-8 | Become part of an elite team of astronauts as you construct an energy grid for the first human settlement on Mars.

Earthskills

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

K-5 | Students will discover how to tune in to nature through games and activities involving stealth and observation while practicing survival skills like shelter, fire building, woodcraft, and more.

Erie Canal Simple Machine Challenge

Engineering Design Lab

Grades 4-8 | Simple Machines to the rescue! It's time to clear the path to make way for the Erie Canal, but we need your team to build a “stump puller.”

Naturalist in the Zoom! Custom Programs

Virtual Experiences

Grades Pre-K-12 | What are your students curious about in the natural world? What seasonal events, animal activities, bug perplexities, strange phenomena or wild finds might stump the Naturalist?

Solar System Science - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades 3-8 | Surrounded by the best images from recent space missions such as the New Horizons Pluto flyby projected at giant scale, students encounter the majesty, mystery and wonder of our solar system.

Ticks! - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades 3-7 | Ticks are amazingly adapted! Take a microscopic look at local tick species to learn more about them.

Insects - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades K-3 | Explore the incredible world of insects and the important roles they play in our ecosystem.

Climate and Changing Ecosystems - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades 5-10 | Explore how changing weather patterns over time create climate, and the affects of changing climates on ecosystems past, present, and future.

Field Journaling - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades 4-9 | Discover the natural history of field journaling and what value a field journal can have for individuals and citizen science.

What Tells Us That There Was a Big Bang? - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades 9-12 | Review the three pillars of evidence that our universe is emerging from a Big Bang.

Day and Night On Our Planet - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades K-2 | Discover how the Earth and our view of outer space changes throughout the day and night.

Gravity, Scale, and Motion - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades 7-12 | See how gravity influences the structure and motions of solar systems and galaxies.

How To Predict Eclipses - Virtual

Virtual Experiences

Grades 9-12 | We review the sun and moon motions needed to produce a solar eclipse. Then we discover how to predict when those conditions will recur.

Holiday Laser

Planetarium Laser Show

Grades K-8 | A holiday classic returns, with popular songs choreographed to dancing laser light effects.

Ticks Up Close

Cumming Nature Center Experiences

Grades 3-8 | Students will use microscopes to observe local tick species, learn how the most common tick species on the East Coast spread Lyme disease, and discuss the many ecosystem and climate factors that control tick populations.

Journey of Sound

Inquiry Room Investigation, Virtual Experiences

Grades PreK-4 | Explore how sound travels by experimenting with tuning forks, a spouting bowl, and instruments. Investigate of sound vibrations by creating a croaking frog!

The Haudenosaunee

Guided Exhibit Workshops, Virtual Experiences

Grades 4-8 | Discover the rich culture- past and present - of the Haudenosaunee people, more commonly known as the Iroquois Confederacy.

Stories in Stone

Guided Exhibit Workshops

Grades 2-9 | Get hands on with rocks, minerals and fossil and discover the Earth Systems that shaped our local geology.

Animal Adaptations

Guided Exhibit Workshops, Virtual Experiences

Grades PreK-4 | Beavers, bears and birds, oh my! Structure follows function as students explore the adaptations that abound in the animal kingdom!

Predicting Weather

Science on a Sphere

Grades 3-8 | Discover the complex interactions and movement of air masses on our 5 ft. interactive globe.

Plates in Motion

Science on a Sphere

Grades 4-8 | Examine earthquakes, volcanoes and seafloor structures to evaluate the theory of past plate motions.

Inquiry Room Exploration

Inquiry Room Investigation

PreK | Explore science in a less structured setting as you learn and play in the unique Carlson Inquiry Room. Meet our live animals and investigate magnetism. Learn about states of matter as you experiment with vinegar and baking soda and make your own slime to take home.

Stormy Science

Inquiry Room Investigation, Virtual Experiences

Grades K-3 | Button up your raincoats and get ready to chase some storms!

Insect Investigations

Inquiry Room Investigation, Virtual Experiences

Grades K-3 | Explore the wonder of butterfly metamorphosis. Learn how insects communicate and meet the live critters that make their home in the RMSC Carlson Inquiry Room.

Haudenosaunee School Days

Special Program, Field Trip Adventures

Grades 4-8 | Immerse your students in the vibrant art and culture of today's Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). Celebrate Haudenosaunee culture—past and present.

Self Guided Nature Walk

Self-Guided Cumming Nature Center Experience

PreK - 12 | Embark on a self-guided nature walk at Cumming Nature Center!

Flight to Freedom: Rochester’s Underground Railroad

Guided Exhibit Workshops, Virtual Experiences

Grade 3-8 | Follow the North Star on a journey from slavery, to the doors of abolitionists, and on to freedom during this Underground Railroad Immersion Experience in our Flight to Freedom exhibition.

The Sky Tonight and the Life Cycles of Stars

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

Grades 9-12 | Get a unique view of what's in the sky tonight

Planet Spectacular

Planetarium Digistar Presentation

1-2 | Depart Earth, visit Pluto and all the planets in our solar system!

Eclipse Preview

Special Program, Planetarium Digistar Presentation

Grades 9-12 | Prepare for the upcoming 2023 & 2024 solar eclipses.

Take it Down! Organizing Against Racism

Immersive Day Programs

Grades 3-12 | Explore the story of a local, racist carousel panel and join in the meaningful dialogue it encourages regarding individual, institutional, and structural racism.


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