Educational Activities
Field Trip Experience
Join us at BPRC for a great day of education. This event includes a raptor presentation, guided trail hike through the native Blackland Prairie, and interactive age-appropriate educational activities.
Each field trip is a customized experience for your students, designed by your team and our educators.
Field Trip Options
Standard Day
3 hours including 30 minute lunch break
- Meet Live Raptors in amphitheater seating, learning form and function concepts. Interactive Ambassador experience with open Q&A.
- Nature hike through the Blackland Prairie showcasing seasonal highlights
- 3 hours (includes 30 min for lunch)
- Minimum # required: 25 students
- Pricing for Schools
- Up to 50 students = $17 per student, school employed adults, and participating parents/adults. No charge for school employed teachers/aides. No charge for toddlers (3 and under).
- 50+ students = $12 per student and school employed adults. Participating parents/adults are $17 each. No charge for school employed teachers/aides. No charge for toddlers (3 and under).
- Pricing for other groups
- Up to 50 people = $17 per participant. No charge for toddlers (3 and under). Please have one adult for every 10 minors.
- 50+ people = $12 per child and $17 per adult. No charge for toddlers (3 and under).
Enhanced Day
3.5 hours including 30 minute lunch break
- Standard Day package, plus;
- Additional customized grade level and TEKS-aligned fun activity using national program curriculum. The activity is a Project WILD or Project WET activity and is led by our volunteers who are Certified Project WILD Instructors and Certified Texas Master Naturalists.
- Activity can be aligned to support current classroom stud.
- Add $1/student
- No additional fee for teachers; $17/Chaperone
Premium Experience
Standard or Enhanced Day package, plus:
- Pre or Post Field Trip access to the Agents of Discovery app in the classroom for a specified time. Agents of Discovery is a digital education platform connecting students to nature and technology. Agents of Discovery engages the player/classroom with fun mission using various styles of challenges and rewards.
- Add another $1/student
- No additional fee for teachers; $17/Chaperone
Add-On Options
Owl Pellets
Price: $4/pellet
Pellets are the undigested parts of a bird’s food, such as hair or bones, which are regurgitated (coughed up through the beak)
- Great hands-on learning for kids to study about owls and the ecosystems in which they live
- During the dissection, they can see and identify the tiny bones from that owl’s meal, can learn about the owl’s diet and place in the food web
- All of our pellets are heat-sterilized
- Available seasonally
Owl Pellet Dissection Kit
Price: $8
Pellets are the undigested parts of a bird’s food, such as hair or bones, which are regurgitated (coughed up through the beak)
- Great hands-on learning for kids to study about owls and the ecosystems in which they live
- During the dissection, they can see and identify the tiny bones from that owl’s meal, can learn about the owl’s diet and place in the food web
- All of our pellets are heat-sterilized
- Includes owl pellet, bone dissection guide, toothpick, and plastic tweezer
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