Skip to main content

School Field Trips

Hands-on education is the key to learning retention! 

Let our School Learning Expeditions help enhance your students’ classroom experience.

To schedule your School Learning Expedition, please call our office at 951.685.5818 or email our Education Coordinator Virginia ‘Ginny’ Odom at: education@jmdc.org.

  • Rock Collecting at the Dinosaurs
  • Introductory lapidary
  • Fossil Shack
  • Archaeology Dig
  • Gold Panning
  • Pictograph
  • California Rockhound
  • Dinosaur Dig
  • Adobe Brick Making

Many of these Programs can be presented at your site. Our Earth Science Museum includes specimens of rocks, minerals, and fossils from around the world. Furthermore, our special exhibits include one of the largest Dinosaur Egg Collections from China on display in the United States, a Mining Display, Fluorescent Minerals display, Crestmore Quarry display and much more.

Note: Offered programs and rates subject to change, call to confirm before planning your trip.

Two kids stand near large metal dinosaur sculptures in a park.

Family Learning Expeditions

Join a Learning Expedition into the past with a JMDC Guide. Families of Explorers or Solo Explorers will have fun while discovering about Rocks, Minerals and how Fossils are formed. You will then move into the reserved part of property to continue looking at more Dinosaurs sculptures and end by making a personal collection of twelve rocks, mineral or fossils. Come out and explore the past with JMDC.

Cost is $9.00 per person, children under two years of age are no charge.

Join our mailing list