If you don’t see an in-school field trip experience that fits your class, don’t despair! Please check back in spring 2025 for new in-school field trip offerings. If you have any questions, please email stem@southernresearch.org.

We will provide all the necessary supplies, materials, and content for your students to successfully participate in all activities. At most, we will need something to display a PowerPoint presentation and access to electrical outlets for lab equipment.

Our in-school field trips are led by the experienced members of our STEM Education Outreach team, Dr. Kathryn Lanier, Ms. Molly Langston, Mr. Shon Essex, and our pre-service educator fellows.

In the event of severe weather, our top priority is the safety of you, your students, and our staff. Please let us know as soon as possible if you need to cancel due to severe weather. We will do our best to reschedule your in-school field trip, pending availability. Please contact stem@southernresearch.org to cancel your in-school field trip, with the subject line: In-School Field Trip Cancellation.

In the event you must cancel your in-school field trip, please contact us no later than 48 hours prior to our visit. Please contact stem@southernresearch.org to cancel your in-school field trip, with the subject line: In-School Field Trip Cancellation.

Yes! We strongly encourage you to take photos and videos. Please tag us @SRSTEMOutreach on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

We’ve designed these activities to fit within a 45-minute or 90-minute class period. We will use your school’s class schedule to determine the start and end of each session with your students (e.g., 2nd period – 8:55-9:45 AM). 

We can serve a class size of 32 students, and we can serve multiple class periods of the same subject within the same visit (e.g., we can do activities with 4 classes of biology students).

All Southern Research in-school field trips are free! These opportunities are made possible through support from the State of Alabama.

Please take a look at our calendar under In-School Field Trip Experiences. The calendar lists all open and available dates for in-school field trips.