Field Trips

Since 1998, Phinizy Center’s Education Department has conducted hands-on environmental science field trips for preK-12th and undergraduate students. On these inquiry-based field trips, students explore scientific concepts through interactive investigations of watersheds, wetland habitats, urban water cycles, and stream ecology.

This creative approach to science education meets Georgia and South Carolina academic standards in Biology, Chemistry, Physical Science, Ecology, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Geology, Earth Science, Geography, and Economics.

Are you a homeschool group? Check out our Homeschool Science Enrichment Program!

Program Details

Field trip program details can be found in our Education Program Guide and the standards each program correlates with are in the document below.

Program Guide

Field Trip Standards

Book Your Field Trip

Fill out the interest form below to start the booking process. We will be in touch with details, like field trip costs which vary based on grade and program length. For more information, call 706-796-7707 or email education@phinizycenter.org.

Student Liability Form

Adult Liability Form

Additional forms, including versions in Spanish, can be found here.

Field Trip Interest Form

Provide us with some information to help us book your field trip and we will get back to you shortly. Please note, if you are inquiring about a field trip after September 2026, we will be in touch after the summer break while our education director is on leave.

Name of School/Organization(Required)

County of School/Organization(Required)

Is Your School Title 1?(Required)

Yes

Not Applicable

Teacher Contact Information

Name(Required)

First Name Last Name

Phone(Required)

Email(Required)

Additional Information

Student Grade Level(s)(Required)

Number of Classes(Required)

Estimated Number of Students(Required)

If you are coming multiple days, please specify how many you would expect on each day.

Time You Want to Start the Program(Required)

Richmond County buses usually cannot get to the park until 10am.

Range of Dates You are Available for the Field Trip(s)(Required)

Depending on the grade level, our field trips have a maximum number of students. If you are bringing a large group, you will have to book multiple days. See our program guide on the field trip webpage for the maximums by grade.

Requested Field Trip Program(Required)

Check out our program guide on our field trip webpage to help you decide. If you have questions about a program, list them here.

Student Special Needs (such as wheelchairs, English second language, on the spectrum etc.)

Anything that could be helpful for us to know.

Other Notes or Comments

Field Trip Rubrics for Teachers

Rubrics are a scoring scale that provides evaluation and assessment for both students and teachers. Each program rubric is based on a 4-point scale, with 4 being the highest level of content mastery and 1 being a minimal mastering of the content. For the purpose of our evaluation, these rubrics were written holistically, so that teachers could give us a general assessment of their students’ content mastery before and after the field trip.

For classroom use, teachers can break the holistic rubrics down by separating the components of each level into separate rubrics. Feel free to share these with your students so they know what we think they should learn on the field trip!

Elementary School Rubrics

Middle School Rubrics

High School Rubrics