Tennessee Guide for Teachers
One of the best ways to get your students engaged in learning is with first hand experience. Give your students a mind rush at these top field trip destinations. For more information about Tennessee review our page of Tennessee facts.
Johnson City: The Hands On! Regional Museum has over 20 exhibits designed intentionally for “touching”. A day spent here can encourage thinking, exploration and understanding of the truths taught in the classroom.
Kingsport: Bays Mountain Planetarium makes a fabulous field trip for your science class. You will find an aviary, deer pen, an ocean pool and nature interpretive center. History teachers will appreciate the 19th century farmstead museum, exhibition gallery and library. Available on site is a barge ride on the 44 acre lake.
Knoxville: The East Tennessee Discovery Center and AKIMA Planetarium offers a closer look at understanding energy, minerals, transportation, fossils and life cycles. Also open to the public is an aquarium and a planetarium.
Memphis: The Children’s Museum of Memphis encourages “thinking outside the box” through hands-on displays, exhibits and learning centers that focus on art, science, history and social studies.
Oak Ridge: Whether you teach history, art, science, or Life Skills, the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge has exhibits and displays that focus on International Galleries, Pioneer Living, and History. Also in Oak Ridge is the University of Tennessee Arboretum where your budding gardeners and landscapers can see more than 1,000 varieties of trees, shrubs, and flowering plants.
Sweetwater: Lost Sea offers a look at America’s largest underground lake as you take a guided tour in their glass bottom boats. Also of educational value is the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum which has 26 exhibits featuring over 6,000 items that tell the story of the area from the days of the Cherokees to the Great Depression.
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