Choose your field trip experience
Discovery Lab & Tour
The best class field trip ever! Immerse your students in hands-on lab investigations with live animals and realia. Lab activities are designed for specific grade levels to support the Next Generation Science Standards. Your Discovery Lab is followed by a guided tour of sites at Long Marine Laboratory. 32 students maximum. Learn more.
Self-guided Exploration
Customize your own experience with a variety of indoor and outdoor activities to fit your schedule and group size. Live animals inspire your students to make their own observations, wonder, and develop questions. Knowledgeable docents illuminate how researchers work in the lab and the field. Students learn how marine scientists think and work to understand our ocean planet. Learn more.
Reserved Tour
Reserve a private tour guide for your students to learn about marvelous marine science. During your 30-minute tour, your guide will take you behind the scenes at Long Marine Lab to see incredible marine mammals participating in UCSC conservation science. You will also discover fascinating blue whale science alongside “Ms. Blue’s” massive skeleton. Before or after your tour, explore the Seymour Center’s exhibits, aquarium tanks, shark pool, and seawater touch table. Learn more.
Educator Mailing List
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Homeschool Day
Join a morning of special programming for homeschool families, including hands-on science investigations, marine-themed crafts, and guided tours. Touch live animals and explore coastal climate science activities and exhibits. Admission fees apply. Sign up for the Educator Mailing List to be notified as soon as dates are announced for the 2024-25 school year.
Distance Learning
Bring marine science into your classroom or home with Seymour Center resources.
Climate-smart Actions
Your students can make a meaningful difference together. Check out these fun ideas for Climate-smart Actions.
Questions? Email discover@ucsc.edu