Student Activity Guides
Printable material for Bullock Museum films and exhibitions
Explore materials that will encourage conversation and help your students discover history, science, and culture.
We suggest selecting one or more Activity Guides for museum exhibitions that you would like to use with your students on a field trip, then print them, and distribute them amongst chaperones and students. Please plan to bring clipboards or notebooks to use as a writing surface.
Not sure which one might be best for your group's field trip length and content focus? Want to use them on the visit, but are unable to print them in advance? Contact Reservations@TheStoryofTexas.com for assistance.
Activity Guides for All Grade Levels
Activity Guides help students focus on specific topics and skills during their Museum visit.
Making a Living Activity Guide
What jobs have Texans done over time, and how has the state’s geography influenced which industries grew here? How have trade and new industries shaped the economy of Texas? Find out by using the Making a Living Activity Guide. Explore the Texas History Galleries, looking closely at the artifacts and following the guide as it leads your students through six activities in the Museum.
Artifact Adventure
Send your students on an adventure to find an artifact in the Museum, and learn how to analyze it like a historian.
Find and Sketch
As they visit the Museum galleries, your students become artists by sketching artifacts that represent thematic topics. Later, enjoy using their sketches in various ways in your classroom.
Museum Rotunda Mosaic Search
Head up the Grand Staircase to the third floor Rotunda, and look down. Using the Mosaic in the Rotunda floor, students will explore the history of Texas and learn the importance of a detailed examination of artifacts.
Bobstagram Photo Scavenger Hunt
Have your students become keen observers as they take on this Bobstagram Photo Scavenger Hunt. Using cameras, students will find artifacts that represent the concepts in the activity.
Activity Guides for Films
Both the Texas Spirit Theater, a multi-sensory experience, and the IMAX® Theatre offer a memorable and fun way to understand history, science, and culture.
Want to enrich your students' experience in the theater? Use these downloads to accompany films currently on view with activities in the classroom before or after your trip to the Museum.
Fungi: The Web of Life
Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast, hidden network that we are only just beginning to understand. Out of sight, between the world of plants and animals, another world exists—the kingdom of fungi. For learners and adventurers of all ages, Fungi invites you to experience a whole new side of nature and gain a richer understanding of the need for its stewardship. A rich tapestry of cinematography, music and science, the film explores these miraculous organisms, their connections to the rest of life on land, and the promises they hold for humanity’s future.
Deep Sky
Deep Sky goes behind the scenes of the James Webb Telescope, capturing its launch and the release of the mindblowing first full-color images seen by billions around the world. The film is a thrilling story that begins during the telescope’s construction, following it to the harrowing launch stage, and through the release of the first full-color images to the public on July 12, 2022 and beyond.
- Student Activities
- Video Interview with James Webb Space Telescope Astrophysicist
- Coloring & Art Activities
- Downloadable Posters & Bookmarks
- More details on the film
Animal Kingdom
Meet the six fascinating families of the animal kingdom and explore just what makes our natural world so spectacular. An educational journey from A-Z, Animal Kingdom introduces animals from all over the world and explores the ways in which we can help to protect them. Across frozen snowy forests, under scorching African sun, and into the darkest depths of the ocean, the film will break down why animals are the way they are and answer the simple but important questions that form the basis of our knowledge about the animal world.
School Field Trips presented by The John M. O'Quinn Foundation.
School Programs are generously funded by Featured sponsor The Marie M. and James H. Galloway Foundation, Supporting sponsor The Lange Family Foundation, and Contributing sponsors Bella and Chase Cooley, Dian Graves Owen Foundation, and Roger and Marianne Staubach.
The Bullock Museum, a division of the Texas State Preservation Board, is funded by Museum members, donors, and patrons, the Texas State History Museum Foundation, and the State of Texas.