STUDENT TRAVEL

MUSICALLY INCLINED educational component. Next, dive into Give your students a musical learning fascinating and stirring history with a experience with master’s classes at trip to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey the Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Plaza. The museum chronicles the life, Opera, Dallas Wind Symphony and death and legacy of President John F. local dance companies in the Dallas Kennedy with artifacts, photographs Arts District. Or have a performer from and exhibits. Enjoy a walk on the wild one of the Dallas Summer Musicals side by embarking on a rainforest speak to the students about the big adventure at the . stage. Dallas has a myriad of music Lounging sloths, swimming Antillean experiences. Performance opportunities manatees and swinging monkeys fill the also available. pathways to the Mundo Maya cenote. Here you will find sharks, rays and sawfish splashing about. CULTURAL ACTIVITIES Spread over 20 square blocks and encompassing 68 acres, the Dallas Arts DALLAS ON A DIME District is a walkable downtown hub Working on a small budget? Dallas has of creativity, featuring art for all the you covered. Start in the Dallas Arts senses with award-winning museums District at the , and performing arts venues. The district which has over 22,000 works of art is home to cultural institutions like from around the world and throughout the Dallas Museum of Art, the Crow time, spanning 5,000 years of human Museum of Asian Art (both free general creativity. Journey across the street admission), the to the Crow Museum of Asian Art , Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center to view a permanent set of galleries and AT&T Performing Arts Center. A dedicated to the arts and cultures of few blocks away, history buffs will want , , and Southeast . to visit the Dallas Holocaust and Human General admission is free to both the Rights Museum. DMA and Crow Museum. The museums are just steps away from Klyde Warren EDUCATIONAL Park, a huge park in the middle of the Start with a fun educational experience Arts District that’s always buzzing with at two of Dallas’ most unique museums.: activity such as games, yoga, lunch time The Perot Museum of Nature and Science performances and food trucks. On the and The George W. Bush Presidential north side of the park is the Federal Center. Engage your students through Reserve Bank of Dallas. Visit the free cutting edge, interactive tools that are “Economy in Action” exhibit and learn designed to create memorable science about the Federal Reserve, money and and history lessons. Both Museums the economy through interactive and have classroom activities to add to the multimedia displays. STUDENT TRAVEL

OFF THE BEATEN PATH . Travel 470 feet in the Dallas is a BIG place and plenty of great air to the GeO-Deck and capture the adventures can be found in any direction. perfect skyline background. Photo tip: The Trinity River Audubon Center is the plan on going around sunset to get perfect place to appreciate nature. Take the perfect orange glow reflecting off a hike along the trails in the largest the buildings as the lights of the city urban bottomland hardwood forest in turn on. If you are looking for Dallas’ the country. Academic programs are also western heritage, head down Young available which are designed to address Street to and pose with the need for students to improve and the larger-than-life cattle drive bronze strengthen their science and critical sculptures. Walk through Deep Ellum thinking skills while introducing them and snap a few shots of the 42 Murals to the wonders of nature. For more Project, a mecca of urban art. This adrenaline, continue nearby at the initiative as created as an opportunity to Trinity Forest Adventure Park, the ’ provide local, national, and international first aerial adventure park is a canopy artists to showcase their talent through tour through the trees, featuring a murals painted on the side many historic series of zip lines, cargo nets, Indiana buildings. Paintings include everything Jones bridges, and more! from “Welcome to Dallas” to “I Love You” to aliens and elephants. STEM-ULATE THE BRAIN Try one of the amazing Dallas STEM SPORTY SIDE programs. From museum laboratory Dallas knows sports and has every major programs at the Perot Museum team. You catch them live at some of of Nature and Science to college the best venues in all of sports. The prep classes at Southern Methodist American Airlines Center in Victory Park University, we have the perfect fit for is home to NHL action, courtesy of the your science, technology, engineering or mathematical criteria. Your students Dallas Stars, and the NBA excitement will have fun debating against other of Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks. student in the Situation Room at the Performance opportunities are also George W. Bush Presidential Library available. Whether you are a Dallas or enjoy a beautiful day outside on a Cowboys fan or not, it’s a “must” to walkSTEM tour. walkSTEM is great for tour the larger than- life AT&T Stadium. all who are up for taking a look at their See the art collection that is inspired environments in a fun and different way! by the spirit of sports and pose for a picture on the 50-yard line Star. Looking to practice your game? The Dallas SELFIE & INSTA-WORTHY Mavericks offer several programs for Dallas has many photo opportunities, student groups through the Dallas starting with the big ball in the sky, Mavericks Academy.