Explore The Square!
The Square PHX offers hundreds of fun, educational experiences for visitors of all ages. Join us for field trips, family activities, workshops, gallery talks & more. Start exploring today!
School Field Trips
Field Trip: Discover Life in 1900
Discover Life in 1900 is a two-hour, interactive field trip program that offers four exciting learning stations. Your students will rotate through the stations in small groups, allowing for a personal and hands-on experience. The stations include:
- Tour the Rosson House: Take a tour of the Rosson House, exploring themes including early Phoenix, technology, transportation, and 19th century lifeways.
- Experience 19th Century Chores: Using both real and reproduction artifacts, students learn first-hand about the chores their turn-of-the-century counterparts may have done.
- Become History Detectives: While exploring historic documents and photos, students become detectives, developing theories about territorial Phoenix.
- Play Victorian Games: Hoop and Stick was once a favored outdoor game. Students try their hand at controlling the wooden hoops while racing their classmates.
More Information:
- Age Group: Field trips to The Square PHX are designed for third and fourth graders. We can accommodate other age groups, but for the best experience we recommend groups be within these grade levels.
- Cost: $9/students, $15/chaperones, 1 adult for every 5 students is free.
- Time: Program length is 2 hours.
- Availability: Field trips can be scheduled on Wednesday mornings. Some days may be unavailable due to other programs and/or events.
- Group size: A minimum of 4 children is required to book a field trip. Due to staffing constraints we can only accommodate school groups as large as 30 children.
- Payment: We require payment 2 weeks prior to the visit in order to confirm your reservation in the calendar. We can accept POs and checks from schools only.
- Transportation: School buses can drop off students along the gated 6th Street passageway, and can park in the garage at 7th Street and Washington. We’re also on the light-rail, so click here if you plan to travel on mass transit.
- Lunch: Your group is welcome to have lunch on site. We offer picnic style space in shade or sun. Please let us know if you’ll be picnicking at the Square when you book your visit.
To schedule a school field trip, please fill out the form and a staff member will contact you.
Homeschool Field Trips
Homeschool Field Trip: Discover Life in 1900
“Discover Life in 1900” is a two-hour, interactive field trip program that offers four exciting learning stations. Your students will rotate through the stations in small groups, allowing for a personal and hands-on experience. The stations include:
- Tour the Rosson House: Take a tour of the Rosson House, exploring themes including early Phoenix, technology, transportation, and 19th century lifeways.
- Experience 19th Century Chores: Using both real and reproduction artifacts, students learn first-hand about the chores their turn-of-the-century counterparts may have done.
- Become History Detectives: While exploring historic documents and photos, students become detectives, developing theories about territorial Phoenix.
- Play Victorian Games: Hoop and Stick was once a favored outdoor game. Students try their hand at controlling the wooden hoops while racing their classmates.
More Information:
- Age Group: Field trips to The Square PHX are designed for 3rd and 4th grade. Homeschool groups can be a mix of ages and grades, but for the best experience, we recommend groups be within these grade levels.
- Cost: $9/students, $15/chaperones, 1 adult for every 5 students is free.
- Time: Program length is 2 hours.
- Availability: Field trips are scheduled on Wednesday mornings. Some days may be unavailable due to other programs and/or events.
- Group size: A minimum of 4 children over 5 is required to book a field trip. Due to staffing constraints we can only accommodate groups as large as 30 children.
- Payment: We require payment 2 weeks prior to the visit in order to confirm your reservation in the calendar.
- Transportation: We’re on the light-rail, so click here if you plan to travel on mass transit.
- Lunch: Your group is welcome to have lunch on site. We offer picnic style space in shade or sun. Please let us know if you’ll be picnicking at the Square when you book your visit.
To schedule a homeschool program, please fill out the form and a staff member will contact you.
Girl Scouts
Playing the Past Badge
For Juniors (4th and 5th grades): Learn about women in history as you research a historical figure, dress the part, and experience everyday Victorian life. The 2 hour visit includes a tour of the Rosson House and all badge requirements. Groups must have a minimum of 4 Scouts, and a maximum of 14.
- $9 per Girl Scout
- 1 adult per 5 Girl Scouts is free, and $15 for each additional chaperone
To schedule a Girl Scouts program, please fill out the form and a staff member will contact you.
Program Partner Status
The Square PHX Foundation is a Program Partner with Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council. This activity is not run by GSACPC. Our staff and volunteers are not associated with the Girl Scouts. While we have undergone background screening by the Foundation, we have not undergone background screening by the Girl Scouts or the Council.
Traveling Trunks
Traveling Trunks
Take a journey back in time with your students and learn how people lived in early Phoenix. History and culture come to life through engagement with artifacts, analysis of primary sources, and experience with hands-on activities. Our trunks are great for school classrooms, homeschool groups, and even camps during school breaks!
Arizona’s Five Cs
This traveling trunk, developed with a generous grant from Kinder Morgan, uses Arizona’s traditional 5 C’s—climate, cotton, citrus, cattle, and copper—to teach students about the development of the state. The trunk comes with lesson plans, hands-on activities, primary source materials, and some genuine artifacts, including a branding iron and a miner’s lamp!
Each lesson plan is designed to meet State of Arizona Learning Standards for 3rd and 4th grade students.
A Child’s Life in 1900
Can’t make it to the Rosson House Museum with your class or group? Our traveling trunk is a portable version of The Square PHX’s on-site field trip. The trunk includes 5 lesson plans and hands-on activities so that children can experience “A Child’s Life in 1900” and understand the dramatic changes in lifestyles over the past 100 years.
The lessons and hands-on activities include a primary source activity, analyzing an early map of Phoenix, doing laundry using washboards and clotheslines, writing on slate boards, and playing the historic game of Graces. Each lesson plan is designed to meet State of Arizona Learning Standards for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. Follow this link for details on curriculum alignment.
To request a Traveling Trunk, please fill out the form and a staff member will contact you.
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Partners
Thank you to these local organizations for their grants supporting our organization.
