Pre-K - 2nd Grade
The following dates are exclusive to students from Pre-K to 2nd grade:
October 9th and 23rd, November 6th and 20th, and December 11th and 23rd.
Please check back later for more operational dates exclusive to Pre-K through 2nd grade groups for the 2026-27 school year
Urban Advantage
Urban Advantage vouchers cover the cost of general admission only. Groups can be a maximum of 200 people per day. Each voucher covers up to 40 people (including both children and adults) and may be redeemed multiple times to cover your whole group.
To book your visit using your Urban Advantage Voucher, please click here.
Outside of NYC
Thanks to customer feedback, we will no longer facilitate exclusive dates for the 2026-27 school year. Feel free to request the dates that work best for you! Our availability is listed in the FAQs below as well as the Reservation Form at the bottom of the page.
BOOKING, PAYMENT & CANCELLATION POLICIES
• To qualify as a group, we require at least 10 paid visitors. Our daily maximum per group is 150 guests (including adults).
• We require at least one (1) adult for every 10 children booked and for every 10 paid children, one (1) adult is complimentary. Extra chaperones pay the same rate as children.
• Advanced payment is required in full for all group trips. A 25% deposit or a Purchase Order is due four (4) weeks before your trip date. Full payment is due two (2) weeks prior to the trip date.
• Due to limited capacity, group bookings are not permitted during Community Hours (Fridays, 2-5pm).
• Membership benefits are not transferable to group reservations.
• For more information click here.
GROUP ADMISSION PRICING
• NYC Pre-K-12 Schools & DOE: $9/person
• Non-NYC Pre-K-12 Schools: $10/person
• Add-On Experiences: $5/person, requires admission ticket
- ◦ Movie Theater [click here for current showings]
◦ Connected Worlds
◦ Rocket Park Mini Golf [seasonal]
◦ Science Playground [seasonal]
• Cafeteria reservations are free and roughly 20 minutes, every half hour. You must bring your own lunch. Our cafeteria has limited options available for purchase onsite.
• If your buses will be parking in our lot, there is a fee of $20 per bus.
• Please note that these prices are school valid from September to June only. At this time, we are not booking reservations for Summer of 2027.
Student Worksheets
These one-page, double-sided worksheets are designed to encourage students to reflect, make observations and actively investigate exhibit learning goals. Each worksheet includes guiding prompts for engaging and exploring specific exhibits.
Human Plus Exhibit Worksheet (Grades 4-5)
Download our Human Plus Worksheet here to help your 4th and 5th grade students engage deeply with biomedical engineering and assistive technology. This resource scaffolds Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) engineering design practices, guiding students through the process of defining problems, analyzing constraints, and evaluating how tools are customized to optimize human physical capabilities.
Small Discoveries Exhibit Worksheet
We are excited to offer supplemental worksheets to enhance your class' experience while visiting. Download our Small Discoveries worksheet here to help your students engage directly with microbiology concepts. This resource addresses NGSS crosscutting concepts like scale, proportion, and quantity, allowing students to investigate micro-level systems and gather evidence about how microscopic microbes impact our macro-world.
Powering the City Exhibit Worksheet
Download our Powering the City worksheet here to help your students engage more with how the city and everything in it gets its energy. This resource reinforces core NGSS energy standards by turning the exhibition into a hands-on laboratory where students trace energy transfer, model energy conservation, and evaluate the real-world efficiency of different power grid systems.
CityWorks Exhibit Resources
CityWorks, NYSCI’s newest exhibition, offers rich opportunities for students to explore science and engineering concepts relating to our city’s infrastructure systems. NYSCI has developed grade-banded resource sets that align with learning standards and help teachers confidently integrate the exhibition into classroom instruction.
To accommodate different field trip schedules, these resources provide multiple entry points for exploration. Teachers can select either the 30-minute Focused Exploration, a structured, two-page layout engineered to help chaperones confidently guide students through core infrastructure content when short on time, or the 60-minute Deep Dive Exploration, a comprehensive option that uses detailed prompts and exhibit photos to systematically guide classes through every city system.
Each resource set consists of an educator guide and a student worksheet. The Educator Guide provides exhibit context, facilitation strategies, and suggestions for structuring exploration based on your chosen time block. The Student Worksheet provides students with prompts and reflection questions tailored to grade-level learning goals and schedule constraints.
Kindergarten CityWorks Student Activity Book
The Kindergarten student activity book is designed as an interactive, printable activity book tailored for early childhood development. It supports our youngest learners in exploring community workers, local transportation networks, and neighborhood animals through fine-motor tracing, drawing, and discussion-based prompts. Download the Student Activity Book.
1st-2nd Grade CityWorks Student Journal
The 1st to 2nd grade student journal is designed to support young learners in observing and reflecting on city transportation systems, city workers and urban animals. Download the Educator Guide and the Student Journal.
3rd-5th Grade CityWorks Resource Deep Dive Exploration (60 minutes)
The 3rd to 5th grade Deep Dive worksheet is designed to guide students systematically through every city infrastructure system in the exhibition. Using detailed prompts, reflection questions, and exhibit photos as visual anchors, it provides a comprehensive experience to deepen their understanding of how complex cities function. Download the Deep Dive Educator Guide and the Deep Dive Worksheet.
3rd-5th Grade CityWorks Resource Focused Exploration (30 minutes)
The 3rd to 5th grade Focused Exploration worksheet is a structured, highly valuable tool designed to maximize your learning standards even when your field trip is short on time. This condensed, two-page layout provides a clear, manageable framework that directly connects to curriculum objectives without making your students feel rushed. It is explicitly engineered to help chaperones confidently guide smaller student groups, keeping kids independently focused on specific infrastructure content and core systems thinking on the floor. Download the Focused Educator Guide and the Focused Worksheet.
6th-8th Grade CityWorks Educator Guide and Student Worksheet
The 6-8 grade worksheet is designed to guide students through each city infrastructure system in the exhibition using prompts and reflection questions to deepen their understanding of how cities function. Download the Educator Guide and the Student Worksheet.
9-12th Grade CityWorks Educator Guide and Student Worksheet
The 9–12th grade worksheet engages students in exploring city infrastructure and systems through the perspectives of city workers, highlighting the skills and knowledge required to keep a city functioning. Download the Educator Guide and the Student Worksheet.
Field Trip Tip:
Kick off the school year by sparking your students’ curiosity at the New York Hall of Science! Planning your field trip for the fall (October – December) helps establish a strong foundation for inquiry-based learning, aligns with your curriculum and brings complex science concepts to life. Whether your class is exploring energy or the engineering design process, a field trip to NYSCI can foster memorable learning moments that lasts all school year.
Field Trip Itineraries for Grades 4 – 5
These 90-minute itineraries are designed to help educators structure field trips in a purposeful way, maximizing students’ time exploring exhibits. Each itinerary is organized around an essential question aligned with science standards and intended to support students’ academic growth. The itineraries are flexible, with interchangeable sections and optional resources, allowing educators to adapt the experience to their class’s pace and specific learning goals.
ENERGY
Essential Question:
How does energy move through a city, and how do people design systems to generate and distribute energy?
Powering the City Exhibit (45 min.)
Discover how electricity is generated and used to power our lives.
Optional Exhibit Resource:
Powering the City Student Worksheet
CityWorks Exhibit (45 min.)
Investigate how energy moves through
NYC systems like transportation, buildings, and infrastructure.
Optional Exhibit Resource:
ENGINEERING
Essential Question:
How do engineers use testing and data to make their designs better?
Human Plus Exhibit (45 min.)
Explore how engineering and technology enhance human abilities and address accessibility challenges.
Optional Exhibit Resource:
Human Plus Worksheet Grades 4 – 5
Design Lab Exhibit (45 min.)
Practice engineering and problem solving skills through a series of hands-on design challenges
where students build, test and improve on their solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Group Sales office is open on the following days and times:
Tuesdays to Fridays: 10am to 1pm/2pm to 4:30pm
Saturdays: 2pm - 4:30pm
We can be reached via phone (929-623-3324) or via email.
We currently have group availability on:
Wednesdays - 10am, 10:30am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm arrival times
Thursdays - 10am, 10:30am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm arrival times
Fridays - 10am, 10:30am, 11am, and 12pm arrival times
Tuesdays will be available starting April 14, 2026 - 10am, 10:30am, 11am, and 12pm arrival times and a 2pm departure time.
Included with your General Admission are the following exhibits: Powering the City, Human Plus, Small Discoveries, Mathematica, Finding the Window (on our Upper Level), the Mars Rover, The Big Bubble Experiment, and Building Imagination. Your group will also have access to our Lower Level, which houses the Design Lab and our Daily Demonstrations, as well as the Rocket Park (a small outdoor area next to the Mini-Golf course where visitors can see and learn about our authentic NASA space shuttles).
The Cafeteria, Rocket Park Mini Golf, Movie Theater, the Science Playground, and Connected Worlds require an advanced reservation.
Payment can be made with a check, EFT, ACH, or over the phone via credit/debit card. We ask that all checks be mailed out so they arrive by the payment deadline on your invoice or hand delivered before said deadline.
We also accept Purchase Orders, which are a binding agreement for payment after services have been rendered and are due a month in advance of the trip date.
All checks can be made out to:
New York Hall of Science (attn. Group Sales)
47-01 111th Street
Corona, NY 11368
If you are mailing the check, we ask that you email us a photo of the check beforehand so that we can match and apply it to your reservation when it arrives and to please put the order number in the memo line. You may also deliver it in person on any day that we are open.
We’re currently open Wednesday through Sunday 10AM to 5PM.
As per our policies:
No refunds will be issued. Guest absentee passes will be issued for up to 30 students if fewer students are present on the day of the trip. Purchase Orders will be billed for the full amount. If there are absentees on the day of the trip: Admission passes — Up to $270 value will be provided for absentees to visit NYSCI within the following six months.
Groups who have reserved the outdoor Science Playground or Rocket Park Mini Golf and are unable to use it due to weather conditions, will be offered a film screening in the event of inclement weather.
At this time our museum is entirely self guided. We have staff posted around the exhibits whose sole function is to assist guests with the exhibits. If you have any questions during your visit any Visitor Experience or Explainer staff can help you. We suggest that if you are able, to visit the museum on your own or with fellow educators to familiarize yourself with the space. Teachers receive free General admission on any day that we are open.
At this time, the $9 rate provided to schools located in New York City is our lowest rate, at 60% off our General Admission pricing and 25% off of our Group Discount. This pricing was provided to us via our contract with the DOE and unfortunately cannot be lowered further.
Staff will direct you to bins to store lunches when you arrive as food and drink are not permitted on the exhibit floor. These bins will be labeled with your group name and group leaders will be given slips to indicate your group bin number. These bins will be brought to the cafeteria by staff ahead of your lunch time, so please arrive at lunch 5-10 minutes early for students to retrieve their lunch bags so you may make full use of your lunch time.
Purchasing bus parking guarantees a spot in our private lot. This is completely optional. Buses may use street parking but spots are not guaranteed. This is entirely up to your discretion and your agreement with the bus driver.
At this time, the New York Hall of Science is not facilitating birthday parties or celebrations. To fill this gap for those who are interested, we currently provide the following options: a room rental our Director of Space Rentals, or a group reservation booked by our team for a minimum of 10 guests.
Please submit this form to begin your reservation for a group visit to NYSCI. At this time, we are accepting bookings from September 16th to December 31st. Bookings for January to June will open late this Fall.
Completing this form does not guarantee a booking. You are booked into a date when you receive a confirmation from a representative.
Please allow 3 - 5 business days for this email to be sent and check your spam folder if you have not received an email within that time frame.
Duplicate forms with the same dates will not be booked.
