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Give your students a TEKS-aligned adventure with a

Free Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge Field Trip

Join Us for a Field Trip Open House: Friday, September 19, 2025, 1:00 to 4:00 PM

Come and meet the field trip team! We’ll visit the Butterfly Garden, summarize the lessons, enjoy the hike and discuss how these activities reinforce science TEKS.

This event is open to the public but Please REGISTER for the Open House 

We'd love to meet you!


With the support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the refuge, our knowledgeable volunteers—with over 100 years of combined teaching experience— will take your students on a hike through prairie, pond, forest and riparian ecosystems—reinforcing their science TEKS. Along the way, we’ll compare the habitats we encounter and help students identify animal tracks, bird songs, native plants, and other interesting discoveries. at the refuge, our knowledgeable volunteers—with over 100 years of combined teaching experience— will take your students on a hike through prairie, pond, forest and riparian ecosystems—reinforcing their science TEKS. Along the way, we’ll compare the habitats we encounter and help students identify animal tracks, bird songs, native plants, and other interesting discoveries.

Next, we'll visit Hagerman’s ΒΌ acre pollinator garden and teach the students how to use insect binoculars. We’ll set them loose to explore, giving them a chance to get a close-up look at live butterflies, bugs, spider egg sacs, chrysalises, and whatever else they can find! We’ll wrap up by connecting their observations to TEKS concepts such as life cycles and the functions of organisms.

We have animal skins and skulls, real bird feathers, and even models of tracks and scat to explore! Students will get to see the differences between carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores up close, and discover how food chains really work.

Apply for a Free Field Trip Today! Our Fall Schedule is filling quickly!

Field Trip FAQs

  • Field trips are staffed by volunteers including retired teachers and Texas Master Naturalists
  • Field Trips are free, and mostly scheduled on Tuesdays or Thursdays, 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM*  
  • Maximum number of students: 100
  • There is no food available for sale at the refuge, but teachers may reserve the pavilion for a picnic; the Visitor Center has a water bottle refill station.
  • Lesson plans are subject to change.
  • Yes!  Our field trips are aligned to the Texas Science TEKS!

*Requests for other days and times will be considered and accommodated when possible.

Classroom Visits are also available!

A Master Naturalist would be happy to visit your classroom to share a lesson about nature with your students. Available for any grade, you may choose a topic or allow the naturalist to choose.

Questions? Contact Us for more information.


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Events and activities hosted by the Friends of Hagerman are funded by donations and powered solely by volunteers.  There are no fees for admission to the refuge or parking. The refuge is open from sunrise to sunset every day of the year and you may drive on any road unless gated.

6465 Refuge Road

Sherman, TX 75092

             

Kroger: Stop by the customer service desk at Kroger and link your Kroger Card to the Friends of Hagerman: the Friends will get rewards for every dollar you spend, at no cost to you.

Please add info@friendsofhagerman.org to your contacts to ensure delivery of registration confirmations, account information and the Featherless Flyer

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See you at the refuge! 

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