Florida Fossil Field Trip

Private Educational Fossil Tours for Schools & Camps

A Florida fossil field trip in Gainesville offers students an exciting, hands-on way to explore paleontology in a real outdoor environment. Designed specifically for schools, camps, and youth organizations, our private educational tours combine adventure, science, and discovery.

We offer student discounts for organized educational group tours. Discount varies with group size but we’re happy to give you a quote.
We organize our field trips as private group tours, similar to our regular group tours, but with an emphasis on education.
We use canoes to visit less-collected areas on the Peace River to dig and sift gravel in shallow areas.
We also spend some time familiarizing students with the local geology and paleontology to enrich the experience and provide context.
Feel free to ask for more info and get a quote.

How to Book Your Florida Fossil Field Trip

Visit our contact page to request date(s) and get a quote for your group fossil hunting adventure.

Additionally, our private group tours are an authentic Florida experience with a built-in science and history lesson. Every student takes home pieces of history they can hold in their hand.

Learn more about our Florida Fossil Hunting Tours for families and private groups.

I look forward to taking your group for a great day on the Peace River!

Part Two: After the museum tour(s), we’ll take a break for lunch and then do an on-site fossil dig for lots of real Florida fossils the students will get to keep! We’ll give each student approximately a cup of our fossil-rich gravel from the Peace River where we do our regular fossil-hunting tours. This gravel is loaded with Miocene and Pleistocene fossils. Most commonly found are shark teeth but there are often stingray fossils, fish, whale, dolphin, and land mammal bones and teeth from Ice-Age Florida. Typically, 20-30 fossils can be found in a single cup; many of the shark teeth are 1/2″ to 1-1/2″ long.

Take advantage of these two unique opportunities in one day and give your students a memorable experience in Florida history/paleontology. We can perform this field trip for as little as $20. per student depending on group size. Call or email for an exact quote and more details about this trip. Anyone with enthusiasm to explore the really old Florida is cordially invited! email- fredmazza at paleodiscoveries dot com