Classified for credit

Minnesota National Guard museum covering state military history from the Civil War to present — primary-source military and social history.

Regional art museum focused on American art — supports visual arts and art history curriculum with works spanning the 19th century to present.

Minnesota Music Hall of Fame museum in New Ulm — covers the state's musical heritage with instruments, memorabilia, and inductee histories.

Urban national wildlife refuge with visitor center, trails, and river floodplain habitat — covers wetland ecology, migratory birds, and conservation biology.

Federal wildlife refuge visitor center with exhibits on Minnesota River valley ecosystems, migratory birds, and urban wildlife conservation programs.

Federally managed wildlife refuge unit along the Minnesota River — bird and wildlife ecology, wetland biology, and river floodplain geography.

Minnesota River valley recreation area with trails and floodplain habitat — riparian ecology, migratory bird study, and Minnesota river geography.

Regional visual arts center with galleries and studio programming — supports art appreciation, studio art technique, and art history units.

Regional park along the Mississippi River with interpretive trails and river access — covers riparian ecology, Mississippi watershed geography, and native wildlife.

Small Minnesota state park on a glacial lake with a tragic 1862 Dakota War history — covers freshwater ecology, glacial geography, and regional history.

University-operated planetarium with public shows covering astronomy, space science, and celestial navigation — supports earth science and mathematics curriculum.

Community observatory near New London, MN offering public stargazing — telescope mechanics, celestial navigation, and observational astronomy.

Municipal botanical garden along the Mississippi River with labeled plantings supporting plant biology and ecology curriculum.

Interactive optical illusion exhibits inside Mall of America — applied geometry, visual perception, and the neuroscience of sight.

Minnesota state park on glacially formed Fountain Lake with interpretive trails covering geology, woodland ecology, and migratory birds.

Old-growth maple-basswood Big Woods remnant in Minnesota with waterfalls and diverse understory flora — supports forest ecology and native plant biology.

Historic Lake Minnetonka estate gardens — early-20th-century landscape design and northern-MN plants.

Free public Japanese garden on Normandale College campus — landscape design principles, Japanese cultural geography, and native/ornamental plant study.

Scenic excursion railroad along Lake Superior — Great Lakes geography, regional logging and iron-ore history, and North Shore heritage.

Federal refuge preserving tallgrass prairie ecosystem in Minnesota — covers grassland ecology, native plant biology, and prairie conservation.

Brainerd-area arboretum — Minnesota native trees and northern-forest ecology.

Historic seed-warehouse complex housing artist studios and galleries — contemporary visual arts in an adaptive-reuse industrial building.

Hands-on children's discovery center covering early science, literacy, and nature concepts through interactive exhibits.

Urban nature preserve with trails supporting field study of native Minnesota plant communities, wildlife, and ecological conservation.