Academic Experiential
Weekly experiential activities with an academic focus enhance what Discovery Ranch students learn in the classroom.
These activities have included problem solving activities like water bottle rockets or gingerbread house math. Live animal shows, guest speakers, and trips to museums or cultural performances bring new life to concepts learned in the classroom.
Some of the past and upcoming academic experiential activities include:
- Da Vinci Day inventions
- Water Bottle Rockets
- Steam Engine building
- Turkey bowling with math
- Radio shows
- Timpanogos Storytelling Festival
- Hogle Zoo
- Bingham Copper Mine
- Live animal shows (pythons, reptiles, birds)
- Choices Program
- Museums (historical, art, archeological, cultural, scientific)
- Traveling exhibitions (Anne Frank, Moving Vietnam Wall)
- Storytelling with puppets
- Guest speakers / lecturers / presenters
- Shark Week
- Clark Planetarium
- Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center
- Theater performances (musicals, comedies, educational)
- Ballet
- Problem solving activities
- Cultural performances (Living Legends, Folk Dancing)
- Gingerbread House Math
- World Hunger Cafe
- Murder Mystery Dinners
We invite you to get to know us better by exploring our website, or, if you prefer, call our admissions department at (801) 489-3311.




