Educational Workshops Educational Theater Festivals and Events Educational Gallery Resources Educational Outreach Educator Enrichment Homeschool Programming      Homeschool Tuesdays      Family Backpacks Planning Your Field Trip Educators eNewsletter Educators > Homeschool Programming > Family Backpacks NEW! Family Backpacks Set out on an interactive museum adventure by grabbing a Family Backpack. These backpacks offer fun for the whole family as they guide you through an enhanced gallery experience filled with hands-on activities, games and crafts. So strap on a backpack and experience the museum like never before. Family Backpacks can be reserved for $3 at the museum ticket counter. Fossils Family Backpack Travel back in time to explore Indiana’s Ancient Seas and Ice Age. This backpack is your chance to touch the fossil remains of sea creatures living several hundred million years ago and construct a mammoth skeleton similar to those roaming Indiana when humans first entered this land. All of the activities in this family backpack will make the past come alive. Wildlife Family Backpack Wildlife is all around us — even inside the Indiana State Museum. With this backpack, you will learn to track, spot and identify Indiana’s plants and animals as you enjoy an in-depth exploration of the museum’s Natural Regions gallery. After the final activity, you may even leave looking like your favorite animal!