In a 1973 Smithsonian behavioral science project, observational methods were used to record school group behaviors during docent guided tours in the National Museum of History and Technology. The purpose of this exploratory study was to reveal the natural museum habitat and criterion behaviors of visiting fourth through sixth graders. Children's responses were characteristic of four categories--orientation, verification, discovery, and integration--which were found to vary in different museum settings. The four categories were sufficiently described to further the development of a standard which could be used to judge the quality of a tour experience, to understand better the nature of children's experiences in different museum settings, and to apply them to docent training for which three proposed studies are described. Recommendations for changes in the Pharmacy Tour also resulted from this study. This report of the study contains an appendix with samples of observation, instruments, settings, data and logic employed to gather the results described, and an appendix of designs for future studies. (Author/JH)