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Advice from Experienced
Organizers
Common
sense guidelines for Homeschool Field Trips
Please be kind to your Field Trip coordinator. Here are just
a few common sense (for most of us-lol) guidelines to help your
Homeschool group's field trip person.
Field
Trip Basics
My feeling is that if I can provide fun, educational field trips
and adventures for my kids on a regular basis, they will have
great memories of our time together, as well as experiential
learning to back up our bookwork. by Kris Bordessa.
The
Field Trip Lady
Whether you do unit studies, a full curriculum, or are a happy
unschooler, field trips can add flavor to your life, cement what
has been learned or be a complete educational experience in itself.
Sometimes a field trip can be taken for the sheer pleasure of
it. By Teri Brown.
Hiking with Homeschoolers
Hiking into nature provides the perfect environment for some
whole learning that can cross the subject borders: physical education,
science, history, social studies, literature, and art. By Sheri
McGregor.
Homeschool Rangers
Offers inspiration, suggestions, ideas, and space for sharing and discussion on using our National Parks and Monuments in a homeschool curriculum.
How
to Plan a Field Trip
Planning a field trip isn't as difficult as you might imagine.
Start with what interests your family and work from there. The
chances are, if it's a field trip in which you would like to
participate, so would other families. Questions to ask the facility.
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Make
the Most of It
There is no magic formula for visiting museums. A spur-of-the-moment
trip can be just as rewarding as a planned visit. But if you
have the time, some things that you can do before, during, and
after the visit may help to enrich the experience. Tips from
The Smithsonian.
Organizing
Field Trips
You have volunteered to coordinate field trips. Now what? Sure,
you have lots of energy and ideas now, but what happens when
you run out of ideas? What happens when nobody will help you?
Worse, what if no one shows up? By Rhonda Conner, NHEN.
A
Successful Field Trip is Just Four "P's" Away
Beth Ann Erickson enumerates: prepare, provide information, peruse
related information, and plan the trip.
Working With Museums
AN A to Z ARTICLE
Report from the Effective Strategies for Working with Homeschoolers
session at the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural
Museums (ALHFAM) Conference. By Debi Richter.
Ms.
Frizzle
Unfortunately, institutions only recognize the value of the experience
if it can measured, categorized, or otherwise documented.
(Please don't get me started on accountability.)
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Atlases for Students
AN A to Z SHOP
Top selling atlases for kids and older students from Maps.com.
Car Games
AN A to Z ARTICLE
Playing games with kids can make a long car trip both pleasant
and educational. Print this out to take along!
Dinosaur Field
Trips
AN A to Z RESOURCE
Places where you can go and see dinosaurs up close.
Free Curriculum
and Field Trips
AN A to Z RESOURCE
A sortable database for free curriculum and field trip ideas.
Aviation
Museum Locator
Find a place in Canada, The UK or the USA where you can experience
flight history.
Car-Schooling
Many home educators take advantage of time spent in the car to
learn a variety of subjects through games, CDs and audio tapes.
This list is designed so that families can share ideas, resources,
and activities for learning while traveling.
Fruit
Bats, Cats, and Naked Mole Rats: Lifelong Learning at the Zoo
Take into consideration your child's learning style when visiting
a zoo.
Factory Tours USA
A site devoted to providing information about factory tours.
The unique feature of our site is that our visitors can access
our system to add information about factory tours they have visited.
Family
Travel Files
World wide vacation ideas, though some of these might be right
in your home town!
Free
Field Trips
Trained tour leaders modify the field trips to be grade appropriate.
The field trips are 60-90 minutes in length and are limited to
30 participants per tour - although this number varies by location.
Museums on
Main Street
Brings rural Americans one-of-a-kind access to prestigious Smithsonian
exhibitions and first-rate educational programs.
Museumstuff.com
A staggering database of museums all over the world.
Outdoor Adventure
Lessons in survival in the school of nature. Links to adventure
camps for homeschoolers.
OpenRoadTV
The Travelerçs Video Guide to the American West. Find and view some very interesting places to take your kids out West.
Roadside America
- Guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions
A travel guide to more than 6,000 offbeat attractions, tourist
traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Often on the way to an
"educational" site, you wind up learning something
anyway at one of these places you just happen by.
Student
Group Tour Magazine
A free publication that is published three times a year with
a focus on student and youth travel throughout the United States
and Canada. Download the previous issue here in pdf format.
Teaching with
Historic Places
Uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National
Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies,
geography, civics, and other subjects.