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Homeschooling Field Trip Resources
Field trips... homeschoolers love them! The links on this page are general field trip ideas and helps. To find field trip destinations in your state, use the map at the bottom of the page.
Factory Tours USA - This site celebrates American imagination and industry. What better way to appreciate those qualities than to visit and tour America at work. The information on this site is maintained by many people throughout the United States who enjoy visiting American industry ()
Field Trip Factory - If you are like me and love field trips, you will find the Field Trip Factory a useful resource. Their goal is to offer FREE, life-skill based learning opportunities to educators and community organizers everywhere there is a need. The easiest way to use the site is to use the "Field Trip Finder" on the top right side of the page. Input your zip (or the zip or an area you will be visiting) and see what is available. (T)
Field Trip Forms - ABC Teach has forms available to help plan field trips, including trip-specific checklists, name tags, and summary report forms. ()
Homeschool Field Trips - If you think of field trips as elaborate and costly excursions requiring enormous planning and being more for celebration than for genuine scholastic value, think again. Field trips are simply educational experiences that take place somewhere other than in your home, for whatever good and sufficient reason leads you there. Take control of the field trips in your homeschool experience with tips from this article. ()
Homeschool Field Trips - From EducationBug, this Homeschool Field Trips article is packed full of fun homeschool activities to participate in whether you want a homeschool activity cheap and close to home, or something more elaborate and far away. ()
Homeschooling Field Trips for Social Studies - Using homeschooling field trips for social studies can help ignite your child's passion for history and all things social studies. There are a myriad of ideas, many of which are free or low cost. ()
Tips for a Successful Field Trip - Tips from an experience field trip coordinator for planning a group field trip ()
Trekaroo - Trekaroo is the fun way to get the inside scoop on traveling with kids. We provide reviews of kid-friendly hotels, activities, and travel tips for family fun. (Y, M, O, T)
Virtual Field Trips - If real life field trips aren't possible for you right now, there are plenty of virtual field trips that can supplement and enhance your studies. From Kim Foley, the author of The Big Pocket Guide to Using & Creating Virtual Field Trips, Field-Trips.org offers a variety of free virtual field trips that have been created by teachers with TourMaker© software, a virtual field trip creator. (T)
