Welcome

This blog started out as an exploration of field trips by grade level which a family can take to enrich their child's school curriculum. I originally started this for Charter School families, or any family, wanting to supplement with fun family field trips. Since then we have decided to home school, so the bent and flavor has changed. I will still post field trips, but also home school related posts. We have four kids who span 8 years. Two high school and two elementary. Our elementary kids are home schooled.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

New York City field trip

Ok, So I know I said it would be mostly local Colorado on here.... but, since we are doing a family field trip to NYC this summer, I thought I would share. Some of these places have links for teachers with ideas. Check them out.

Pretty much everything can be found as links on this page: http://www.newyorkpass.com/attractions/

Here is what you can do and what grade it enhances:
  1. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island,(free, ferry $) K, 2, 6
  2. Tenement Museum (also has stuff related to Industrial Revolution in America) (about $20 tours only) 2,6
  3. Historical Society of New York (low cost)(immigration, early eras of America) Colonial, Revolutionary, Immigration, 1,2,3,6
  4. American Museum of Natural History, ($20, $33 if you include the planetarium (grades 1,3, 6) well you can get any grade here k-6+
  5. as well as the New York Hall of Science in Queens (low cost) K-6+ hands on Science museum
  6. Native American Museum, (free) 2,3
  7. Bodies, the Exhibition (human body biology) (moderate$) 1,2,3,4, Biology (while K does do some Human body, this may be too much for a younger child, use discretion). 
  8. Historic Richmond Town, Colonial America living history museum on Staten Island,(very inexpensive) 1,3
  9. Terracotta Warriors,($?) China 3rd




No comments:

Post a Comment