Homeschool Field Trip Ideas are Great for Other Families, Too

When you homeschool, the learning never really stops. Every trip or visit to the grocery store is an opportunity for learning.

But sometimes it’s worthwhile to add more deliberate excursions to your homeschool curriculum. Or if you don’t home school, planning “field trips” with your kids can still be a lot of fun.

Bethany Ishee has a guest post with some great ideas for field trips for homeschooling. She talks about virtual field trips to places you can’t actually visit in person because of budget or distance, everyday trips with an educational spin on them and other events and places you can visit with your kids.

She’s also got some tips that will make these trips easier, potentially less expensive and more educational for all.

What are some of your favorite field trips for kids? We love the library and our local children’s and art museums.

[Photo via Bethany Ishee.]

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Road Trip Printables

With summer coming on in the Northern Hemisphere, I feel like we all need some fun activities we can do with one kid at home or a bunch in a classroom when it’s too hot to go outside (I guess you can say the same for if it’s too cold to go out in the Southern Hemisphere, too).

This disaster island Lego challenge from Lego Librarian was designed to be done with a Lego club, but you can do it in a classroom if you have bricks handy, or at home with one or two kids.

The idea is that first the kids each design their own island, with a given amount of time where that is the only prompt.

Then each person draws a disaster card. You can use the ones from Lego Librarian or make up your own. These are things like there’s a storm coming so you need to build a strong shelter, or there’s a rescue plane so you need to build something so they will see you.

There’s a whole bunch of ideas, which should get kids thinking creatively about ways to alter their islands for whatever situations you throw at them.

If you’re doing this with just one or two kids, the idea is the same, or you could have them draw several cards over a session if they want to keep the fun going.

This is a great low prep STEM activity for kids that should get them thinking creatively about how to solve problems. It’s a great idea to have the kids explain what they did to solve their particular problem, too, and why they think that will help.

Even though it won’t be a surprise what’s going to happen after the first time you play it, this is one you can do again and again because the kids will probably draw different cards.

Get all the details and a printable list of challenge prompts at Lego Librarian.

[Photo: Lego Librarian]

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