Beyond Museums and Zoos Homeschool Field Trip Form

Pondering the possibilities of field trips in South America has my brain racing about new field trip ideas and places. But before I scoot on to that adventure, I want to share today my ideas for beyond museums and zoos homeschool field trip form.

After you have homeschooled for a few years, you realize that some places are what I call keepers for each year. They are places you don’t mind visiting again and again like museums and a zoo. But as time marches on and kids grow, you need ideas for other places.

So I created a homeschool field trip reference chart that is divided by season that you can easily add to your 7 step homeschool planner. I added 10 ideas for each season.

In listing the ideas, I tried to avoid some places, not all though that would be pretty obvious in a particular season. You know about them already and besides you probably have traditions or will have them in each season.

For example, we had one annual event in January to Incredible Pizza that all of our kids loved. As adults we could never figure out why not just one, but all ages, young and old loved that trip!! The place is huge and had lots of games, an indoor skating rink, car races and bowling. We just couldn’t figure out why it was more special than other places like that we had visited. It became our group’s tradition in January.

Another thing to remember about field trips as you enter more relaxed homeschooling is that not every field trip do you need to meet educational objectives.

I know groups are different from area to area, but in forming my field trip group it was understood that our main goal was socialization. I learned as a hard-nosed teacher that learning didn’t have to be so hard and it was better remembered in a fun setting.

Meeting educational goals is tops on our list, but it runs second to our main goal of socialization. The families in my group preferred our field trip time to be one where the kids had time to interact, form lasting friendships and not be about hearing long-winded lectures.

Beyond Museums & Zoos. 10 Field Trip Ideas for Each Season

Surprisingly, when I relaxed as a teacher and tried not to drill my kids on everything we learned, they too relaxed and wanted to learn more about the places we visited.

I hope you enjoy this form as I plan for a few more field trip forms, but wanted to get this to you as the new year started. You know how I take my time in creating my forms because they each come from a special place or from my experience in my journey that I want you to know about. So I really want them useful and practical too.

Download Homeschool Field Trip Reference Chart Here.