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10 Best Ways to Transport Homeschool Curriculum {Gift Ideas Too}

November 19, 2019 | Leave a Comment
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Life is busy and learning is spent more and more on the go. Too, learning should be flexible and can happen anywhere. Whether you want to change the place your kids learn like to the park or are planning a vacation, you’ll love these 10 best ways to easily transport homeschool curriculum.

ONE/ Not just any old backpack.

A backpack is a good option for each kid and each kid can keep his books and supplies separate. Besides we all love school supplies and backpacks are great ways to pack it all up and head to the park.

If you’re going on a longer trip like we did overseas we used the Coleman and Swiss Gear backpacks. They were large, sturdy, and I carried our mobile printer and big laptop in the ones we bought.

Too, if you’re going to do a lot of traveling, a sturdier backpack to hold laptops and printers is best. An inexpensive one works elsewhere and is perfect for park days.

10 Best Ways to Transport Homeschool Curriculum. When learning on the go, grab one of these nifty tools for transporting homeschool curriculum @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus.

TWO/ Reusable canvas tote/grocery bag.

You can use those plastic bags you get at the grocery store, but I love the canvas totes and some come with pockets so you can have a place to store your supplies.

Transporting Homeschool Curriculum

Put the books and supplies in the tote and we’re off to the park or beach on a pretty day to learn outside.

THREE/ Not just any old milk crates, but collapsible milk crates.

Milk crates are an inexpensive option to carry your curriculum, but when we did that we still had to find a place to put our milk crates. That meant they normally took up space on the picnic table top.

It still works, but I love the collapsible milk crates. Take out your supplies and collapse the crates to put out of your way. Nifty!!

FOUR/Clipboards with storage.

Clipboards with storage are hard to beat when you want to pick up and go for the day.

Clipboards are built in desks and make for a great tool when your kids won’t have a table or don’t want to learn at a table.

When my kids had to spend long days at the hospital with me as I took care of my sick husband, we changed out activities each day in the storage part of the clipboard.

Pick up and go and your homeschooling on the go is ready to move with you

Storing Curriculum on the Go

FIVE/Small free standing tote.

Then I love this storage tote because it’s both free standing and has handles. When you don’t need to carry a lot, it’s the perfect size.

If you need just a few pads of paper and a place to store your supplies upright, this expanding paper folio is the perfect answer.

SIX/ Nifty storage tote with a divided tray.

This next storage box is great for keeping supplies organized. It has a removable tray which is one of the best features.

You can put crafts or small supplies in the divided tray and take out the tray to use while learning on the go. I used something like this when we rented a house in the mountain for a month.

It was small enough to pack in the car, but kept small things organized for easy reach.

SEVEN/Wheeled cart.

I have owned so many of these wheeled carts through the years, I can’t even count. They have been worth every penny I spent on them.

This one we used at the park too when we wanted to stay longer.

Since it’s plastic and sturdy I didn’t mind rolling it around the park. You can easily add dividers to it.

Eight/Wheeled cart, but better for teaching a co-op.

Depending on your needs, I found that the wheeled cart with storage pockets below was better when I was teaching a co-op.

The pockets on the outside are perfect when you need to easily put your hands on your supplies. It’s the perfect desk on the go.

Portable Homeschool Curriculum

NINE/ Clear project cases.

These project cases have two advantages. They are clear and 12 x 12.

I love clear containers so we can see what is in them and then we don’t need something real big when we take a project on the go.

This is great for carrying a lapbook or notebook that is work in progress. It stores all the small pieces.

TEN/ The deluxe of them all.

This last rolled storage tote has to be the most deluxe of all portable storage with tons of pockets to organize all your homeschool curriculum.

Don’t forget to grab all the fun ways to organize school supplies on the go. I’m eyeing this nifty pencil storage for older kids. I love the fact that it’s not baby-ish.

Homeschool Learning on the Go Tools

These chair back pockets are great to take on the go and fill with your supplies.

I love them for vacation. It gives us a place to store our art supplies and few books. Fold and go and then store when you get to your “home for a week or month”.

Last, but certainly not least you can never have enough dry erase reusable pockets.

You can use them for activity pages, but also there is no limit to how you can use them. They store paint brushes, wipes, erasers and writing supplies.

Learning outside four walls is the best way to learn and our homeschool curriculum is important. Packing it for a short move or longer move requires the right portable storage tool.

You won’t have a problem finding the perfect fit with this round up of fun ways. You’ll also love these other tips.

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Hugs and love ya,

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7 Benefits of Virtual Field Trips that May Change Your Perspective

November 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment
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Virtual homeschool field trips were almost unheard of when I started planning field trips for our group of over 100 homeschool families. And I don’t think virtual field trips will ever replace the homeschool spirit and camaraderie we experience when we’re together. However, having experienced many unique circumstances and problems with field trips through my 19 years of homeschooling, I couldn’t wait to try FieldTripZoom for virtual field trips.


7 Benefits of Virtual Field Trips that May Change Your Perspective @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I was given FieldTripZoom free and I was paid for my time. However, paid for my time does not mean paid off. All opinions are my own and for sure I will always tell you what is on my mind. Not every product will get a positive review. Too, because I carefully sort through numerous offers for reviews,  it means I’m giddy about the product when I do accept it. Read my full disclosure here.


Using FieldTripZoom for many weeks I am tickled to share with you seven benefits of virtual field trips that may change your perspective.

1. When you homeschool an only.

Beginning to homeschool my first son, then homeschooling all of my kids and now back to homeschooling one child has been a huge adjustment for us. Experiencing a virtual field trip has allowed my only child to participate in activities without having to join another homeschool group.

I don’t feel like he is missing out on enriching field trips that his older brothers participated in.

2. When you have many young children.

A common problem when I planned was to be sure the local field trip location had a place to push a stroller. Sometimes that would eliminate places we could go to because they were not stroller friendly.

A mom, which has several young children couldn’t go unless she brought help. FieldTripZoom has virtual field trips for all ages. No need to pack those huge double strollers.

Gathering the kids around your laptop or desktop, which I recommend because the screen is normally bigger is not only a great break for mom, but it spares your sanity.

Virtual Field Trips – Mediocre to Memorable

3. When you have to be budget conscious. Who doesn’t have to be nowadays?

The next problem I experienced with our monthly field trips was the different budgets among the families.

A mom of an only child versus a mom that had multiple children obviously were looking at different dollar totals by the time they paid admission fee, gas and maybe lunch.

Paying a yearly fee of $49.95 per household as an “all inclusive” and without any limits on how many interactive programs you can watch is a huge advantage.

4. When you have middle and high school teens. The fun shouldn’t stop.

After our kids got older, they wanted field trips that were not babyish and rightly so. I love the fact that with 100s of live streaming events, it is up to my son to decide which level he is interested in viewing.

Some science topics he wanted to view the lower level because there were more hands-on things to view.

With other subjects like the American Civil War, he viewed the high school level because he was more interested in higher level topics.

Without any restrictions, he could have even choose to watch more than one level on one topic on the same day because they are at different times.

5. When you can see artifacts and talk to a specialist in person.

Oh sure they are lots of free virtual field trips, but there is a reason they are free.

However, if you want a guided tour, view artifacts like you would when you pay for a guided tour at a museum, be able to ask questions to the presenter or make comments like my son did, you’ll be delighted with FieldTripZoom.

FieldTripZoom has a huge edge because they are live. No, not prerecorded. There is a chat box to chat or to ask a question to the presenter. All of this made it more like an interactive classroom instead of just watching a free video.

More Homeschool Field Trips Resources

  • Free Editable Field Trip Tracking Guide for Homeschool Field Trips
  • Homeschool Field Trip Journal Page
  • Homeschool Field Trips – An Important Piece of the Educational Puzzle Part 1 + Free Field Trip Planning Page.
  • 22 Awesome Homeschool History Field Trips

Worthy of mention too is that your children can see an animal or artifacts up close without a lot of other kids crowding yours out of the way.

6. When you go to places from your home that you may not otherwise ever go to.

When I was in school, I could only read about places in other states. It’s the same problem when planning local field trips. You’re limited to local places or distances that families in your group are willing to drive to.

The Best Kind of Field Trips – No Planning!

On our virtual field trips we have learned about the giant Pacific octopus of Alaska, visited Virginia for Native American month and then on to the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum to name just a few of the places. At the bottom, I will list more places we plan on going this year.

7. Weak subjects can be reinforced or delved into deeper.

We are especially finding FieldTripZoom helpful to cover some topics Tiny struggles with and with some he wants to delve into deeper. With content partners from museums,  science centers, historical sites, zoos, a literary group and performing arts to name a few, we are stoked about setting our schedule for the rest of the year,

I didn’t forget to list a few of the upcoming programs we are eye balling and there are a lot of other programs in between these dates like wildlife week, astronomy week, DNA week and Holocaust week.


Nov 21 & 22, 2016 – The Comanche Code Talkers and D-Day
Dec 14, 2016 -Exploring the Scientific Method and the Wright Brothers First Flight
Jan 9, 2017 – Journey to the Center of the Earth


Virtual field trips are a way to bring the world up close for your children all from the comfort of your living room or dining room table.

I don’t have to choose either a field trip to a local location or a virtual field trip, we can have both.

Oh the Places You’ll Go! (okay, okay couldn’t resist that by Dr. Seuss).

Also, grab my free homeschool journal pages to use as you explore new places with FieldTripZoom!

Field Trip Journal 1
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Beyond Museums and Zoos Homeschool Field Trip Form

August 22, 2014 | 4 Comments
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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.

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Homeschool Field Trip Journal Pages

June 22, 2014 | 9 Comments
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I have been wanting to create some homeschool field trip journal pages for a while, but have been hesitant to create them.  Writing for most kids is something you have to sneak in.  So I have been mulling over even the smallest detail about the forms.  For the field trip pages I created that even meant  brainstorming the title.

I just couldn’t bring myself to name the pages Field Trip Report because it sounds so — well — like a report.  My sons enjoy writing for the most part and I want to keep it that way.  Finally, I settled on the title Field Trip Journals because I think there is freedom in the word journal for a budding writer.  It almost feels like you are not going to squash their creative ideas before they get started.  I appreciate some breathing room when I write and I extend that same liberty to my kids.

Instead of my sons reporting back to me, I prefer they want to write about our field trips.  Too, I wanted to use a more whimsical form so our kids could feel like they own it.

Homeschool Field Trip Journal
Field Trip Journal 1

I have created some boxes for them to write in and then created a few more smaller blank spaces if they wanted to share one or two more ideas.

Some kids are word whisperers and I was sort of that way growing up.  Jotting down a word or two that I heard lately either gave me a chuckle or invoked a serious side. 

More Homeschool Field Trip Resources

  • Free Editable Field Trip Tracking Guide for Homeschool Field Trips
  • 7 Benefits of Virtual Field Trips that May Change Your Perspective
  • Homeschool Field Trips – An Important Piece of the Educational Puzzle Part 1 + Free Field Trip Planning Page
  • 22 Awesome Homeschool History Field Trips

The most recent word my kids are getting a chuckle over is come-uppings.  Is that even a word?  I used it one time in talking to them and they haven’t quit saying it since then.  I don’t care if it’s a word or not because it gives them a cause to pause in the day about their vocabulary and a love of words.

Then we have kids, I have one too, that is a doodler, a scribbler and part designer.  Picture words reminds him of an event.  The blank space is big enough for a scribble or two even by big kids.

So the blank spaces allows your kids and mine to make the page their own.  Too, I didn’t want the pages too babyish so they don’t outgrow them by Kindergarten.

I have 2 pages that have more manly man color.  My boys have low tolerance for anything too colorful and I try to minimize the eye-rolling.  Then of course on the ones for girls, I go girl color crazy.  I have 2 color choices for them also.

I am excited about the forms because you know how much our kids enjoy field trips with other homeschoolers or just with the family.  It has always been the highlight of our month.

I hope this sparks a fun and whimsical side to writing for the kids because I think I give my boys enough reports to write about.

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