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50 Keep Me Homeschooling Activities During the Long Cold Winter Days

November 23, 2013 | 6 Comments
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Today, I have 50 winter activities for homeschooling. Grab more ideas on my page winter season unit study.

Hoping to have a few activities to pull of out my bag when the kids are bored and the days are long and cold, I rounded up some activities to keep us learning.

50 Keep Me Homeschooling Activities During the Long Cold Winter Days

Some of them are easy and don’t take quite as long and others a little more involved.

We always keep back some chalk pastels too and our easy books for doing seasonal pastels.

Whether you want art, some reading or hands-on ideas, you’ll love this roundup of 50 learning activities.

Types of Frost Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Winter Lapbook Cover @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Pluswhat are the winter months minibook @ Tiina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Grab these fun minibooks on my Winter Unit Study and free lapbook page.

Bird Video Art Course for All Ages

Winter Activities for All Ages

Besides the fun hands-on globe to make below, there are many crafts too.

12 side globe about Antarctica

Construct a 12 sided globe to display facts about Antarctica @ Crayola.Com

Design a winter landscape with long shadows @ Crayola.Com

CP439 

CP snow-mosaic-winter-craft-photo

Create a snowy self-portrait mosaic @ Family Fun Crafts.

Grab some free easy winter worksheets @ All Kids Network

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Snowman Pack Get your FREE activity bundle!

virtual snowman

Virtual Build a Snowman

  Have a snow date @ Martha Stewart

Have a Snow date 
 polkadotmasonjars

Do a glitter polka dot mason jar @ A Bubbly Life

Grab a free frosty blend sorting game @ Heather’s Heart.

CP Frosty Blend Fun
Homeschool Geography - DIY Lava Lamp @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus-1

DIY Lava Lamp

Hands-on Learning Activities

Grab a Free Winter Ecology Teacher’s Guide Nice.

Glacier Winter Educator Guide @ Tinas Dynamic Homeschool PlusGlacier Winter Educator Guide 2 @ Tinas Dynamic Homeschool Plus
candy

Make candy crystals @ Science Sparks

 

In addition, add a fun unit study on the history of science with beautiful literature.

winter globes

Make a DIY ice globe lantern

50 Keep Me Homeschooling Activities During the Long Cold Winter Days

Make frozen watercolor ice cubes @ Learn Play Imagine

Frozen Watercolor Ice Art (1)-1

3 Fun Cocoa Winter Hands on Science Activities

Make toilet roll snowman using tiny sock for hats @ Red Ted Art

toilet roll snowman craft

 

 

Furthermore, winter is a great time to do art. Pair art with history in this fun study.

Chocolate-Snow-Balls

Make chocolate snowball cookies @ tasteofhome

DIY Handwarmers

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Also, learning music is fun to do this time of the year. I love all these choices for learning about music at home by this homeschool mom.

Just what we need for teaching multiple children.

cookie-envelopes

Printable Cookie Envelopes

Make DIY Snow Globes @ Refresh Renew

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 Milk tags

Milk Tag Snowman

Easy paper straw snowflakes @ Echoes of Laughter

 Paper Straw Snowflakes

CP pine-needle-instructions craft

Easy Pine Needle Craft @ Live Craft Eat

Make Pinecone Fire Starters

pine cone fire starter
Medieval Video Art Course Semester 1

Your kids will also love learning about Medieval History through art.

Crayon-Art

Crayon Art

Coffee Filter Snowflakes @ The Pink Couch

CP snowflakes coffee filters

Finally, add a movie and a book from another one of my favorite providers Literary Adventures for Kids.

https://www.literaryadventuresforkids.com/p/the-little-prince-online-book-club?affcode=168584_izgghx15
https://www.literaryadventuresforkids.com/p/there-are-rocks-in-my-socks-said-the-ox-to-the-fox-online-nature-book-club?affcode=168584_izgghx15
https://www.literaryadventuresforkids.com/p/the-rocket-that-flew-to-mars-online-nature-book-club?affcode=168584_izgghx15

Cp Making Snow Dough

Making Snow Dough

How to Explore Melting Ice

 make your own snow paint

Make Your Own Snow Paint @ One Little Project

Ice Sculptures @ Not Just Cute

CP Ice Sculptures

 gold-glitter-dipped-jars-diy

DIY Gold Dipped Jars

Snowman in a match box

 Snowman in a Match Box

snowmanpizza

Snowman Pizza. And you have supper made!

Make an iceberg

 Do an Iceberg Experiment

gemstonetitle

Create an indoor gemstone nature table

DIY Fingerless Gloves by Shop Ruby Jean @ The 36th Avenue

 DIY fingerless gloves

blue-nature-notebook-graphic

Grab some more free nature printables for your notebook @ Our Journey Westward

Winter Nature Scavenger Hunt Exploration & Printable @ Teach Beside Me

Winder Nature Scavenger Hunt Printable

Winter-Fun-Chalk-Pastel-Tutoriale

Winter Fun with Pastels

Make snow ice cream

make snow ice cream

diy_winter-wonderland-art

Family Handprints Winter Wonderland @  Lisa Leonard Blog

Make an ice sun catcher

ice sun catcher

family bingo printable

Family Bingo

Edible Winter Snowman

Edible Winter Snowman

Flowers Printable Lesson

When you are tired of winter, use this free educator’s guide about flowers & birds

DIY Winter Diorama @ Bloesem Kids

winter forest diy diorama DIY Winter Diorama @ Bloesem Kids

Long WinterLapbook by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Long Winter Lapbook/Little House Series @ Marine Corps Nomads

Do some Folk Art Lessons and here for lessons.

Four-Season-Landscapes-
mitten wreath

Mitten Wreath

       

Free Penguins Lapbook

Free Penguin Lapbook

Also, check out:

Free Unit Study: Inuit/Arctic

Winter Craft Ideas for Middle School

Winter Season Unit Study

 50 Keep Me Homeschooling Activities During the Long Cold Winter Days @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

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Free Fall Unit Study Ideas– For Older Kids Too

September 22, 2013 | 7 Comments
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I have free fall unit study ideas for older kids today. Also, I have this page Fall Unit Study {Pumpkins, Leaves, Corn, & More} for more fall ideas.

If I close my eyes and wish real hard, cool air may blow into my back yard here in Texas.

Though today is officially the start of fall, the truth of it is that I am sitting here typing this in my shorts and sandals.

However, I’ve rounded up some free fall unit study ideas and some of older kids too.

Whenever cool weather gets here, we always take time to do something special. It could be simple poetry reading or a craft or two.

Last year, heaven forbid, we don’t cover an apple unit before we complete homeschooling, we finally did one.

Free Fall Unit Study Ideas

This year, since we are focused on South America some poetry and delish sounding fall recipes are looking good.

So I decided to round up some free resources and construct a unit study for you.

Too, because there seems to be a gazillion things for preschoolers, (you know I love them) but not many free resources to include the older kids, I have included some ideas for them too.

Even if you aren’t a unit study lover, I know everybody likes to get off the beaten path and this gives some variety and pizzazz to the day when you need it and well, it’s FREE. Have to love that.

Free Fall Unit Study Planning Ideas | Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Free Fall Homeschool Unit Study Ideas

I am using one of my planning pages from my Unit Study Planner to show you how ideas can be taken from an idea to a study topic.

You can see above at how I fleshed out my thoughts and I still did not have enough boxes to cover a few facts under history too.

More Fall Ideas for Teens

  • How to Make Pumpkin Spice Body Scrub & 7 Fall DIY Crafts For Teens

The life of Johnny Appleseed could make for a mini geography report on the states he traveled through without making it babyish.

First, there are many subtopics that can fit under fall and some of them are:

  • leaves,
  • trees,
  • pumpkins,
  • autumn-flowering plants,
  • migration, affect of weather on animals,
  • apples,
  • early time keeping,
  • sundials,
  • fall fruits,
  • even wine making or picking grapes,
  • getting sap from a sugar maple tree; and
  • making syrup.

Sometimes just a fact or two about the subtopics can spur the creative juices in both you and your children. Everybody will want to study something different each year to keep it lively.

Next, look at a few of these quick facts or ideas for each subtopic.

Awesome Autumn Vocabulary

Vocabulary ideas for learning about studying about fall for both younger and older children.

  • equinox
  • conifer/deciduous
  • seasonal growth
  • camouflage
  • sugar maple tree
  • Fall or Autumn?
  • supply/demand regarding farming commodities like corn
  • enzymes
 

Autumn Animal Study/Quick Facts

Some oral narration or a mini report focused on one of these animals would work for your animal lover.

Arctic Fox –  It’s fur is brown in the summer to match its surroundings, but in the fall, it sheds it fur and grows a new white fur for camouflage in the upcoming months.

  • Look at my Winter Season Unit Study to learn about the Arctic Fox.

Frogs – In the spring, they are part of the pond food web. In fall, they move onto land and become part of the meadow food web.

  • Look at my Frogs and Toads Unit Study to learn more about frogs.

Dormouse – It feeds eagerly in fall to store up body fat for the winter

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Autumn Tree Study

Coniferous Forests – Pines and firs make up coniferous forests. These trees are evergreen providing shelter for animals all year long.

Deciduous trees – Their leaves fall off, but their berries, fruit and nuts provide food for the animals in the coming winter.

Maple Sugar – How to tap a maple sugar tree for sap.

Fall Flowering Plants

How does a scientist study in the fall? Preserving plants now to study later.

Do a hands on project and some nature art by sketching the plants, then putting them between two white sheets of construction paper and put a heavy weight on it and wait.

Retrieve them in the dead of winter when there are fewer plants to study and observe.

A chrysanthemum is normally a fall flowering plant and the topic could make a plant study.

Look at my Unit Study Historic Trees to put a history slant on studying about trees.

Fungi Great Decomposers

Field mushrooms – During the fall, field mushrooms spring up overnight in damp pastures and meadows.  Great topic for older students.

History in Autumn

The Ford Motor Company introduced the Model T in October, 1908. Check out the free printable and information.

The Panama Canal was turned back over to Panama in the fall. This would make an excellent topic for older students concerning the engineering feat of this project.

Links: Fall Printables & Lesson Ideas

  • Look at Harvest of the Month Educator’s Corner to tie in an health element or study.
Fall Apple GrowingFall Apple Printing
  • This site, Yakima Valley Museum has a 32 page download A is for Apple with the ideas and information pictured above for an easy craft for the younger kiddos and some for older kids.
  • Fun Autumn Internet Hunt for those that just want to enjoy and not write.

One of the links is not working, but the others are on this scavenger hunt around the net about autumn things. The YouTube video is a math rap song by a teacher teaching perimeter. I ‘m impressed. But I am easily impressed because BELIEVE me you don’t want me singing, much less doing a math rap.

  • Fall Poetry
  • Easy matching fall vocabulary printable
Decomposing
  • Free Lesson Plan/Background Information for Older Students to Learn about What happens to all those dying leaves.

The decomposition column looks like a great idea for a fun and easy hands on project too.

  • This next site has some nice printable flashcards for the younger kids. Click on the pictures on that site to download.
  • Here is an adorable recipe card and canning labels.
Our Journey Westward
  • Fun Notebooking Pages .
  • Check out this Lesson Plan with clickable diagrams about trees. Nice and useful.
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  • Helpful pdf on the background of solstice and equinox and making a sun model.
  • Another very useful lesson plan is the Exploring the Solar System toolkit.
  • Lesson on understanding leaves and photosynthesis with answers again. Thank you.
Handprint Autumn Tree Craft
(Photo Credit: Free Kids Craft)
  • Nice keepsake autumn hand print idea
  • And oh my goodness! More chocolate. Dare I admit that I am a football fan too? So when autumn comes around, that is what you catch me doing on Sundays. Look at this recipe from Sweet Simple Stuff.
Football Snack Mix
(Photo Credit: Sweet Simple Stuff)

Autumn Music

We love classical music in our home and so we listened to The Four Seasons by Vivaldi on YouTube and that would make a great music focus.

Listen to Autumn at 20:59 or close to that number.

And then finally don’t forget that I have two full page here of free printables.

I have poetry, lapbooks, apples and art.

What do you think? Either you are hungry, ready to be inspired, or exhausted from reading all these ideas.

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Do you have some fall activities you are doing or lined up?

Fall Ya'll Ideas for A Fall Unit Study - Ideas for Older Kids too. Click here to grab them!

Look at these other ideas:

  • Fall Homeschool Learning Resources For Middle School
  • Fall Y’all:Pumpkin Pie in a Bag (Easy Homeschool Co-op Idea)
  • 21 Hands On Homeschooling Ideas to Keep the Winter Chill Off {Activities for Tots to Teens},
Free Fall Unit Study Ideas - For Older Kids Too.

Hugs and tuck this away for when you need it, love ya,

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Review of What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization

August 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment
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I loved doing a review of what every child needs to know about Western Civilization.

My obsession with wanting to teach history creatively stems from a quote I read by H.G. Wells.

“Narrow history teaching of our school days was mainly an uninspiring and partially forgotten list of national kings or presidents.“

Avoiding uninspiring lists and meeting the challenge of dodging inside-the-box history curriculum has not always been easy.

So I was happy to review What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization by BrimWood Press.

I will just tell you now that I won’t hide my obvious preference for this curriculum.

It fills a much needed niche in the homeschooling community, but it is so much more than a history curriculum. More on that in a minute.

What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization by BrimWood Press

I glanced through all the fascinating and detailed pictures.

The BrimWood press bundle I received included:

  • 1 Guide: What Every Child Needs to Know about Western Civilization.
  • 1 Calendar Quest which is a historical narrative.
  • 1 Color the Western World.

I am especially giddy about this curriculum.

It is the first one that I have used that covers history in broad strokes.

How broad? Well, in just 12 – 14 lessons you cover 5,000 years of history.

Review of What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization by BrimWood Press

I had to read that twice. I might add there are 2 more lessons, but one is an introduction and one is a review.

Details can be fascinating, but they can get in the way too.

Not all details are necessary to understanding and grasping the full picture. Sometimes it just does not matter. I think kids know that too.

Middle School Homeschool History

I have covered history through unit studies, through a four year cycle and through the eyes of individuals that lived in each time period, I couldn’t wait to get started using it.

This teaches a story of how the calendar came to us which is how What Every Child Needs to Know about Western Civilization teaches. Clever.

As the fictional characters, Lindsie and Evan travel through time in a refrigerator box, Tiny eagerly tuned in,

Strangely enough Father Time always seems to be around to explain about how a seven day week came to us or how the constellations were located in the sky.

It didn’t hurt either that Mr. Awesome joined us for this review and read aloud to us. I highly recommend using your highschooler for a read aloud if you have one.

I am happy that my high school teen joined us for this review .

It allowed me to evaluate how extensive it was for him a high school teen.

Homeschool History

With the additional activities listed in the manual that include research, questions concerning worldview, introduction to the traits of each civilization and the contributions made by each civilization, I certainly think that a novice or highschooler could use the manual to discover them.

Too, if you have highschooler who is burned out on history, then using the manual can breathe life back into your day.

The wide scope that it covers keeps it so not intimidating.

As for the reader or Calendar Quest, it is written to an elementary age child. 

However, there were some characters along Lindsie and Evan’s trek that Mr. Awesome and I had obscurely heard of. Discovering those vague history characters was an unexpected benefit of Mr. Awesome reading to Tiny. 

Mr. Awesome claimed the reader was too young for him and it was, but then again, it is right on grade level like the publisher claims for using with a younger child. Tiny enjoyed the humor in the reader and I found a way for my older child to join us.

What I love about What Every Child Needs to Know about Western Civilization.

Like I mentioned before, it is so much more than a history program. Listing both the history features that I loved and the other things, I don’t want to miss giving you any nifty detail.

  • I find the lesson plan layout very useful. You know my obsession with expecting a lot from a teacher’s manual and how some manuals are nothing more than an answer sheet. This is an excellent and well organized manual or guide with practical tips. You see exactly how to cover each lesson.
  • One more significant point about this manual is that it is BOTH teacher and student guide. You use it with ALL of your children. Thank you BrimWood Press for understanding that we are teaching multiple ages of children and that we try to avoid insanity by not using 3 or 4 different teacher’s manuals.
  • Use this one manual for multiple ages of children. By the way when I find a curriculum like this that I can use with multiple ages of children, I try to divide the price by the number of children using it so I can see what I am actually paying for each child per year. Then divide it again into half because it is both teacher manual and student manual to get a true cost. That is how I arrive at the value of a curriculum that I use with multiple children.

Teacher Manual Features

Review of What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization by BrimWood Press
  • I’m not done yet with the manual because it is so comprehensive and I have to tell you about the layout. The first page of the lesson has a box called Teacher Preview and another one called Objectives. Oh YES – I am in organization bliss! Give me a purpose for the lesson and I have a direction for the day.
  • Here is another sweet bite on this program because you know I said it was so much more than a history program.  It has geography and a snip of language arts too. This especially feeds my desire to teach out of the box because I can include any subject I want to and apply those subjects when I teach about a topic. It’s more meaningful to include details when they are wanted.

Teaching Helps

  • The next part of the lesson is called History in a Nutshell. It includes information on the significant contributions of that time period along with instructions on coloring the stickers for the younger kids that are included in this curriculum. Information on filling out the 14 Hats of History which are the 14 periods you are striving to memorize is included in this section. Several lessons include helpful background information of that time period. You do not have to research extra information if you do not want to because it is included. This part appeals to me so that I can determine if those foundational pegs or key events are covered when teaching that time period. This part is the reason I see this manual being practical too for the first time history teacher or student who finds history boring and wants just the general sweeping ideas.
  • Between the stickers and Color the Western World coloring book there is plenty to choose from for both your younger and older children.

History in Broad Strokes

  • Key events that you add on the back of the cards and details that you fill in on the front of each card as you go along help to solidify the timeline of history. We followed along in each lesson plan as you are encouraged by the curriculum to try to put your hats in chronological order. By using both the front and back of the card, your kids come away with a fresh, unique and overall picture of history. Certainly, a doable goal to memorize all 14 time periods. This is a refreshing change from all the details that you may be teaching when using a four year history cycle curriculum.

I won’t be giving up my copy of What Every Child Needs to Know about Western Civilization any time soon as I plan on using this for years to come.

It is a keeper in my home, and I plan on going over it again both as a standalone history curriculum and to use as a review tool.

My boys still need to see the flow of history and a way to tie it all together.

I tend to be organized overboard when it comes to details because we love history, but I restrained myself from delving into them like the curriculum suggested because it defeats the purpose of what I am trying to do.

Don’t pitch your slow moving curriculum, just use What Every Child Needs to Know about Western Civilization when you want to take it up a notch.

Thank you BrimWood Press as I confess my absolute love and bias for a one of kind history program.

Where to Buy What Every Child Needs to Know about Western Civilization and Product Facts at a Glance.

Product Name: What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization, Calendar Quest and Color the Western World.

Ages: 5th – 8th grade, but I see a practical use for highschoolers who struggle with history.

Type of Product:  Physical product.

What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization is an awesome homeschool history program covering history in broad strokes. You’ll love how quickly you can cover 5000 years of history in a few weeks. Check it out at Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You’ll love these other history helps:

  • 35 Simple But Powerful American History Homeschool Resources K to 12
  • 15 EASY History Ideas for Homeschooled Kids Who Don’t Like School
  • How to Create a Creditworthy American History Course (& resources)
  • Amazing Hands-on History Activities for 14 Ancient Empires (free notebook cover too)

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FBI Unit Study:Federal Reserve Bank Field Trip & Free Resources

May 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment
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After calling the branch office of the FBI, yep I do things like that, to see if I could plan a field trip there, I decided to take their advice and plan a field trip to the Federal Reserve Bank instead. The FBI has a local outreach community and though it sounded nice to have a special agent come and talk to our group, the outreach coordinator felt it was more beneficial to see a federal entity in action. Also, because my focus was aimed toward my highschoolers this would add to their credit for economics.

I have to admit at first that visiting the Federal Reserve Bank hadn’t even crossed my mind and I wasn’t even sure it sounded so appealing. I would have to decide first where I stood on monetary policy before I could ask my teens.  Economics, beyond budgeting was not my favorite subject in school either.

However, this field trip did not disappoint and stacked up high against others we have taken. You see those gates in front of the eagle? Nobody can get in unless the security guard lets you in. Because we are talking literally about 9 billion dollars that could be sitting in the bank at one time, we had to pass security checks much like the ones at airport screenings.

Did I mention our seniors who just turned 18 enjoyed savoring their new found adulthood by show off their driver’s license for identification?

Too, we were told ahead of time that there was no photography in a lot of places because it is the actual operations of the money handling. I managed to get as many pictures as were allowed.

So we snapped a few pictures early morning in front of the secured building before we went inside to find out exactly what is the function of the Federal Reserve Bank.

The first floor had the money separating machines. We learned how money was shredded after it no longer was able to be read by machines and how other money was counted and stored on robot pallets. Then, we went upstairs to this room. By the way, did you know they use the term note and not dollars in the bank? It makes sense though to me because in my legal background, we use the terms promissory note to represent money.  I found that interesting but apparently my boys didn’t.  Whatever.

They were asking more questions like what is the bank’s greatest national security threat and did they have bullet proof glass. The boys apparently have seen too many movies and are thinking the bank is prepared for a “bank heist”.  They assured them that a bank heist was not on their list of threats but that their greatest threat is a terrorist attack. A blow to the bank would threaten the stability of the economy.

The room pictured above is used by consulates or other important heads of companies as they meet together to discuss their interest in either doing business in the area or if they are out of country, they may want to make connections here in the states. So the room serves as a place to work and collaborate.

I never knew that the Federal Reserve Bank did so much more than cover loans for banks.

Then we were taken to another large conference room where consulates and businessmen meet too. We all got to sit around the table and thankfully Tiny asked what the button was under the table as he thought about pushing it. It was a panic button. If it was pushed, security would be on us in few seconds. Did I mention this field trip is probably best for older kids?

We were shown a short film presentation on what the Federal Reserve Bank actually does because a  lot of us were still foggy about it. Did you know that the employees are not federal? It was set up by Congress in 1913 but the employees are bank employees even though it’s overseen by Congress. It is quasi-governmental and tax dollars do not pay for them. Instead, they return money to the treasury.

One cool thing the kids enjoyed learning is where their money traveled from. Looking at this bill above and the left is the alphabet letter and number of the Federal Reserve Bank that put it into operation. Try it with your kids. Take out some money and find out which branch it started out at and how think how did it get to you.

I bet not many people know who these folks are either but they make all the decisions for the economy, including setting interest rates here in the United States.

Lastly, we were given more free resources and packages than we could hardly carry out of the building. Guess what? You can order them for free too. (Click Classroom Resources and Order Form for the blank form) I am telling you, there are enough free resources here for your home or classroom that you could teach about economics, the federal government, monetary policy and threats to security that would keep you busy for weeks.

A nice surprise to round out our experience was when everybody received a tube of old shredded money.

We especially loved learning how to tell apart counterfeits or fakes from good money.  When they told us that the counterfeit money was sent to the Secret Service, the boys decided that may be another topic they have to read about. I wish I could have taken more photographs inside because it was such an enriching and rewarding field trip. Learning about the money operation and function of the Federal Reserve Bank that serves as a quasi-governmental agency was so much more than I knew.

Another idea for a field trip on this topic besides visiting any federal office is to visit the U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing. There are only 2  locations though in the United States. One is in Washington, D.C. and the other one is here in Texas in Forth Worth. It is a great place for a field trip if you are ever close.

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