Posts Tagged ‘student travel’
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site “The greatest thing I have learned is how good it is to come home again.” Eleanor Roosevelt Welcome to the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, the site of Eleanor’s beloved Val-Kill cottage home in Hyde Park, NY. This site was established by congress in 1977 to commemorate the life and…
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Women’s Rights National Historical Park Located in Seneca Falls, New York, you will find the Women’s Rights National Historical Park. This park holds several different educational and historic buildings that help enlighten and educate guests on women’s rights and the path that got us to where we are today. Your group will be able to…
Read MoreElizabeth Cady Stanton House
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House “The general discontent I felt with women’s portion as wife, mother, housekeeper, physician, and spiritual guide, the chaotic conditions into which everything fell without constant supervision, impressed me with a strange feeling that some active measures should be taken to remedy the wrongs…of women.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Elizabeth Cady…
Read MorePrudence Crandall Museum
Prudence Crandall Museum Welcome to the Prudence Crandall Museum, a memorial center for the Nation’s first Academy for African-American young women. Sometimes called the Elisha Payne House, this historic house museum is the site of the first higher education academy for African Amerian young women and girls in New England, founded by Prudence Crandall in…
Read MoreBoston Women’s Heritage Trail
Boston Women’s Heritage Trail “Remember the Ladies” — Abigail Adams In 1989 a group of Boston Public School teachers, librarians, and their students brainstormed and inaugurated the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, a series of 13 different walks commemorating Boston’s most influential women. With over 200 women remembered on this series of trails, the entire project…
Read MoreHarriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center BE INSPIRED BY THE WOMAN WHOSE WORDS CHANGED THE WORLD Welcome to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, the non-traditional, conversational, and interactive museum dedicated to Harriet Beecher Stowe that is located in Hartford, Connecticut. Within this museum center, you will learn all about Stowe’s personal life as well as the impact…
Read MoreDutch Apple Dinner Theatre
Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre If your student group is headed to Lancaster or Hershey you MUST make a dinner-time stop at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, the highly popular dinner theater stop that has been putting on top quality Broadway-style productions for 33 years now. Enjoy a delicious American buffet spread, this award-winning food including…
Read MoreBest Destinations for 7th Grade Field Trips
7th Grade…that perfect year where students aren’t quite children and aren’t quite teenagers yet either…meaning they are interested in a wide variety of educational points and activities. You really can’t go wrong with any educationally-based field trip at this stage, but we do have certain suggestions that will spark the most interest out of your…
Read MoreThe National Archives
The National Archives Welcome to the National Archives, the iconic building where NARA, National Archives and Records Administration, displays some of the nation’s most important documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. In its totality, the National Archives holds permanent records created by the U.S. Congress, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal…
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Library of Congress Welcome to the Library of Congress, the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States, first founded in 1800. This is the world’s biggest library, as well as the de facto national library of the United States. The Library of Congress features tours, talks, and concerts regularly, as well as several ongoing…
Read MoreUS Marine Corps War Memorial
US Marine Corps War Memorial The memorial is dedicated to “the Marine dead of all wars and their comrades of other services who fell fighting beside them.” More commonly known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, this memorial park is located in the Arlington Ridge Park and depicts the iconic scene from Iwo Jima in 1945.…
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial …To the brave members of the U.S. Armed Forces who fought in the Vietnam War and were killed or missing in action. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial sits just north of the Lincoln Memorial on DC’s National Mall. This 2-acre memorial space chronologically lists the names of the 58,000 Americans who gave their…
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