Make field trips fun and stress-free with these 8 helpful field trip tips for teachers. Learn how to prepare for a field trip, plan efficient transportation, create meaningful activities, and more! Get the most out of your students' experience with these easy tricks. 1. Inform the parents and Chaperones of Your Trip This goes without…
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Food Fix for Less
So you're driving down the road and have been for eight hours. You see a sign up ahead that says "McDonald's," and you're hungry so you pull onto the off-ramp. But you don't have to. It may seem like the only options for food, while you're traveling, are either cheap and very unhealthy or too…
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Glamping – How & Where
By definition, glamping is the practice of "glamorous camping." This adventurous yet luxurious way of enjoying the great outdoors gained popularity some years back. Now that it has spread to nearly every corner of the world, your student group can get fantastic deals on glamping yourself! From Airbnb-style situations to campgrounds, resorts, and national or…
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Best Times to Visit
Have you ever gone on summer vacation and the city you had so looked forward to visiting turned out to be crowded, unbearably hot, and overpriced? It happens to the best of them, more specifically during the high seasons. Every city/destination has different high and low seasons and although they don't always correspond with each other,…
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What to Pack for…
Depending on where you're traveling to, the packing list varies wildly. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what you'll need in a place you've never been. While some might tell you fun extras and give quirky DIY packing tips, really all you need is the basics (and probably room in your luggage to bring home…
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Travel Hacks
Traveling can be stressful, especially when you aren't experienced at it. But there are ways to make it easier on yourself, and your student group, through the planning stages all the way till you make it home again. Delete cookies and enable private browsing when booking with online travel sites. Many of them will track…
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Planning a Road Trip: the Essentials
Road trips are a classic vacation go-to. From the one's you used to take with your family as a kid to movies like National Lampoon's Vacation, road trips seem like an American vacation staple. Just think, you spend a few days in a car with your best friends and you see the wild American countryside,…
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Budgeting San Francisco
Simply put, San Francisco is expensive. According to CBS Money Watch, San Francisco made the list as a fourth most expensive city in America, behind Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Honolulu. But we don't want to cut out the Bay City just because it's expensive. Resplendent with beauty, full of vivacious charm and historical integrity, San Francisco…
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Know Before You Go Camping
Camping is an exciting activity to enjoy with a few good friends. For many reasons, however, some people find it frightening to contemplate sleeping in the great wild outdoors. If you are one of those people, let us put your mind at ease with a few helpful tips on what you need to know before…
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Organized Tours vs. Independent Travel
Anyone going on a vacation in an unfamiliar place wonders about this question, often to others who have tried both options. Personally, I have heard it both ways and it most definitely depends on where you're traveling to more than anything. However, I'll let you all decide with all of the information at hand, the good…
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