Homeschool Field Trip Options

MILITARY MAPPING MAIDENS

Grades: K-12th

Students will explore the role that cartography played in WWII.  Students will learn about the true stories of young women who were recruited by the US Army Map Service to research and draw maps by hand for the Allied war effort. 

SECRET MISSION: OPERATION CARPETBAGGER 

Grades: K – 12th

Students will learn about the secret mission that dropped spies and supplies to the resistance during WWII.

SCIENCE OF FLIGHT

Grades: K – 12th

Students investigate the science of flight. Students will explore and experiment with the four forces of flight and Bernoulli’s Principle. Students will also learn about the basic control surfaces of a plane and explore a plane.  

LIVING HISTORY OF WWII

Grades: K – 12th

Students gain an unique insight and perspective of WWII by participating in interactive and role playing experiences. Students will decide to enlist in the armed forces or wait to be drafted and will explore the ramifications of these decisions as either a flight crew member or combat engineer. Students will NOT have the opportunity to experience both military paths.   Students will learn about military life and also how WWII altered life on the Home Front.

RIGHTING A WRONG 

Grades: K – 12th

Students will examine the complicated history of the relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII. Students will be able to experience hands-on a typical home in a Japanese internment camp.

HISTORY OF FLIGHT

Grades: K – 12th

Students will learn about the history of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s contributions to flight and the significance Ohio played in aviation history. Students will also experiment with the four forces of flight and explore a plane.