Single-day Field Trips for Students
Exploring the world outside of your classroom could do you and your students a world of good. Team up with a regional historian, former classroom teacher, and all-around "I'm-interested-in-everything" kind of guy, who will take care of all the trip planning, arranging, details, and teaching . . . or as much of it as you'd like.
Some benefits of a regional single-day field trip:
• connect local figures and events to national history
• build on your students’ knowledge about their home region, including place names and “local legends,” economic connections, and cultural developments
• develop a sense of connection to the greater region
• cultivate your students’ enjoyment of physically-active, intellectually-engaged travel - good for the mind, body, and spirit
• create a travel adventure that blends multiple academic disciplines
Field Trip Services:
Standard full service for any field trip includes all trip and travel arrangements, reservations, hire of on-site guides (if applicable), transportation, parking, routes and directions, teaching along the way and on site (if applicable). Teachers do not have to worry, exert, wonder, or make special preparations for an Explore Up Close Field Trip.
Additional service (at an additional cost): Regional historian, Chumley Cope, will make classroom presentations in advance of a scheduled field trip. These lively presentations will engage students in the issues and developments of the “places” they will explore during the field trip. Presentations usually involve maps, regional connections, and comparative studies, as well as other material.
Destinations:
Themed Routes:
Biltmore
Flat Rock / Carl Sandburg Home
Old Salem
Charlotte
Atlanta
Columbia / state capitol
Raleigh / state capitol
What to expect on an Explore Up Close Field Trip . . .
a sense of adventure . . . knowledgeable interpretation of the geography and sights out the bus window along our travel route . . . pertinent stories along the way . . . an enhanced site visit . . . an amenable, easy-to-work-with attitude . . . a regional perspective
Trip costs: Costs are dependent on the number of student participants, the activities comprising the field trip, transportation choices, and amenities such as snacks or lunches.
EUC will provide free price quotes for specified field trips upon request.
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Exploring Great Sites in the Carolina Up Country
• Fords, Ferries, Canals and Dams: Water and Daily Life
• Important Up Country Homes, and the Stories They Tell
• Early Churches and Cemeteries: a Demographic Picture
• the Clinchfield Railroad: North to the Alta Pass
• the Revolutionary War in the Back Country
Exploring Great Sites in the Mountains and N.C. Piedmont
• Retreating to the Mountains: Rest, Relaxation, and Recuperation
• Mountain Industry and its Human Impact
• Native Species / River and Forest Ecology
• Energy: Then, Now, Tomorrow