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You've landed in our Digital Marketplace, where you can find free and low-cost nature-focused science resources for your homeschoolers.
Our signature offering is the Field Trip Science Membership, where you'll take an outdoor field trip a month using our step-by-step guides (video and pdf), then expand your experiences throughout the month with our at-home activities, nature journaling guides, content lessons, and additional resources. Our membership works for the whole family, and is created especially with those hard to reach tweens and teens in mind. Learn more about the membership and sign up HERE.
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Kelly & Sue, Co-Founders
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Field Trip Science Membership
The Field Trip Academy has opened the doors to a membership devoted to connecting homeschoolers with real world, hands-on science experiences that work for a wide range of ages and stages, especially tweens and teens.
We provide monthly learning modules based on field experiences and ongoing community science projects.
Our step-by-step videos and printables show you how to facilitate rich, easy to implement science activities that connect learners with science, the outdoors, and each other.
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates
Get a sampling of what our Field Trip Science Membership is like - without the commitment!
In this module, we will help you and your homeschoolers take a field trip to your local freshwater creek or stream. There, you'll collect, identify, and report macroinvertebrates and other organisms to an ongoing community science effort.
Click "learn more" for a detailed list of what's inside!
Fireflies & Shells Summer Bundle
Get a sampling of what our Field Trip Science Membership is like - without the commitment!
In this bundle, you get two summertime modules that will get you outside and learning, even if you're on vacation!
Click "learn more" for a detailed list of what's inside each module!
Fireflies
Get a sampling of what our Field Trip Science Membership is like - without the commitment!
In this module, we will show you how to participate in a fireflies community science project, create a nature journal entry of your firefly observations, do a luminescence inquiry lab, and more!
Click "learn more" for a detailed list of what's inside the fireflies module!
Shells
Get a sampling of what our Field Trip Science Membership is like - without the commitment!
In this module, we will help you and your homeschoolers take a field trip to your local beach to collect shells. You'll collect and identify different types of shells, learn about the shell's basic parts, and do some fun follow up classification activities at home.
Click "learn more" for a detailed list of what's inside!
Backpack Essentials for Nature Education
Get ready to download Backpack Essentials for Nature Education, and push the easy button on science focused field trips this year!
Our free resource saves you TIME, ENERGY and MONEY with a detailed downloadable and video walkthrough of all the field trip supplies we keep in our educator backpacks throughout the year. It can be easy to incorporate nature education whenever you are outdoors with these essentials close at hand!
Nature Journaling Basics
Need a quick win? Give nature journaling a try! We show you how to get started with our video and guide, then give you some prompts to try.
With a few basic supplies that you probably already have on-hand, and our PDFs, you'll be able to take a nature journaling "field trip" whenever the mood strikes.
Our checklist style prompt list includes nature observation and journaling ideas for many places you might find yourself this spring and summer, including the playground, the beach, the city, and your own backyard!
9 Hands-On Community Science Projects
Get ready to download 9 Hands-On Community Science Projects, and push the easy button on experiential science this year!
Our free resource saves you TIME, ENERGY and MONEY with a menu of field trip based science projects that are educational, meaningful and fun for all ages. We've curated a short list of current projects just for you.