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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
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.
Need a quick win this fall? Give nature journaling a try!
With a few basic supplies that you probably already have on-hand, and our single page PDF, you'll be able to take a nature journaling "field trip" whenever the mood strikes this season.
Our checklist style prompt list includes nature observation and journaling ideas for many places you might find yourself this fall, including the park, the preserve, the city, and your own backyard!
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!
Get ready to download our newest community science offering - 6 Winter Community Science Project Guides.
We sifted through tons of potential projects and figured out which ones would work well for homeschooling families this winter!
Each guide has all the details you need for signing up, participating successfully, and reporting your data to the project organizers.
For this bundle, we chose 3 indoor projects and 3 outdoor projects.
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!
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!