Surrounding Areas
If you would like to add to this list, please contact OC Homeschooling.
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Rancho Los Cerritos Rancho Adventure
The Rancho Adventure Program enables children to learn about daily life on a 19th century rancho as they tour the 1844 adobe house and participate in hands-on historic activities. Rancho Adventures can be scheduled Wed-Fri afternoons, starting at 4pm. Tours are free, but advance reservations are required. Rancho Adventure Program is available for groups of 6-24 school-aged children.
Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site – 4600 Virginia Road, Long Beach, Ca 90807
562-570-1755
Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
Individual poppy flowers are blooming around the reserve, so the fields are still mostly green but have brilliant orange dots scattered among the grasses. Grape soda lupine bushes are in bloom at the west end of the Tehachapi Vista Point Trail, and owl’s clover are starting to pop up on the North Poppy Loop Trail. Kitanemuk Vista Point has great views of the patches of goldfields that are starting to turn the surrounding hillsides yellow, and Lacy Phacelia are beginning to bloom on the west slope of the point. There are many poppy plants with buds forming, and several other wildflowers can be found blooming along the trails. Poppies bundle themselves up when it’s cold and windy, so check the forecast before coming out.
Sea World
Enhance your home education program with a Field Trip to SeaWorld. You’ll observe the natural behaviors of ocean animals and learn about the methods used to train marine mammals.
Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur
The Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur is a hospital for ill, injured and orphaned marine mammals. Our primary work is the treatment and release of rescued California sea lions, northern elephant seals, harbor seals and northern fur seals. This work is authorized by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
LEGOLAND California Home School Field Trip
- Special discounted full-day Park admission for self-guided learning through play
- Downloadable Resource Guides
- First Mondays of the Month: Staff-led, family-friendly education programs:
10:30am – 11:30am- Amazing Machines (Age 6+): Build an amazing model windmill or theme park ride, using working gears, levers, and pulleys!
- Energy Lab (Age 6+): Fossil fuels are history! Build a solar-powered car or theme park ride.
- MINDSTORMS Robotics (Age 9+): Coach your robot to score goals, or retrieve Mars rocks and rescue a LEGO scientist. Program and download tasks to your robot’s motors and sensors.
Autry National Center
Visit The Autry with friends, family, colleagues or members of any organization and you’ll be richly rewarded. Parties of 10 or more receive personally guided Gallery Tours, complimentary gift from the Museum Store and special dining options at the Golden Spur Cafe.
Aquarium of the Pacific
The Aquarium of the Pacific would like to invite homeschool networks, students, parents, and teachers to our Homeschool Days on September 21 and 22, 2011.
While the Aquarium will be open to the general public, no classroom-based school trips will be booked during these days. This will allow our educators to bring you ocean related activities and biofacts throughout the morning. These engaging learning stations will allow students of all ages to experiment, investigate, and explore marine habitats and concepts. We hope that you will take this opportunity to come and see what the Aquarium of the Pacific has to offer.
Not able to attend Homeschool Days? Consider visiting us on any other day and receive the same group rate. As a homeschool group all you need is a minimum of 10 people for group admission, or 20 for a classroom or theater program. Advance booking with the Aquarium’s Guest Support Center is required.
South Coast Botanic Gardens
The South Coast Botanic Gardenas a knowledgeable group of docents available to give tours of the Garden. Some docents are available for weekend tours. Get an informative look at the Garden by arranging a docent led tour. Docent tours are coordnated by the County of Los Angeles. Please call the County representative at (310) 544-6815 to schedule a tour.
Huntington Library
Reservations are not necessary to visit The Huntington. Tickets may be purchased at the time of your visit. Discounts are available for seniors, students, and groups.
Riley’s Farm
If you’re a teacher or a youth group leader, we have educational day trips of all sorts to meet your needs: the popular Revolutionary War Adventure, The Civil War Adventure, Gold Mine Adventure, the Old Joe Homestead Tour, featuring the pioneer life of 1880′s homesteader Joe Wilshire, the Colonial Farm Life Adventure, or the Overnight Revolutionary War Adventure. If you are overwhelmed by these choices, call our reservations desk (909-790-TIME) and one of our staff members will be glad to help you pick the appropriate tour, or design one of your own.
California Science Center
Home school organizations or groups with 20 or more students can contact the Reservations department at 213-744-2019 to schedule a field trip program offered in the Big Lab. Large groups that are unable to attend the Home School Days listed below may also arrange to do similar activities on a different date.
Museum of Tolerance
Developed for 5th and 6th graders, the program is an age-appropriate introduction to museums, Holocaust history, and contemporary issues of tolerance and respect.
Page Museum (LaBrea Tarpits)
We offer free schools visits for California accredited Pre-K-12 schools when reserved three weeks in advance, based on availability.
SS Lane Victory Ship
Built in 1945, here in Los Angeles, CA, the S.S. Lane Victory served with distinction during World War II, The Korean War, and the Vietnam War as well as in times of peace as part of the merchant fleet. After years of deterioration in mothballs, it took countless hours of restoration to put her back into her original condition by volunteers of the United States Merchant Marine Veterans of World War II. A nationally recognized historic landmark, the S.S. Lane Victory now serves as a living museum and memorial to the service and sacrifices of all Merchant Marine sailors and Navy Armed Guardsmen. Several times each summer she sails into the past on one of her “Victory At Sea” cruises where “old salts” can reminisce, about adventures past, and younger generations can catch a glimpse of bygone times.
Fort MacArthur Military Museum
The Fort MacArthur Museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history of Fort MacArthur, a U.S. Army post which guarded the Los Angeles harbor from 1914 to 1974. The Museum was established in 1985, and it is housed in the corridors and galleries of historic Battery Osgood-Farley. The Fort MacArthur Reservations hold an important collection of historical structures which were part of the U.S. Army’s role in the defense of the American continental coastline from invasion. These structures clearly trace the development of American coastal defenses, from the all big gun era of the turn of the century to the missile era of today.
Amy’s Farm
On our guided tour you will participate in all sorts of fun hands-on activities!
Tallship American Pride
Long Beach (next to Aquarium of the Pacific)
A 130ft 3-masted historical tallship schooner sailing off Southern California waters. Historical and Marine Science programs aboard a historic tallship from nautical past. 3-5 day Catalina Island Trips, Whale Watching, overnight history programs.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church London Brass Rubbing Centre
Group rate details: Groups of eight or more by reservation only. Includes docent talk. Tea and Rubbing–Adults: $23.00, children (K-12) $13.00. Rubbing only: $6.50 (for any brass with standard price up to $8.00).
Skirball Cultural Center
Teachers are among the Skirball’s most valued community partners. Offering a range of in-depth educational programs and resources, the Skirball invites teachers to visit on their own, as well as visit with their students.
- The Skirball’s School Outreach Programs offer students in Pre-K–Grade 12 the chance to participate in School Tours and School Performances and In-School Residencies that celebrate cultural diversity and explore shared values. Public schools as well as private secular and religious schools of all denominations are welcome.
Jensen-Alvarado Historic Ranch & Museum In Riverside
An 1880s Living History Interpretive Program and Museum located in Riverside off the 60 Freeway and Rubidoux Blvd. Open to the public Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Available for group tours Monday through Saturday. Reservations needed for Group tours.
Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens
Led by trained nature interpreters, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden offers walking tours and interactive activity stations help educate students about the Golden State. Tours and programs convey the importance of native plants, cultures of indigenous people and natural history of California. Designed to engage students through hands-on activities, each tours and programs align with the history-social science content standards for California public schools.
Banning Museum
Educational Program reservations for the 2010-2011 school year will begin on September 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. Please call (310) 548-7777 to make a reservation.
International Printing Museum
*Papermaking – get your hands wet with goopy paper fibers while making your own paper
*Cartooning – create your own characters and watch our own quick sketch artist at work
*Printing Presses – print your own design on our 19th and 20th century presses
*Mini-tours that demonstrate type casting and printing on a Gutenberg press
*Watch our “8th Wonder of the World“ Linotype casting type
L.A. County Fair In Pomona
909-623-3111
Ice Skating At Paramount Iceland
Field trips or lessons on a regular basis. Convenient for LA and Orange County students. Call to make arrangements for your group: (562) 633-1171
8041 Jackson Street, Paramount, CA 90723
Crossbow Mining Co. at Riley’s Farm
12253 S. Oak Glen Rd., Oak Glen, CA 92399
909-790-5852
Olvera Street
In Los Angeles near Union Station.
Fits perfectly with the 4th grade social science standards of CA.
California Gold Rush
Lewis Center for Educational Research
17500 Mana RoadApple Valley, California 92307
(760) 946-5414
Mainly geared towards fourth grade students…center also has other areas of interest including a desert tortoise rescue station…all together a great place to spend the day!
Taylor Guitars
A free, guided tour of the Taylor factory is given every Monday through Friday at 1 p.m. (excluding holidays). To take the tour, no appointment is necessary. Simply check-in at the receptionist desk in the lobby of our main building at least 5-10 minutes before 1 p.m. to ensure that you don’t miss the tour. Because of the popularity of the tour, if you are bringing a group, please keep your party to a maximum of eight people.
The Catalina Experience
On Catalina Island’s beautiful White’s Landing
A prime new location for a hands on outdoor experience. This facility does everything from science education for school groups to youth and family camps during the summer.
Renaissance Pleasure Faire-School Day
Location: Irwindale, Ca.
Phone Number: 626-969-4750
Heritage Education Programs
Where archaeology and adventure uniquely combine to fulfill education standards from many separate disciplines.
Indian Hills Camp
In Jamul
Many things to offer like history – Gold Rush and Southern Cal Indians as well as outdoor science field trips. Enormous playground and farmyard. Staff is well educated and versed on the subjects and works wonders with the kiddos.
