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Educational Resources - Field Trip Savvy
Need help funding your Nature Field Trip?
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Try one of the following suggestions
to help get your classroom learning and enjoying the outdoors!
- Multiple Field Trips - schedule
more than one trip on your day outdoors to maximize the value of
your bus fees
- Buddy Up - partner up with
another teacher or grade level and share the cost of the bus and or
the field trip
- PTA & PTO - connect with your
school's PTA or PTO - they often have funds available to spend on
meaningful projects, including a high-quality trip to any Nature Net
site.
- Local Civic Organizations -
sometimes organizations in your community, like the Optimists' Club
or the Lions/Lioness Club, will provide support for educational
projects like this
- Special Initiatives - check with
your school to see if they have special funds available towards
specific initiatives. For example, if your school has funding for
reading and language improvement, see if your field trip site offers
language arts infusion. And remember, you can learn about science,
math, language arts, social studies and environmental education in
the outdoors.
- Parent/Neighbor Subsidization -
ask parents and neighbors if they're willing to pay a nominal amount
beyond the field trip fee for their own child. This can help
subsidize the cost of another child.
- Title One - ask the site your
planning to visit if they are able to underwrite to costs for Title
One students
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Take the Bus - use your local
public transportation - and ask if they offer special rates for
classrooms
- Walk - it's fun and great for
the environment!
 Nature
Express - take two sequentially related field trips or mentor a
new teacher to become eligible for Nature Net's bus fee
reimbursement program
Designing Effective Field Trips [back
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Where to go? An on-line listing of Nature Net destinations in
South Central Wisconsin.
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 SmartTours
Exciting SmartTours make the most of time out of the
classroom! Find the most logical field trip connections, ideas for
lunch stops, door-to-door directions, and more! Book
Geographically
or Thematically.
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Tricks of the Trail - a special Nature Net publication with
advice on out-of-the classroom adventures.
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Nature Express - a program providing bus transportation
reimbursement for qualified applicants.
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Teacher's Guide to Nature Net Destinations - get your own
"green booklet" with all the contact information for Nature Net
sites.
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Nature Net
Highlights - get your hands on Nature
Net's latest projects and programs with this teacher brochure -
includes information on Nature Express bus funding, Earth Alive and
more!
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Pre- and Post-visit Materials for your nature education field
trips Teachers’ Eco-Network.
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MMSD Science Scope & Sequence - take an exciting filed trip to a
Nature Net site to achieve MMSD Science goals!
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Nature Connections - A series of topically-related, sequential
field trips that build upon each other- and your curriculum. It’s a
way to visit Nature Net sites more than once per year!
Standards Based Activities [back
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Professional Development [back
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Involving Families [back
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Nature Net is a proud member of the
No Child Left Inside
coalition
to connect kids with outdoor nature experiences
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