Year 4 Field Trips – Lampstand Press

On this page, we hope to post field trip ideas from YOUR state that dovetail with Tapestry subjects as organized in our week-plans. Please submit your ideas via email, and please try to include the following information:

Your email address (for our sake, in case we have questions, but you can tell us if you’re willing to have your email linked as a contact person for more info about your recommendation).
The name of the attraction.
ANY online links to explain, give information, about the attraction.
A short paragraph explaining why the attraction would serve homeschoolers.

THANKS for your help! We will post states as their submissions come in, and under the weeks as listed below:

**IMAX often has great films that are an excellent addition to your academic studies. Find out what is playing, and where, to schedule this activity for your family.

Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings

Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Museum on the building of the Atomic Bomb!.
Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama.
Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Wright Brothers memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
Sagamore Hill, the Home of Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, New York.
Teddy Roosevelt National Historic Site in New York, New York.
Roosevelt’s Little White House Historic Site in Warm Springs, Georgia.
The Morgan Library and Museum – The collections of JP Morgan, New York, New York.
George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas. Studying Albert Einstein we will use the museum’s hands on exhibits to perform our own experiments.

Week 2: The Progressive Era

William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati, Ohio.
National Parks – find one in your state.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.

Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War

Dr. Pepper museum in Waco, Texas.
Titanic Museum
Woodrow Wilson house in Washington, DC.
Submarine museum in Groton, Connecticut.
Robert Frost Stone House Museum in South Shaftsbury, Vermont.

Week 4: Deadlock and Death

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
National Air and Space Museum near the Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virginia.
Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas. One of the literature books covered this week is the Railway Children. A railroad museum just seemed very appropriate.

Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts

Hillwood Museum – One of the premier art collector’s museums in the US. The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia – Washington, DC.
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas. The museum has an exhibit on air.

Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace

If you didn’t make the trip while studying Year 3, consider it now: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s home in Rocky Ridge: Mansfield, Missouri.
Warren Harding home in Marion, Ohio
Heard Museum – McKinney, Texas. Finishing up Anne of Green Gables this week and Wind in the Willows we thought it would be nice to see of some of the outdoors up close and personal.

Week 7: Postwar America

Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts or Rutland, Vermont
There are several radio museums around the country. One is in Huntington, West Virginia.

Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career

Check out your local museums for displays about the Great Depression.
Amelia Earhart Birthplace and Museum in Atchison, Kansas.
Courthouse tour: Old Red Museum in Dallas, Texas.
Outstanding, incredibly detailed and rich site on WWII
WWII timeline
Outstanding index of sites dealing with WWII. Heavily hyper linked text and a joy to use.
Outstanding site has many maps and other geographic information on WWII.

Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction

Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market

Franklin D. Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, New York.
FDR Memorial in Washington, DC.
FDR’s Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Alcatraz in the San Francisco bay area of California.

Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America

Von Trapp Family Museum and Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.
Visit the courtroom of “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Gregory Peck film) Recreated for the film in great detail!!! This link submitted by Erin.

Week 12: FDR and the New Deal

No links for this week.

Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement

No links for this week.

Week 14: Blitzkrieg!

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

Week 15: World-Wide War

Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Holocaust Museum in Dallas, Texas.

Week 16: Unconditional Surrender

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
American airlines C.R. Smith Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. With reading and discussion this week on the atomic bomb and Rosie the Riveter, we thought a field trip to learn more about airplanes would be beneficial.

Week 17: Hot War to Cold War