Hit The Road: Best Educational Road Trip Destinations For Your Students Or Youth Group

Field trips typically excite just as as much as educate your kids, making the young ones capable of learning even more than when learning in a classroom or hitting the books. That's why making a meaningful run to the right place for a scholarly interaction is a win-win situation for you and your students. The following  are perfect destinations that will satisfy your youngsters' yearning to glimpse and grasp something new and stimulating. And given their proximity, they are all sure to make an exciting and fun road trip for your class or youth group.

Live Earth Farm

PO Box 3490
Freedom, CA 95019-3490
(831) 763-2448
(831) 728-2032
www.liveearthfarm.net

This is a distinguished place where learning about earth science is at its best. Live Earth Farm, convenient to Sacramento and San Francisco, is a working farm that puts youngsters and anyone else who is interested in the right place to learn all about nutrition, all thanks to the organic and sustainable food grown at this education-oriented venue. Those who opt to board the bus for a field trip to this lush location surrounded by towering redwoods and thriving oak trees are also privy to get the scoop about selective growing practices on what is actually a 150-acre family farm situated in the picturesque Pajaro Valley.

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Chabots Space & Science Center

10000 Skyline Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619
(510) 336-7300
www.chabotspace.org

Chabot Space & Science Center offers stellar opportunities to learn no matter what your age. Field trips via bus from either nearby San Francisco or Sacramento, which is about an hour and a half away, allow for hands-on, simulated space missions in the on-campus Challenger Learning Center. Also on board are a number of exhibitions, including one called Beyond Blastoff which answers questions about what the food is like on the International Space Station, how work gets done when you are floating around in your office chair and other situations that prevail in space when you are a highly-trained astronaut.

Cachuma Lake Recreation Area

2225 Highway 154
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805) 686-5055
www.cosb.countyofsb.org  

About two hours north of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara's captivating Cachuma Lake is a favorite field trip destination. An abundance of scholarly yet fun programs afford takers the chance to experience a lake cruise on a pontoon, with a focus on lake habitats, resident wildlife including rare bald eagles, and watersheds, among other topics. You and your young ones can also take a nature walk, a fun opportunity to examine a myriad of native plants along the trail, some of which were used in a number of ways by the Chumash tribe. You can also stop at the Neal Taylor Nature Center, which covers everything there is to know about Chumash history. In addition, of course, to both hands-on and hands-off exhibits featuring a variety of animals, geology and plant life germane to the area.

Museum of New Americans

2825 Dewey Road, Suite 102
San Diego, CA 92106
(619) 756-7707
www.newamericanmuseum.org

Situated in picturesque Point Loma, this exceptional facility is all about immigration in America, a current hot topic that concerns many in this country and others as well. The New Americans Museum not only gives lessons regarding background cultures of all the people who make up our diverse nation, but this distinctive venue also provides historical data about those immigrants who came to the United States and made considerable contributions to life in this nation. Students who take the two-hour bus ride south from Los Angeles to get to this institution of higher learning will also gain great insight into their own ancestors' migrant situations through stories and images in this superb facility.

This article was written by Jane Lasky of Examiner.com for CBS Local.