UNA - USA presents an annual Youth Ambassador Program. Current juniors or seniors in high school or freshmen in college can apply to work in HERO-sponsered schools in both South Africa and Nambia during the summer. Twenty teens will be selected for this opportunity to make a difference!
A guided tour of CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia offers a peek at the process of news production at a network which brings "news to over one billion people around the globe."
In 1969, a group of women and men of Seneca Falls created the National Women's Hall of Fame, believing that the contribution of American women deserved a permanent home in the small village where it all began. The Hall is home to exhibits, artifacts of historical interest, a research library and office. The National Women's Hall of Fame, a national membership organization, holds as its mission: To honor in perpetuity these women, citizens of the United States of America whose contributions to the arts, athletics, business, education, government, the humanities, philanthropy and science, have been the greatest value for the development of their country.
This Phoenix-based science center is one of the most interactive facilities in the country. Childrens' programs include a series of science camps (ages 6-11), computer classes and more. With over 300 hands-on exhibits, a giant-screen theater, a computerized plantetarium, multimedia classrooms and more, the Arizona Science Center is sure to keep students busy for hours. A number of teacher resources are available as well.
The Wild Bear Center for Nature Discovery offers year round hands-on educational programs to people of all ages to foster a life long appreciation of the environment and to promote an environmentally aware, responsible and ecologically sound community. Summer programs, school year programs, and outreach programs are available.
"Yunasa, the Lakota word meaning balance, is a weeklong camp experience for highly gifted youth. The mission of Yunasa is to teach campers techniques and skills for integrating the intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and physical aspects of their lives. Yunasa is devoted to reminding bright young people that they are more than just intellect."
The Junior Scholars Program is much more than academic studies. "In addition to course work, Scholars attend a series of seminars on topics such as time management and study skills, college admissions, financial aid, interpersonal relationships, cultural awareness, and alcohol awareness. A full schedule of social and recreational activities complements the scholarly parts of the Program. Students and staff participate in swimming, ice-skating, broomball, and volleyball; and they enjoy use of Miami University's Recreational Sports Center. A popular outing every year is the excursion to Kings Island. Scholars also enjoy picnics, movies, parents' weekend, and faculty appreciation dinner. The Scholars usually organize a hall government that plans several all-hall events, including a dance and a memory book."
This Michigan State University (MSU) Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program is a residential week-long summer program that gives students in grades 10 and 11 the opportunity to study the arts and cultural expressions of Africa through team research projects, daily language classes in Swahili and seminar discussions with African graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. The program is held in July at MSU and limited financial aid is available, based on financial need.
The purpose of the camp is to nurture in children and teens a respect and sensitivity to the natural world through greater knowledge of self and nature. The campers develop this through direct interactions with nature and the staff, learning scientific information, and through gaining experiences as part of a community.
"The Sewanee Summer Music Festival, at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, is an internationally acclaimed summer festival which combines a five week program for advanced music students and a professional concert series. The Festival was established in 1957 to provide a comprehensive training program emphasizing performance experience. Sewanee not only prepares students for the challenges professional musicians must meet, it makes them lifetime music lovers."
"Travel, discovery, learning, fun. You can have it all this summer at ASA. Whether you want to improve your SAT scores, explore exotic locations and cultures, take challenging classes, improve your language skills, and discover experiences with new friends, ASA has a variety of academically challenging and socially exciting programs for you!"
Since 1949, the world's most accomplished and promising musicians have made a pilgrimage to Aspen. They come not only to perform, but to teach, learn and be renewed. This year, Music Director David Zinman leads 750 student musicians, as well as 200 guest artists and artist-faculty members through a glorious summer of camaraderie and music.
Discovery Cove is for the entire family, featuring once-in-a-lifetime, up-close and one-on-one encounters with dolphins and other exotic marine animals. You can have a good time with the animals like Dolphins, Stingrays (With stingers removed), and Tropical Fish. There also are great stuff to see like Birds, Sharks, and Barracudas. It was very cool and I hope that you can go to see it someday.
The Traveling School is a semester-long program for girls aged 15-18 who wish to enhance their traditional academic experience with an overseas adventure. This non-profit is dedicated to the values of building self-esteem, increasing tolerance, creating cultural awareness, and encouraging academic exploration.
Students earn full academic credit for seven semester courses in math, history, science, language arts, foreign language, PE, and global studies. The innovative and interesting curriculum takes full advantage of the environment and the culture overseas. The Traveling School works with students and their regular home high schools to ensure students receive full academic credit towards graduation.
The Academy of Natural Sciences is a museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their mission is to create the basis for a healthy and sustainable planet through exploration, research and education. "At the Academy of Natural Sciences, we have four floors of exhibitions and activities centering on the environment and its diverse species that will educate and entertain visitors of all ages. Stroll among live butterflies, pet a live snake or hissing cockroach, learn about the importance of water, and much more. The Academy also houses 17 million specimens of plants, animals and other organisms, including rare library holdings that document scientific discovery from the 1500's to today."
The American Museum of Natural History is located in New York, New York. Permanent exhibitions include halls exhibiting fossils, mammals, birds, and cultures. The Hayden Planetarium is also located at the museum. The Web site for the AMNH is very comprehensive
Seaworld offers a variety of educational programs for students across country. You can enjoy one of their many programs at their San Diego, San Antonio, or Orlando, Florida locations. Their educational programs are great for class field trips, home school students, K-12 students, and they even offer "Ocean Discovery for Early Learners" which is great for kids who are between the ages of 2-6. Check out their website for more information.
Appel Farm's mission is to provide people of all ages, cultures, and economic backgrounds with a supportive, cooperative environment in which they can appreciate and present works in the performing and visual arts. The philosophy of the Center encompasses the belief that the arts are an exciting and essential part of the learning process, and that artistic talent is innate and waiting to be developed in every person.
The Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, Georgia offers programs & education as well as tours of the museums, houses, and gardens located at the center. Learn all about the rich history of Atlanta! Become a member and receive unlimited free admission, experience exclusive sneak previews, engage in the real stories of the south, and enjoy a host of additional privileges.
The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery is based on the understanding that science is the process through which we come to understand our world, and that play is the way children do science. Thus, we are a place where play and learning come together so that visitors of all ages can explore the wonders of the world. The Museum includes a host of places for adventure - - That Kid's Playce, the Hall of the Universe, the Caryl D. Philips Space Theater Oscar Boonshoft Science Central, EcoTrek, the Mead TreeHouse, Bieser Discovery Center, Charles E. Exley, Jr. Wild Ohio Zoo, and two galleries for temporary exhibits - - where reality and imagination mix. Adventures are enhanced through real specimens and artifacts from the museum's collection of 1.4 million items.
The Boston Museum of Science offers a three-floor museum including permanent and changing exhibits on biology, astronomy, paleontology, geology, technology, and much more. The museum also has live animal exhibits and a planetarium, as well as frequent educational programs.
An old (1901) lumber camp with its steam locomotive have been converted into a state park. The buildings and log flumes have been restored. You board the steam engine at the bottom of the mountain, ride up to the town, and explore at your leisure. It is great for train lovers, history lovers, and nature buffs as well.
The Center for Puppetry Arts is a unique cultural treasure located in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a magical place where children and adults are educated, enlightened and entertained. During the past 25 years, the Center has introduced millions of visitors to the wonder and art of puppetry, and has touched the lives of many through enchanting performances, curriculum-based workshops and the hands-on Museum, as well as Distance Learning and Outreach Programs.
The Center of Science and Industry website offers an array of educational resources including online interactive experiences, simple science experiments, the latest science news, and more educational programs. The COSI science center offers interactive Learning Worlds, theaters, an outdoor science park, exhibit galleries and "the world's only high wire unicycle." There are two COSI's- Toledo and Columbus, Ohio.
"The Crayola FACTORY® is full of exciting hands-on activities for kids of all ages. Explore the different studios and discover new materials and techniques. Don't miss our special Workshop Studio programs. We offer everything from storytelling to artist-in-residence programs."
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's mission is to initiate and conduct archaeological research and public education programs in partnership with Native Americans and institutions with common interests. The Center is dedicated to understanding, teaching, and preserving the rich history of the ancient Pueblo Indians who inhabited the American Southwest. Our campus-based programs incorporate current research findings from field excavations and allow you to participate in the actual research process.
The newly renovated Delaware Museum of Natural History adds to its popular Discovery Room a large traveling exhibit area. Also fabulous are the summer camps, which allow children a 'backstage' look at the research and archival areas of the museum, and gives them a chance to learn about many topics while making new friends.
Workshops offer your child the opportunity to investigate the Museum's unique collections and specimens, venture into various cultures, and wonder at the human body through activities, experiments, and crafts. We also offer parent-child workshops, so you can explore the world together. The Adult Programs Department offers a year-round selection of courses, workshops, and lectures for the 18-and-older crowd. Classes are on subjects ranging from Artifact Illustration to Space Art, and slide
presentations from visiting scientists and Museum curators.
The EcoTarium is an ecology museum located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The museum includes a planetarium, animal exhibits, a "tree walk," train ride for young children, and many hands-on exhibits. Special educational programs are frequently offered. The mission of the EcoTarium is to promote appreciation, increase knowledge and foster stewardship of New England environments by stimulating learning about the world in which we live.
Factory Tours USA - 455 tours and counting! This website celebrates American imagination and industry. What better way to appreciate those qualities than to visit and tour America at work. The information on this site is maintained by many people throughout the United States who enjoy visiting American industry. Simply click on a state and see what factory tours are available!
The Fernbank Museum of Natural History is located in Atlanta, Georgia and grew out of a forest and the dream of Emily Harrison, a young girl who loved it. Growing up in the late 1800s, Emily often played in the forest surrounding her home just east of Atlanta. Emily was a naturalist and thrived on learning about the plants and animals around her.
The 160,000 square foot museum, the only natural history museum in the world located in a natural environment, opened in 1992. In 2001 Fernbank became the first museum in the world to display the world's largest dinosaur, Argentinosaurus. This gargantuan sauropod is now a permanent feature in the Museum's 86-foot tall atrium along with the world's largest carnivorous dinosaur, Giganotosaurus, a flock of pterosaurs and a variety of other contemporaneous species in the Museum's newest permanent exhibition, Giants of the Mesozoic.
There are interesting shows on astronomy, physics, and space science at the Fiske Planetarium. These are on a regular basis and are appropriate for children of all ages. "The planetarium environment has a unique "surround" environment provided by no other medium. It immerses the audience in a three-dimensional dome that is capable of reproducing the night sky at any place on Earth and any time in history."
"This was the site of the largest Civil War battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere. The Battle of Gettysburg opened on July 1, 1863 and closed two days later with the climactic "Pickett's charge". Historians have referred to the Battle of Gettysburg as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy." It was the last major effort by Lee to take the fighting out of Virginia and into northern states. The Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg contains more than 7,000 interments including over 3,500 from the Civil War. It was here that President Abraham Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. On February 11, 1895, congressional legislation was signed to establish Gettysburg National Military Park as a memorial dedicated to the armies that fought that great three day battle. Gettysburg National Military Park incorporates nearly 6,000 acres, with 26 miles of park roads and over 1,400 monuments, markers, and memorials."
The Green River Preserve is a magnificent 3,400 acre wildlife preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Protected by the Schenck family for two generations, it is one of the finest private wildlife preserves in Western N.C. The Preserve is also a coed summer camp designed especially for rising 4th through 9th grade bright young naturalists.
This Atlanta art museum offers an impressive high art collection from various periods, as well as folk art and photography.
HEROES is committed to promoting the educational, social and emotional development of profoundly gifted students by facilitating the creation of educational resources for the profoundly gifted and informing parents, educators and profoundly gifted students about appropriately challenging educational opportunities.
The Museum has many excellent exhibits ranging from actual artifacts to relevant installations about current events such as Intrepid Remembers 9.11 and Defending our Future. Ride in the A-6 Cockpit Simulator, visit the Virtual Flight Zone or spend all day on beautiful ships overlooking the Hudson River!
Where else in the world do history and the future, nature and technology, young and old meet for an unforgettable and inspirational journey through space and time? The Kennedy Space Center has hosted millions of guests from around the world for more than 30 years -- telling the story of how the United States built a space program that launched men to the moon, orbited satellites that have improved our lives, and sent probes into distant space to solve the mysteries of the cosmos.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the premier university museums in the country.
The collections span the globe and the centuries. The Carlos maintains the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast with objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The Museum is home to collections of 19th and 20th-century sub-Saharan African art and European and American works from the Renaissance to the present.
The Office of Educational Programs at the Michael C. Carlos Museum offers a wide variety of engaging programs for the Emory community, children and families, and students and teachers. Programs include lectures, concerts, tours, and workshops.
This is a great museum with lots of great collections. The Museum has twelve departments - Biological Oceanography, Entomology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy, Marine Biology, Mollusks, Ornithology, Population Genetics, and Vertebrate Paleontology. They also have publications available to members: Breviora, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Checklist of Birds of the World, Nuttall Ornithological Club, Occasional Papers on Mollusks, OEBServer
Ornithological Gazetteers of the Neotropics, PSYCHE (A Journal of Entomology).
The Museum of Science and Industry's mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone. We inspire by making our exhibits, collections and content accessible to all of our audiences through informal, hands-on experiences. Why inspire? We can only guess how many youngsters decided to become biologists or doctors, geneticists or chemists or rocket scientists, right here.
The New England Aquarium is located in Boston, Massachusetts. The mission of the New England Aquarium is to increase understanding of aquatic life and environments, to enable people to act to conserve the world of water, and to provide leadership for the preservation and sustainable use of aquatic resources. This mission is fulfilled through exhibits, and through education, conservation and research programs. Exhibits showcase the diversity, importance and beauty of aquatic life and habitats, and highlight critical aquatic conservation issues. Programs emphasize species, habitats, and issues critical to New England.
"New York City’s only hands-on science and technology center. The Hall features more than 225 hands-on exhibits ... on biology, chemistry and physics. There are also Astroclub Meetings twice each month. Hidden Kingdoms, World of Molecules, Science Playground, AIDS, Realm of the Atom, Sound Sensations are just some of the amazing areas to explore."
The Philadelphia Zoo is known as America's first zoo.
Throughout its history, America's first zoo has played a monumental role in educating the public about exotic animals, promoting and participating in worldwide conservation efforts for endangered wildlife, and providing exceptional recreational opportunities for families.
Today the Zoo is reaching new heights in all areas of its mission as a conservation, education and recreation organization. Its state-of-the-art animal exhibits and health-care facilities, award-winning education and conservation programs, recreational opportunities, guest services, scientific accomplishments and historically significant venue make the Philadelphia Zoo one of the world's most renowned zoological societies and gardens. The Zoo is also the Philadelphia region's leading family attraction, welcoming more than a million visitors a year.
"Visit The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, located in the heart of Druid Hill Park, and begin a journey around the world that will bring you face-to-face with more than 2,000 amazing animals. "
Check out this zoological museums's online galleries which include: (1) Mammals & Birds, (2) Lord Rothschild's Office,(3) Fish, Large Animals & Invertebrates, (4) Zebras, Horses, Tapirs & Rhinos, (5) Deer, Pigs, Antelopes & Aquatic Mammals, (6)Amphibians, Marsupials, Reptiles & Domestic Dogs.
This sight provides information on many of the old coal train routes restored by West Viginia. They wind through beautiful untouched wilderness. Some of the trails have tunnels in them... and none of the grades are really steep because they were made to accommodate trains. The one in Morgantown runs along the Monogahelia river and through the downtown. There are bicycle and kayak rentals here. It is a great family outing.
It's a dupont estate and they have created an enchanted woods section with materials found throughout the grounds. For instance, a stone cottage with one wall missing has become a fairy house, a hollow tree trunk is a slide. There is a stone labryinth, "story stones" which resembles a miniatrue stonehenge, a fairy ring, and so much more. A delightful escape from playgrounds for the creative child!
The Youth Writing Festivals at Calvin College are for young people in grades 1-12. They include a writing contest and workshops for young writers featuring established authors and illustrators.
This website provides information on interesting tours and sites around the United States involving engineering. Do you realize that everything around you that makes your life easier and more fun, nearly everything that make our economy go, has been created by an engineer? So when you take a trip - either around your neck of the woods or around the country - you'll find countless sights that help tell the engineering story. The sights listed here are certainly not the only ones, but they're a sampling of activities creative marvels, and thrills that will help get you started. Take a look: Engineers turn ideas into reality!
Founded in 1853 as the first scientific institution in the West, the California Academy of Sciences' mission is to explore and explain the natural world. With eight scientific research departments, the Academy's natural history collections are utilized by scientists from around the world. Our scientists discover, collect and study invaluable specimens of animals, plants, minerals and anthropological artifacts from around the world. The collections provide essential tools for comparative studies in biodiversity, and are ranked among the world's largest. The Academy provides scientific knowledge and expertise to visiting scientists, educators, students, parents, conservation organizations, the media and the general public.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) advances the understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy by providing leadership and resources for qualified researchers to conduct basic research at the frontiers of high energy physics and related disciplines. Fermilab conducts basic research into particle physics. The laboratory grounds offer an ample supply of open country for various recreational activities. From picnicking on the restored prairie to bicycling on their series of trails, you will find Fermilab's campus to be an endless source of outdoor enjoyment.
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A magnet for scholars from around the globe, the Folger is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, as well as magnificent collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts on all disciplines—history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts.
Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency.
The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library includes photographs and historical memorabilia from the Carter presidency (1976 - 1981). A permanent exhibit of significant events occurring during Jimmy Carter's life and political career includes photographs with interpretative text.
This page on Renzulli.com shows how educators can using virtual field trips to excite and motivate students. The organizers have catalogued outstanding virtual field trips in a wide variety of content areas. In the Renzulli Learning System, these virtual field trips will enable your students to learn about exciting places that they will “virtually” visit and things and objects that they can explore.
This is a Historic Site located in Atlanta, Georgia. If you'd like to see the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr., and learn more about this historical figure, then this is a place that you must visit.
The Natural History Museum's web site allows those interested biodiversity, minerology, paleontology,entomology, zoology and more to take a peak at the museum's collections. Read about current research or view live online lectures by professionals in the field.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their Web site offers many online exhibits as well as information for teachers.
Planet Gap Year is for students that are in that limbo of High School graduation and the start of their University career. Looking for something fun over the summer or do you want to travel for a year before you head to University or are you thinking of just working? Planet Gap Years got you covered.