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New Jersey School Trip Ideas
Heritage Trail Association offers a variety of programs for
school-aged children, including specialized, guided bus tours
as well as in-school programs, all of which meet various New
Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in Social Studies
and Science for all grades.
Our bus tours consist of an all-day program whereby children
typically will visit three historic sites. In addition to
the activities and information provided at the sites, the
bus route is custom designed so that students hear stories
along the way about the other sites they are passing.
It's a wonderful opportunity for children to experience Revolutionary
War era homes, early 19th century schoolhouses, life along
a manmade waterway and to learn the County's history from
its early days on up to the present.
Educators can choose tours based on either the central, northern
or southern reaches of the County. Examples of sites visited
include the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic
Sites; Rockingham State Historic Site; the Van Horne, Abraham
Staats and Jacobus Vanderveer and Kirch-Ford Houses; the Delaware
and Raritan Canal State Park, the Bedensville School and Brick
Academy, to name but a few of the possible site visits.
Or educators can work with HTA to create a custom bus tour
based on their own needs.
New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards met in these
programs include Social Studies, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5, and 6.6.
Heritage Trail Association also offers programs in the classroom
using costumed docents to tell tales of the County, take students
on a photographic "armchair tour" of historic sites or a variety
of other activities.
Finally, be sure to ask us about our all new school assembly
program on colonial life in the County that will be available
in 2007!
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