Home School Field Trip
, MO 65619
Homeschool families are invited to attend a field trip day on Friday, September 12, from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm. Registration is required.
Registration starts at the visitor lawn and will be available starting at 9am. Junior Ranger program booklets will also be available at the registration table starting at 9am. Activity stations at the visitor center and Ray House will run from 10 am to noon with start times at 10am, 10:30am, and 11 am and at Stop 5 and Stop 7 starting every half hour 1 pm - 3pm. Programs can be completed in a series that includes all locations or a la carte based on your interest.
Programs are grouped by ages but participants are not restricted to stations based on age. Choose which topics are of most interest. Groups may split up at a site as long as parents remain on site with the youngest participants in the group.
Note: Program times and topics are subject to change based on weather and staff availability.
Programs:
| Location | Time (Every half hour - programs last 25 minutes) | Activity | Age focus |
| Visitor Center | 9 am - 12:30 pm & 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Junior Ranger Table | All Ages |
| All Locations | 9 am - 12:30 pm & 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Orientation | Family adults |
| Reading & Writing | |||
| Visitor Center | 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12:00 | Story time | 5 - 8 |
| Visitor Center | 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12:00 | Letters Home | 9 - 13 |
| VIsitor Center | 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12:00 | Write it Right | 14-18 |
| Missouri State History | |||
| Ray House | 10 am - 4 pm | Ray House Tours | All Ages |
| Ray House | 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12:00 | Work & Play Like a Kid Back in the Day | 5-8 |
| Ray House | 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12:00 | Osage Culture | 9-13 |
| Ray House | 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12:00 | Slavery and Freedom in a Border State | 14-18 |
| Natural Resources | |||
| Stop 5 | 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 | Water Safari | 5-8 |
| Stop 5 | 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 | What is in the Watershed? | 9-13 |
| Stop 5 | 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 | Mapping and the Landscape | 14-18 |
| Civil War | |||
| BH | 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 | Load Nine Times: Wooden Musket Drilling | 5-8 |
| BH | 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 | On the Cannon Crew (no actual cannon firing ) | 9-13 |
| BH | 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 | A Severe Test of Courage Guided Walk | 14-18 |