ECC Field Trip Ideas

This is more a post for my own records, and is a compilation from the posts on the MFW forum.

• World Showcase at Epcot Center (Disney World, Florida)
• Zoo
• Arboretum & Japanese gardens
• A favorite spot for nature walks, to re-visit in various seasons
• Restaurants from various cultures - Russian, French, Mexican, Greek, Chinese, etc.
  (many times the restaurants include artwork etc, not just food)
• Hispanic market
• Local German architecture
• Russian art museum
• Swedish "castle" museum
• Missionary speaker and missions experiences
• Library's map drawers, atlases in reference section, & huge wall map of our city
• Small county museum for looking up ancestors, neighbors, etc
• Chinese restaurant and little Chinese grocery store
  Mexican restaurant
• Indian Restaurant and little shop attached to it
  
• BIbles for the World (the founder is from India and he entertained our children for an hour with his stories)
  
• Our German babysitter spent an hour discussing how things were in her town during WWII (she was a young girl of about 7 or so).
  
• The people across the street met a family from Kenya and we went to visit them for an afternoon.
  
• We went to the local mosque and visited. While there, the leader wrote our kids' names in Arabic on a piece of paper for us to keep.
• Aquarium (after studying Japan and oceans)
• United States: We went to an Atlanta Braves baseball game. We also went hiking in order to identify trees in an American Forest. To conclude our studies we had an All-American BBQ, complete with grilled cheeseburgers, homemade lemonade and New England pumpkin cake.
• Mexico: We visited the International Farmers market to pick up some different types of cactus, brought them home and cut them open to study what was inside.
• Brazil: Our botanical gardens have a rain forest terrarium. Very cool!
• Norway: We took a little field trip to Ikea. Some of the largest forests in the world occupy Norway, Sweden and Finland. Furniture is a major export. Plus, they have a Swedish market so I could pick up some authentic eats.
• France: Visited a lake, did tree identification and painted en plien air. We also visited the Coke museum and drank soda from around the world.
• Germany: I had every intention of visiting Helen, Ga. This city is a recreation of an alpine village. We never made it, busy December. Instead we went to the Christmas Around the World exhibit at our local children's museum.
  
• Kenya: the zoo. Also did geocaching.
• China: Found out that there are Chinese Culture classes in our area. Went as a guest. This was quite an experience. They taught brush painting, Chinese songs and even had stories in Chinese.
• Russia: Went to a ballet performance of Tchaikovsky's work.
• Antarctica: Saw the penguins at the aquarium.
• We also met with missionaries from other countries whenever we could. We were able to talk with missionaries from China, Mexico, Zambia and India. we also have friends from Mexico, Australia, Holland, Ireland, India and Brazil so we made a point to tell them when we were studying their country. They always loved talking to us about their homeland.
• On a few occasions we went to restaurants of the country we were studying; Mexico, Canada (Bugaboo Creek), Norway ( Ikea),India and Australia (I never knew meat pie could be so good!) But our favorite memories were when we cooked at home ethnic food.