Field Trips for the Winter Trimester (1/4-3/19)
Additional suggestions have been added to the field trip possibilities list. 

Please look over each and vote for your family's favorites or email Gleamer your list of favorites.  Vote for as many as your family would participate in.

Field trips will be on a Tuesdays, unless otherwise noted.

• Route 11 Potato Chip Factory: Mount Jackson 

o    Tour the factory and learn about making potato chips on a large scale.
o    Samples will be available.
o    Length: 30 minutes
o    Cost: Free

• Native American Industries: Mount Jackson 

o    Watch pedestrian and traffic signals being made
o    Learn about the tools and process involved
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost: Free
o    **This tour is pending the factory having more work after the new year**
 
 

• Frontier Culture Museum: Stuanton  

o    Choose from 1 program and a self-guided tour or 2 programs from the list on the website.
o    Hands on activities.
o    Picnic on site
o    Possible date: Tuesday, March 16th
o    Length: 2 hours per program
o    Cost: Free for ages 0-5, $5 for ages 6-18, $7 for adults
 
 

• Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: Verona  

o    Find out how food is collected, stored and distributed to local hungry people
o    Tour the facility
o    Possible date: Tuesday, February 2nd (same day as Eli’s)
o    Length: ½ hour
o    Cost: Free

• Eli’s Fun Center: Verona 

o    Play on the inflatables for an hour
o    Play in the game room for an hour
o    Bring your own lunch available
o    Possible date: Tuesday, February 2nd (same day as the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank)
o    Length: 2 hours
o    Cost: Free for ages 0-1, $5 for ages 2-18, Free for adults
 

• Massanutten Water Park: Massanutten  

o    Play on the indoor water park
o    Bring your own lunch available
o    Possible date: Monday, January 18th
o    Length: 4 hours
o    Cost: Free for ages 0-2, $19 for ages 3 and up, $5 to just observe

• The Paramount Theater STREB-RAW: Charlottesville 

o    We are on the waiting list to see the performance
o    Possible date: Friday, March 5th
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost: Free for ages 0-1, $5 ages 2-18, $7 for adults

• Charlottesville Ice Park: Charlottesville 

o    Ice skating
o    Length: 2 ½ hours
o    Cost:  $4 for skaters ages 0-5, $7.50 for skaters ages 6 and up (includes skate rental)
o    Would look to make this the same day as STREB if we get a spot

• JMU Planetarium: Harrisonburg  

o    Choose from any of the listed shows
o    Length: Depends on show
o    Cost: Free
 

• Bowling at Staunton Lanes

o    Length: 2 hours
o    Cost: $2/game, $2 for shoes
 
 

• Funky’s: Harrisonburg 

o    Roller skating
o    Length: 2-3 hours
o    Bring your own lunch available
o    Cost: $3 per person, includes skate rental
 
 

• Blackfriar’s Playhouse: Staunton 

o    Interactive tour
o    Watch The Alchemist (funny and family friendly) rehearsal for as long as desired
o    Possible date:  Tuesday, January 26th
o    Length: 1-2+ hours
o    Cost: Free for ages 0-4, $7 for ages 5 and up, including adults
 
 

• Fire Station and Fire Museum: Staunton  

o    Tour with demonstrations and video
o    Possible date: Tuesday, January 5th
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost: Free
o    This field trip would take place on the same day as the Police Station
 

• Police Department: Staunton 

o    Tour of facilities including patrol cars and 911 call center
o    Gentle K-9 demonstration
o    Possible date: Tuesday, January 5th
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost Free
o    This field trip would take place on the same day as the Fire Station

• Maggie’s Beads: Staunton 

o    Take a bracelet making class
o    Length: 2 hours
o    Cost: $10/ person who makes a bracelet

• Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library: Staunton 

o    Tour and interactive activities
o    Divide into younger and older group
o    Length: 2 hours
o    Cost: Free for ages 0-5, $4 for 6-18, $8 for adults
 
 

• Whitewave Beverages Manufacturing: Mt. Crawford

o    Tour the plant
o    Find out how different drinks (Horizon Organic Milk, milk, soy milk, coffee creamer, Fruit Today Juice) are mass processed
o    Free samples
o    Possible date: Same day as Persimmon Dairy trip
o    Length: 1 ½ hours
o    Cost: Free
 

• Persimmon Dairy: Harrisonburg

o    Watch cows being milked
o    Learn about the bottling process and buying directly from the farmer
o    Interact with animals
o    Possible date: Same day as Whitewave trip
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost: Free
 
 

• Red Front Grocery store: Harrisonburg 

o    Tour the behind the scenes operations of the store
o    Demonstrations and samples
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost: Free

• WHSV TV 3: Harrisonburg 

o    Tour the station and experience the green screen
o    Possible date: Wednesday when attending WVPT
o    Length: ½ hour
o    Cost: Free

• WVPT PBS: Harrisonburg 

o    Tour the station and find out how PBS shows get to your television
o    Split group into older and younger
o    Watch a few minutes of the taping of Virginia Farming
o    Possible date: Wednesday when attending WHSV
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost: Free

• Fishersville Wastewater Treatment Plant: Fishersville 

o    Review a schematic and tour the plant
o    Possible date: Same day as Augusta Landfill and Fishersville recycling facility
o    Length: 1+ hours
o    Cost: Free

• Augusta County Landfill: Fishersville

o    Tour and information about what happens when an item is thrown away.
o    Possible date: Same day as Fishersville Wastewater Treatment Plant and Fishersville Sonoco recycling facility
o    Length: 1 hour
o    Cost: Free

• Sonoco Recycling Facility: Fishersville 

o    Tour and explanations of how items are made ready to be recycled, as well as how and where they are shipped
o    Possible date: Same day as Fishersville Wastewater Treatment Plant and Augusta County Landfill
o    Length:  ½ hour
o    Cost: Free
 

Long Distance Field Trip Options (Choose One)
 

• Rightmire Children’s Museum Daytrip: Lynchburg 

o    Tallest indoor climbing structure in the nation
o    Featuring Onstage: The Rockstar Experience
o    Imagination Studio
o    Length: 5-6 hours
o    Cost: Free for ages 0-1 and all ACM members, $4.50 for ages 2-adult.  $25 lunch room fee would be divided among participants.
 
 OR

• Explore Baltimore Overnight: Baltimore, MD     **These are some of the fun options that are near the Inner Harbor** This would be a Friday-Saturday trip

o    Port Discovery: Baltimore, MD
§    3 story indoor climbing structure
§    Water exploration room
§    Music and drumming room
§    Length: However long the kids want to stay
§    Cost: Free for ages 0-1 and all ACM members, $12.95 for ages 2-adult.

o    Maryland Science Center: Baltimore, MD 
§    Extensive options for hands on scientific exploration
§    Length: However long the kids want to stay
§    Cost: Free for ages 0-2, $7.50 for ages 3-18, $3 for adults

o    American Visionary Art Museum: Baltimore, MD
§    A free thinking educational environment opens the self-taught innovator to a greater range of dynamic possibilities.
§    Many interesting and thought provoking exhibits
§    Length: However long the kids want to stay
§    Cost: Free for 0-6, $5 for ages 7-18, $7 for adults

o    Top of the World: Baltimore, MD
§    View Baltimore from the 27th floor of the Baltimore World Trade Center
§    Photo-map guides to help visitors learn about local attractions, sites and neighborhoods.
§    Cost: Free for 0-2, $2.50 for ages 3-12, $3.75 for 12 and up, including adults

o    Baltimore Public Works Museum: Baltimore, MD
§    Discover what public works does for people.
§    Games, scavenger hunt and water experiment available
§    Length: However long the kids want to stay
§    Cost: Free for 0-5, $2 for ages 6-adult

o    The Baltimore Museum of Industry: Baltimore, MD
§    Many different programs to choose from
§    Hands on historical and engineering activities
§    Length: However long the kids want to stay
§    Cost: Vary greatly

o    Hostel International-Baltimore
§    The cheap place to stay
§    Sleeps a maximum of 49 people
§    Kitchen available for cooking
§    Make your own pancake breakfast provided
§    Length: 1-2 nights
§    Cost: $22 + 13.5% tax per twin bed per night. Adults (18+) add $3 for temporary membership. If we have between 41 and 49 people it will be cheaper to rent the entire hostel.