Nations Classroom Blog

When it comes to learning about the Holocaust, many middle and high school students are usually introduced to it by reading the Diary of Anne Frank, watching the Boy in the Striped Pajamas, or reading Elie Wiesel’s Night.

A visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum brings one of the most horrific events of the 20th Century to life.

One of our more southern student tour destinations is Charleston, South Carolina. The beautiful city is located on the east coast and is steeped in history. Student groups can visit Boone Hall or Magnolia Plantation to learn more about southern history, or they can spend time at Fort Sumter and the U.S.S. Yorktown to experience military history first hand. 

Charleston is also an amazing destination for school trips focused on science and STEM. If you're looking for a field trip that will teach your students about ecology, wildlife conservation, and environmental science, the Barrier Island Eco Tour would fit perfectly in your itinerary.

Colonial Virginia is only a few hours from Washington, D.C., but is often overlooked by school groups who would rather travel to New England. While our New England destinations are incredible, there is still a lot to be said for the Historic Triangle!

Colonial Virginia offers more than just lessons in history. Times of war are often times of advancements in science, engineering, and technology. By studying these concepts in a historical context, students discover how advancements are made! Here are our top five favorite Colonial Virginia Tour sites for student groups.

June is here, the summer solstice has come and gone, and most teachers are officially on summer vacation.  Nothing is more important for teachers than taking some time for self-care and relaxation before the next school year begins in September (or at least before the “Back to School” signs come out in mid-July). 

But before you completely disconnect for summer, here are three easy steps you can take to make sure the next school year begins smoothly. And it won’t take you longer to do than one episode of HGTV’s House Hunters.  I promise. So open up a blank google doc or take out your bullet journal and reflect on these three questions...

If you have visited Gettysburg National Park, you've seen at least one of the 1,328 monuments, markers, and memorials that are on display across the historic battlefield. You may have even seen one of them any statues of generals mounted on horseback.

But have you heard the urban legend of the horse statue hoof symbolism?

Airline travel with your students was stressful enough without a pandemic, but now there are added levels of uncertainty. 

Many parents and teachers are asking what airport and airline safety looks like now, after months of quarantine. Instead of simply tell you what we've heard, we had some of our staff members travel themselves and report their findings to us.

If you're interested in learning about motor coach travel, travel best practices, or hotel safety updates check out our Facebook for our previous interviews. 

All school trips are incredible opportunities for students to grow and learn new things about the world around them. If you want your students to experience new cultures, New York City is a perfect fit.

Class trips to New York are some of the best opportunities to bring math, science, and engineering to life outside the classroom. A city of skyscrapers, New York is a showcase for unparalleled architecture, design, and technology innovation. Here are six museums in New York City to add to your next school trip itinerary. 

After this pandemic, what will hotels and other accommodations look like for student travel? 

Like all other aspects of student travel, we're still figuring it out. Over the past few weeks we've been researching and talking with student travel industry experts to learn about what travel will look like in a post-Covid19 world. 

If you're interested in learning about motor coach travel or travel best practices, check out our Facebook for our previous interviews. 

Happy Independence Day from our team at NationsClassroom Tours. Wherever you're located, we hope you're enjoying the day with family, friends, and barbecue. 

Even though we celebrate Independence Day on the fourth of July, there have been disagreements about the "true" independence day since 1776!

If you asked the Founding Father's when American's Independence Day should be celebrated, you'd likely receive many different answers.