Posts by Emily Carter
The best environmental education centers are usually found where the pavement gives out. They sit at the edge ...
Planetarium Field Trip Transportation for School Groups
A planetarium show has something no other field trip destination has: a door that closes when the lights go do...
Zoo Field Trip Bus Planning: Arrival Groups and End-of-Day Headcounts
Ask any teacher who has led a zoo trip what keeps them up the night before, and the answer is rarely the anima...
Aquarium Field Trip Transportation: A Timeline for Teachers
An aquarium visit looks simple on the permission slip: get on the bus, see the sharks, come home. In practice,...
School Farm Visits by Bus: Planning Rural Access and Student Loading
Most field trip routes are planned from a street address. Farm trips are decided by the last half mile. The hi...
Charter Bus Transportation for School STEM Industry Tours
A science museum is built for visitors. A semiconductor fab, a water treatment plant or a hospital research la...
School Career Exploration Trips: Planning Visits to Multiple Employers
"Can we visit four employers in one school day?" School counselors and career coordinators ask this question e...
School Journalism Convention Transportation for Student Delegations
Every journalism student learns to put the most important facts first. So here is the lede: the transportation...
Marching Band Parade Transportation: Arrival, Unloading and Post-Parade Pickup
A parade route has two ends, and most band trips are planned for only one of them. Directors spend weeks on dr...
School Orchestra Trips: How to Plan Passenger and Instrument Transportation
Here is a question that catches many orchestra directors off guard: how many cubic feet does your orchestra ta...
School Theater Competition Transportation: Costumes, Props and Cast Members
Ask any high school stage manager when a competition performance really begins, and you will not hear "when th...
Academic Decathlon Bus Trips: A Transportation Checklist for Coaches
Academic Decathlon coaches wear a lot of hats. You teach economics on Monday, run a mock interview on Tuesday,...