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Student Travel Options: Duck Tours of Great American Historic Cities

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Duck Tours are a popular way for student groups to see Philadelphia by land or on the Delaware River.

Students who travel around the world have been enjoying America’s Duck Tours.  This is one of the most unique historic tour experiences you will find yourself climbing on board for in America’s hottest cities.  These WWII amphibious landing vehicles drive through streets while tour guides point out America’s treasured historic sites, then hop in the water to see the city from another perspective –by waterway.  Children and adults alike love Duck Tours. In Philadelphia, everyone gets their own duck quacking whistle, and learns something about American history with the most fun possible.
When visiting the East Coast, consider taking the Duck Tours in Philadelphia, Washington D.C. or Boston.  These professional tours are led by informative and skilled public speakers who love their jobs and the cities they live in – showing off the riches of Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Boston to student travel groups.
There was a Duck Tour of New York City, but it was discontinued, much to student travelers dismay.  Hopefully another Duck Tour of NYC will emerge again soon.
Philadelphia Duck Tour: City Of Liberty
An educational travel company representative should purchase Duck Tour tickets in advance of touring to ensure the student travel group secures enough seats.  These high view Duck Tour seats offer a premium vantage for seeing some of the most dramatic sites of America’s fight for independence.  See where the founding fathers forged and signed the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin’s first print shop, and Betsy Ross’s house where she sewed the first stars and stripes to Old Glory.  Then drive right into the water at Penn’s Landing and float down the Delaware River to see Washington’s Crossing, one of the most dramatic stories of a struggling young nation’s courageous first generals, making his place in history to become America’s first president.
Student Travel Groups go to Washington DC to Study the Seat of Freedom
Board the Duck Tour of Washington D.C. at Union Station where you will drive by America’s most visited house: The White House.  The tour provides snippets of fascinating audio news clips as well as some of the most important speeches by the likes of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  The American Capitol has never had a more interesting tour down Pennsylvania Avenue. Driving by some of the finest architecture of any nation in the world, heads turn to see the Duck vehicle, a unique addition to city streets.  Student groups will remember seeing the famous Washington Monument from the water.  Coast down the Potomac River to see the flowering cherry trees in the spring, a vision of beauty millions of people travel from all over the world to see, but no one will see them quite like this, unless they take a Duck Tour.

Boston’s Duck Tour Gives a Unique Perspective of American History
Student trips to Boston, Massachusetts are more exciting when they include Duck Tours. From Bunker Hill to the Battery Wharf, come see Boston as many patriots and new arrivals in Boston saw it at first glance – from a ship. See the site of famous Bostonian Mary Barrett Dyer’s hanging, executed for her religious beliefs in 1660.  Ride by the magnificent Old State House and Longfellow Bridge – just a couple of the other historic landmarks you will also get to visit.  See the famous Boston pub Cheers, made notorious by its popular television sitcom.  After driving through the streets of Boston, student groups on the Duck Tour plunge into the world famous Charles River for a view of Boston and Cambridge no other tour could possibly present to the group.
Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. are not the only cities that offer Duck Tours.  Seattle, San Francisco, Branson and Austin, as well as some other U.S. destinations, also provide the opportunity to take Duck Tours.  Students and teachers say that taking Duck Tours is the most fun and exciting educational experience out there today.  There is no better way to spend time with classmates and learn about history when visiting these great American cities. Be sure to ask a student travel group leader to put a Duck Tour on the itinerary.   http://www.studenteducationaltoursofatlanta.com

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Student Trips

Selecting a destination for your next class trip

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A class trip to Washington, DC or New York City does more for students than simply bringing your curriculum to life. It also creates the chance for students to form strong bonds with their peers, step out of their comfort zone, and give them the opportunity to see new and exciting places.
Gettysburg and Washington, DC
This year marks the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. This event offers student groups a rare chance to gain insight into one of the Civil War’s most crucial events. Due to the close proximity of both historic sites, class trips to Washington D.C. can also include a tour of Gettysburg. Both excursions offer various opportunities for interactive learning.
During 2013, special events part of the Gettysburg festivities are expected to occur for most of the year. On November 19, 2013, there will be an official ceremony that includes the U.S Marine Corp band, and guest keynote speaker.
The road from Gettysburg to Washington D.C. is full of American history. Once you arrive in DC, your group will see iconic monuments and buildings and a multitude of educational attractions. In a few square miles you and your students can visit the Capitol, a dozen world-class museums and numerous monuments and memorials.
New York City
If a tour of New York City is what you have in mind – your students will not be disappointed. There are so many things to see and do here that many people live their lives within the city and can never see it all. From the first moment your students arrive in Times Square and experience the rush of the city around them, they’ll know that New York is like no other. From there, you can design your NYC tour to supplement your curriculum.
Whether you want to introduce language and culture, theater, a literary, art, or culinary tour, there are so many “flavors” of NYC that you can introduce to your students.

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Student Trip to Washington D.C. to Study History

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For a year leading up to the student Washington D.C. trip, teacher Michelle Rochel prepares her students for the journey in her classroom. She currently teaches 5th and 6th grade Religion, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade Social Studies and Science. She is also the Middle School Coordinator and Dean of Students at Saint Anne Catholic School in Somerset, Wisconsin.  For the past ten years, Rochel has been taking her students to Washington D.C. where they can learn firsthand about American history.
Student Trip to Washington D.C. Enhances Classroom Studies
“I think this is something every child should experience,” said Rochel. “I am grateful for the opportunity to bring them to Washington D.C. and have them be witnesses to history,” she added.  The trip enhances their studies of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. presidents and the Holocaust, to name just a few aspects of American history covered.
To pay for travel expenses, students and parents engage in fundraising beginning sometimes two years prior to the Washington D.C. trip. “Right now, we are one-fourth of the way towards our fundraising goals,” commented Rochel.
Students View the Holocaust Museum Exhibits
One of the most memorable parts of the trip included a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  When the group visited the Holocaust Museum, “They were speechless,” recalled Rochel.  “In the classroom, we went in depth in our studies of Holocaust victims and survivors. At this museum they could see the human faces that went into these stories. It will be something they never forget.”  The powerful, graphic images of mass extermination of the Jewish people and others Hitler deemed outcasts are a great deal to process.  The interactive exhibits at the museum as well as personal stories gathered from survivors make the information accessible and the experience authentic.
Newseum Well-Loved by Students and Teacher
The student group also visited the Newseum — right in the heart of Washington D.C. This museum is equipped with state-of-the-art multimedia delivery of historical information.  All major media news sources are represented with interactive exhibits. Video, audio, photographic and written information is presented for easy assimilation. Excerpts from interesting and volatile periods in American history are featured.  Rochel said, “All of the kids were able to find something in the Newseum of interest, whether it was sports, world news, current events, or other topics that intrigued them.  There was something for everyone in the Newseum.  I am hoping to include this museum on our next Washington D.C. trip.”
Rochel’s students visited many other places in Washington D.C., including the Smithsonian American and Natural History Museums, the National Archives, Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol Building, the White House Photo Shop, Mount Vernon, the Air and Space Museum and the National Zoo.  They also attended mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.   This ambitious itinerary was well worth it, especially because some of Rochel’s students have never been on an airplane, or to the East Coast.  “They return with a deeper appreciation and a better understanding of their own history,” said Rochel.
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Centennial Olympic Park Atlanta GA

Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta Georgia: A Visit to Georgia Aquarium for Student Travel Groups

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Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta is a hub of educational and historical information for student travel groups. It was originally built for the 1996 Centennial Olympics. After the Olympics the park was closed and redesigned for public use. It reopened in 1998. Student travel groups will want to take a walking tour of Centennial Olympic Park. A lush Great Lawn in the center of the park is surrounded by commemorative quilts from the Olympic bombings, the Quilt of Nations, and The Fountain of Rings. If time allows, student groups will also want to visit one of the attractions surrounding it. The Georgia Aquarium, World of Coke, or CNN Center will be of interest to student travel groups.
The challenge for an educator is to decide which destination is most desirable and educational. The choice will depend upon the student travel group and the curriculum they’re following. With proper scheduling, groups may be able to visit all three. Or, if a custom itinerary requires only one of these venues, a tour of Centennial Olympic Park along with a trip to the Georgia Aquarium may be the best choice.
Some Background on the Georgia Aquarium
In this blog, I will give more details about the Georgia Aquarium. In future blogs I will highlight the World of Coke and CNN Center Tour. Georgia Aquarium is a great choice for an educational group because a visit here engages students by providing a glimpse into marine life. Students who do not live anywhere near a body of water such as an ocean or a bay will gain a great deal from the visit because they can witness aquatic life up close and personal. The Georgia Aquarium is the world’s largest and most engaging aquarium.
Lesson Plans for Teachers and Aquatic Fact Sheets
Georgia Aquarium has excellent educational programs in place for student travel groups. The organization supplies teachers with Aquatic Fact Sheets that give an overview of information about the Georgia Aquarium and the exhibits. Lesson Plans are also available for grades K-12.
Learning Loop Educational Experience
This student tour is designed to help students to understand aquatic systems and their make-up. An environmental educator, on staff with the Georgia Aquarium, provides students with a tour that describes the exhibits and the animal husbandry and the roles they play in tending the marine life. In order to replicate actual aquatic ecosystems, a great deal of work goes into exhibits for the upkeep of marine life. The Learning Loop Educational Experience is a great way to help students appreciate this work, and understand its importance in the science of marine biology.
Aqua Adventure
For teachers who wish to be the guide on their student tour of the Georgia Aquarium, Aqua Adventures may be the tour to select. An educator may download a teacher guide for the appropriate grade level in advance of the tour. Then the educator takes students on a tour through the main aquarium. There are plenty of interactive activities on Aqua Adventures, as well as age appropriate questions for students to answer. For a small additional fee per student, groups have the option of adding the Titantic Aquatic program (through May 2009). Actual artifacts from the wreck of the Titantic as well as narratives of survivors are incorporated into this exhibit.
Centennial Olympic Park is filled with an assortment of excellent choices in destinations for student travel groups. This overview of the Georgia Aquarium highlights educational aspects and is by no means a complete picture of what it has to offer the public. Call us today 888-320-1115  Student Educational Tours of Atlanta

A Happy Student

Montreal was a really interesting experience. It was quite stressful at first because we didn't have any access to internet - but were trying to meet up with friends in the city. It took a while but eventually we managed to use free wi-fi on a bus to meet up with a local Montreal study who is also going on exchange to Warsaw! Our university in Warsaw has made a Facebook group for incoming winter semester exchange students, so a lot of us have already added each other and hence why I was in contact with him. We were absolutellyyyy spoilt again as the guy, David, spent hours and hours and hours walking around Montreal with us showing us the wonderful city! Even though he recently sustained an injury to his foot! We got to see two of the big universities in the city, McGill and Concordia, as well as the Old Montreal Town, Old Port and a vast amount of the CBD. One of the most interesting parts about being in Montreal was that everything was in French. Matt has been in countries where the main language is not English, but I haven't! So it was quite bizarre seeing a different language everywhere. Despite having studied French for ages, I was too rusty to actually use any of it :( but luckily everyone can speak good English too which was helpful.

Old Montreal was a really cool place. And it was big too - lots of little streets, an old port, open spaces around churches and so on. We also went to "Five Guys, Burgers and Fries" (for those who don't know, it's a yummy burger place we found in the U.S.). It was funny because in Montreal the whole menu was in French and the title of the place was "Five Guys, Hamburgers et frites", so it obviously didn't have the same rhyme… In Montreal we found a lot of cool arty things as well, such as multi-coloured fountains and big modern sculptures - a lot of which were amongst the old buildings, so that was a cool contrast.

We also coincidentally hung out with a family friend of Matt who was on exchange from Otago and studying in McGill. She had just arrived in Montreal and saw that we were in the U.S. and asked if we were coming anywhere near Canada. We told her that we were arriving in Montreal the next day! Haha. So we also hung out with her for a bit and went for a burger, looked around the city, etc. It was nice seeing her and speaking with another kiwi about impressions of the city!

So we did Montreal quite quickly, but that's ok since we feel like we saw most of what you would go to see as a tourist. We caught a bus at 1030pm-ish. If you guys didn't know already, we are ABSOLUTELY exhausted at this moment - as we've had barely any sleep in the past few days - especially with only about three hours on the bus ride into Montreal!

New York

We got to the U.S. border at about 1am - we had to get off the bus whilst they searched our bags and we had to check in with immigration. It was pretty frustrating because we knew we had very limited time to get any sleep whilst we were on the bus since we were expected to arrive in New York around 6:30am. We actually arrived about half an hour early -_- We spent a while sitting in the bus station because we were a bit disoriented about what to do and where to go. So we sat around for a while, grabbed some breakfasts, freshened up then walked to our hostel - the New York Budget Inn. Unfortunately because it was only like 7am we couldn't check in to our room yet, so we dumped our stuff in the luggage room and decided to go exploring. We ended up buying this 72 hour hop-on hop-off bus tour pass which is been REALLY good value for money. It also includes a four different tour routes in NY, such as downtown and Brooklyn, a night bus tour, a boat cruise around the statue of liberty, and a discount card for food and activities in various locations throughout New York! If anyone of you come to New York - we got our pass with the New York City Sights company (usually see them in yellow shirts, blue buses). It was supposed to cost like $99, so make sure you bargain with them because they drop the price quickly if you moan about being poor and say no. We ended up getting it for $59 which is definitely worth 72 hours of entertainment as well as quick transport around New York.

Our first tour was of the downtown area - which included Times Square, the Financial District (Wall Street), China Town, Ground Zero, and so on. It's really good because we had great tour guides speaking the whole time, telling us what things are, pointing out cool architecture, celebrity gossip and lots of joking along the way.

After this tour we hung around in Times Square for a bit longer. There was a massive Samsung Galaxy stage and heaps of people wearing blue or white caps saying Samsung'" on it. Matt and I hung around for a while to see what was going on and before we knew it, we were wearing the hats too and listening to them unveiling the new Samsung smart phone watch as well as a live concert - right in the middle of Times Square!!!

It gets crazier though. We also won tickets to be in the audience of the Late Show with David Letterman whilst we were just walking along the street. The problem is we couldn't take our backpacks, so we quickly ate lunch at Olive Garden (yam) and pretty much ran home, checked in, changed our clothes and got back JUST in time to make the show. It was really great watching it all and being a part of it! We need to get hold of the episode because we will be in it clapping away haha. However there was a very strict rule that no photos were allowed to be taken while the show was being recorded, which was a shame because we could have taken some really cool shots.

We carried on our sightseeing after the show finished. WE headed down to Grand Central Station and the Public Library. Both had absolutely beautiful architecture - in fact we've noticed that most of Manhattan Island does - there's either very old looking buildings with crazy designs or super sleek, modern buildings. After this we decided to sit down in Bryant Park for a while to relax and rest our feet.

We decided to do the night tour with our hop on hop off pass which was impressive too. We did all of the downtown area again but in the dark, and also went over Manhattan Bridge and throughout Brooklyn - including the coast of Brooklyn which gave us an AMAZING view of Manhattan Island. We are definitely going to go back to take some better photos because it was really stunning.

So we are now going to enjoy a good sleep for the first time in a while. Last night we only got about three hours after a poor attempt to sleep on the bus, and the night before was about three hours too with our late flight from the west coast to the east. We have also been walking an average of nine hour days for the past four days so we are really pushing our boundaries at the moment!

We're not sure what the plan for tomorrow will be. Most likely we will do the boat cruise to see the statue of liberty, and then do the bus tours around central park and the upper east side of Manhattan (where GOSSIP GIRL IS SET)… We also managed to bargain with a guy selling comedy show tickets so tomorrow night we are going to go and watch some stand-up comedy for a mere $10 each. So I'm sure there will be a lot to write about again.

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Good Day from Atlanta,


Student Educational Tours of Atlanta would like the opportunity to be your schools travel company of choice. Please visit us at http://www.studenteducationaltoursofatlanta.com/ or call us 888-320-1115 and lets build long lasting memories together.

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Student Educational Tours of Atlanta
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Leonard Frank G.
Learning Through Travel
http://www.studenteducationaltoursoftlanta.com
Twitter:  @studentedutours
Blog:  Studentedutours.blogspot.com