Not every community is close to a large metro area with a science center or lots of scheduled tours, so…
Find a Field Trip right in your own town, even in rural Iowa communities!
Community Helpers
- Police station
- County Sheriffs office
- Fire department
- State Patrol
- Iowa National Guard
- Hospital
- Veterinarian Clinic
- County Human Society or Animal Rescue League (ARL)
- Veterans society or group VFW Iowa – find a local group in your area. There may be volunteer opportunities to serve the vets or have some come to speak to your class.
- memorials and monuments for famous people or wars
City Municipalities
- City Hall
- Public Works
- Water Treatment Plant
- Recycling center or waste management
- Landfill
- Post Office
- Library
- Airport
Around Town
- nursing home – a great place to give end-of-year presentations, hold a science fair or volunteer
- bank
- grocery store (and I don’t mean when you need food – a real behind-the-scenes tour)
- theater (movie or theatrical)
- TV news station
- radio station (I still remember this one from when I was a kid)
- newspaper
- artist studio
- restaurant (doesn’t every Iowa town have a Casey’s Pizza?)
- bakery
- pet store
- concrete company
- hardware store
- factory (Who remembers Archway cookies in Boone?…yum yum!)
- roller skating rink
- bowling alley
- historic town square
- county courthouse
- county historical one-room schoolhouse
- county historical museum or society
- county historical homes
- county ISU extension office
Outdoors/Nature
- flower shop or plant nursery/green house
- arboretum
- river/stream access
- park or public garden
- county conservation office and nature center
- county ISU extension office
- summer camp (lots of camps will offer day field trips to use trails and other equipment like rappelling)
- farm or orchard
- agricultural co-op or seed company
- State Forest
- State Park
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