Where
Apple Store
710 West Main Avenue
River Park Square
​Downtown Spokane

Bring your aspiring entrepreneurs to this technology focussed trip. What yours student will do: Create an amazing project. Your students can use the equipment and apps in the Apple Store (Mac or iPad - you choose) to learn new skills, enhance their app knowledge, or get their questions answered.  For the last part of this activity there is an optional "Show and Tell" time where your students can showcase their projects on a large monitor to the rest of the students on the field trip.  

When
Monday, June 20, 2016, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This hike is about 2 hours long but since its out and back you can make it as long or as short as you want it to be. This hike's turn around point is a creek and waterfall so you can stay and play as long as you want. 

Where: 
Park your car and meet at the intersection of W Hartson Ave and South H Street in Spokane.  Whittier Park is very near this intersection and it has a bathroom.  The park is just North of Sunset Blvd and West of Government Way. Map

We'll begin with a "Scat & Snacks" animal signs activity. In a zoo, there are signs that tell you what animal to look for, such as “Moose.” But in their natural habitat, animals don't stand next to a sign that labels them. However they do leave us clues as to who was there, in the form of scat. Come learn to identify some Indian Canyon inhabitants by their scat. Just like a naturalist, look for real scat and tracks on our hike. We will give each scientist-in-training marshmallows, jelly beans and other foods, which have the same size and shape as some animal scat.

The hike goes through the woods and around the Indian Canyon Golf Course, crosses a road and goes into Indian Canyon Conservation Futures property. Along the way we'll stop briefly to play a game called Hug-A-Tree. There is a waterfall and creek on Indian Canyon Creek with a bit of a cave next to it. The trail down to the bottom of the waterfall is a bit rugged. It is a 3 mile trail  with some ups and downs (the kind you can often get kids to run up and down for fun).  

When
Friday, May 15, 2015, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM

Where
Coeur d' Alene's Old Mission State Park
31732 S. Mission Rd
Exit 39 at I-90
Cataldo, ID 83810

Come explore the history and nature of Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park in Cataldo, ID!  The Coeur d' Alene's Old Mission State Park spotlights the oldest building in Idaho. The Mission of the Sacred Heart was constructed between 1850 and 1853 by Catholic missionaries and members of the Coeur d' Alene Tribe. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Sacred Heart Mission and the Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park provide an educational experience not found anywhere else, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the dynamics and complexities between Jesuit missionaries and the tribal people among whom they settled in a beautiful park setting.  The park features the Sacred Heart Mission church, a restored Parish House and a historic cemetery. 

When
Monday, March 2, 2015, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Thursday, March 5, 2015, 9:30 am - 11:00 am

Where
The PET Shop, a grey workshop building across the street from the "Riverview Farms" sign, across the road from 1812 E. Riverview Dr, Colbert, WA. Park in front of the building that says "PET Shop" on it.

Personal Energy Transportation are amazingly simple vehicles but their impact is life changing. You will learn about the ministry of PET and how your family can be involved. PET's mission: Personal Energy Transportation (PET) International seeks to reflect the love of Jesus Christ by bringing the gift of mobility and dignity to those in developing countries who are unable to walk. PET's main objectives: promotion of PET vehicles, coordination of PET production sites, and assistance in the dissemination of vehicles to international agencies/sponsors.

When
Friday, September 19, 2014, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Where
Meet in Riverfront Park, outside of the power house building, which is adjacent to the Spokane River, next to the bulletin board, next to the narrow pedestrian bridge. The building is between parking lot 6 (off of Post Street) and the IMAX Theater.
507 N Howard St, Spokane
Directions and Parking and Park Map
The park map doesn't show the power house building but Google maps does.

Engineering and sciences come alive when you explore them at a dam.  A Hydro Safety, Security & EAP Coordinator and a Chief Operator from Avista's Upper Falls dam are our tour guides as we see spill water, the power house, the control room, the generator deck, and the dam and all the construction and maintenance workers it takes to keep producing hydroelectricity for our area.

When
Friday, August 29, 10:00 am - 11:00 am (or whenever you want to finish)

Where
The Saint George's School Story Trail is located on the property of St. George's School, 2929 West Waikiki Road, Spokane.  Map/Directions/Parking

This is the FIRST ever reading nature trail in Spokane, built and maintained by students! FREE to the public and sponsored by Saint George's School. Every month they put out a new story to read.  Read about it in the Spokesman Review here.  We will meet at the trail head, next to the sign that says, "Saint George's School Story Trail."  We will hike the ¼ mile Story Trail and read the pages of the story along the way.  After the Story Trail, your family can continue hiking with us through the hills and forests behind St. George's School on Riverside State Park trails.  Saint George's School is adjacent to Riverside State Park land.  The Riverside State Park trail is out and back, so simply turn around whenever you need to.

Where: 
Buck Knives
660 S. Lochsa Street
Post Falls, ID

When:
July 29, 2014, 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Discover how Buck Knives are made and learn about all the different types of items this factory makes.  The Buck Knives Factory has an impressive amount and variety of preserved animals and Buck history in a small museum-type section of their building.  Be sure to stop by the Buck Knives Factory store area of their facility!

When
Thursday, May 1, 2014, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Where
C&S Hydro Huts, a Hydroponic Farm
21919 E Rowan Ave, Otis Orchards,  WA  99027

What is Hydroponics?  Hydroponic plants are grown in water instead of soil.  All of the nutrients they need are circulated directly to the roots.  This enables plants to spend less energy on creating root systems and more energy on developing fruits, flowers, and leaves.  
What are the advantages?  We can produce up to 1000 heads of lettuce per week using 25% less space and 90% less water than traditional farming methods.  And we can do this 365 days a year. We’re not depleting soil resources, we use no artificial chemicals as fertilizer or weed control, and there’s nearly zero waste.

When
Friday, May 31, 2013, 9:45 am - 1:00 pm

Where
Riverfront Park, IMAX Theater
Spokane, WA 99201

We begin our historic journey with an IMAX movie about Lewis  & Clark. It was the dawn of a nation -- a time before the American West became known as the frontier, and little was known about what lay within. Two captains, courageous in spirit and unyielding in their dedication to their mission, led 31 people, including one woman and her infant son, to the Pacific Ocean and back. Now, 200 years after the launch of the expedition, this breathtaking drama is captured for audiences in the newest large-format release from National Geographic. Audiences will experience the danger and beauty of the unknown West as it unfolded before the eyes of Lewis and Clark.

Next we travel onward to the picnic tables in Riverfront Park for a sack lunch.

Finally we embark on fabulously fun and exciting educational activities to help us learn even more about the adventures of Lewis & Clark.  

• We'll make our own compasses, like Lewis & Clark would have done.
  
• We'll learn to measure distance by dead reckoning, just like William Clark.
  
• We'll figure out how to measure speed in knots (as if we were in a boat.)
  
• We'll discover how to draw a map like a Mandan American Indian leader.
  

When
Monday May 27, 2013 from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM PDT
 
Where
Camp Dart-Lo
14000 N Dartford Dr, Spokane, WA 99208

Come hungry for fun!  We have a full hour of educational activities planned for this outdoor time at Camp Fire's Camp Dart-Lo property.  Since Camp Dart-Lo is on the Little Spokane River, we'll explore water sciences, even making our own water scopes and creating edible aquifer models.  Animal science will be exciting and tasty on our nature walk.  Our ecology activities will be truly wild.