Real World Learning!
Field trips can enhance learning, increase interest and help to solidify concepts. Besides all that, they're fun! Join HOME at various locations throughout the year for some real-world learning experiences!
If you need some financial assistance in order to participate in a HOME field trip, please feel free to apply for a scholarship. HOME has a limited amount of funds available for this purpose thanks to some generous donations! Contribute to this fund to support homeschool families in need!
Coming up next...
Farnsworth Art Museum
CAPTURING HER ENVIRONMENT: WOMEN ARTISTS, 1870-1930
This exhibition explores the artistic lives of nine women artists who lived and worked in Maine in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing primarily from the Farnsworth’s permanent collection, it brings together miniatures, still life and landscape painting, and botanical illustrations to celebrate artists who have typically been dismissed as hobby painters or overshadowed by their male artist relatives.
Where: Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland
When: Friday, February 21 or March 7, 2025
Time: 10am - 11:30am
Cost: Free (must pre-register)
Age: All ages
Deadline to Register: February 14, 2025
Recommended unit study: Fine Arts
Mr. Drew & His Animals Too
All of the animals here at our center are rescues and surrenders. Brought into us by all walks of people for all kinds of reasons. We will never turn away a reptile (or any other animal) that is in need.
Every animal we have here has a story and we are able to use that story to help educate about the many and overlooked aspects of exotic pet ownership.
Where: Mr. Drew Education Center
When: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Time: 10am
Cost: $9.50 per person
Age: All ages
Deadline to Register: March 14, 2025
Recommended unit study: Natural History at a Museum Near You
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Join us for an interactive talk/tour of the Ogunquit Museum of Art, learning about landscape art and how to create your own. A Zoom session in March will be followed by a tour of the museum in April.
Where: Ogunquit Museum of American Art
When: Wednesday March 5, 2025 (Interactive Online Introduction)
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 (Museum Visit)
Time: 11am - 12pm for the virtual class
10 - 11:30am for the museum visit
Cost: Free
Age: All ages
Deadline to Register: March 1, 2025
Recommended unit study: Fine Arts
Additional Information
Online Introduction - March 5
Interested in museums and how one landscape can tell 100 stories? Join us for a one-hour Zoom session with Sophie Cordery, Education & Community Outreach Fellow at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA). Sophie will share her journey to working at a museum, explore different museum careers, and introduce OMAA’s exciting landscape-related exhibitions. The session includes a brief art history lecture on how to view landscapes and the American landscape tradition, interactive close-looking exercises, and a sketching activity where you'll create your own landscape. This discussion will set the stage for the museum visit in April.
Museum Visit - April 23
Join us for a tour of the new exhibitions discussed in the Zoom session. Explore landscapes by contemporary artist Nicole Wittenberg, who examines the deep history of landscape painting in the region and her connection to Maine's natural environment. We'll also look at local landscapes by museum founder Henry Strater, reflecting the town’s history as a hub for art schools and environmental discussions in a rapidly modernizing world. Revisit the paintings from the Zoom conversation, compare in-person observations, and take time to sketch the Ogunquit landscape, reflecting on what we see and how the environment makes us feel.
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* HOME Event Refund Policy - Registration fees may be refunded up to the registration deadline for any HOME field trip. No refunds will be made after the registration deadline. In the event that you must cancel, please consider making your fee a donation to HOME rather than requesting a refund! If an event must be canceled or rescheduled for any reason, HOME will notify participants. Refunds will then be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on whether or not the event is rescheduled.
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For More Field Trip Ideas...
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