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Today’s educational blog post is all about the Tampa Bay Aquarium so I hope you enjoy!

The Tampa Bay Aquarium, established in 1995, offers educational tours a glimpse of the 20,000 aquatic plants and animals from Florida as well as the world. The not-for-profit organization built it’s name and reputation in the beginning years and remains a consistent attraction for travelers and locals alike.

In addition to teacher workshops, field trips and traveling programs, visitors are invited to peruse the simulated wetlands exhibit, a coral reef community as well as a simulated beach. All of these are within a 500,000 gallon tank. Educational student tours will be able to learn about the inspiring natural environment and open their minds to the fascinating underwater world. Beyond the underwater world, the Aquarium’s newest exhibit, Journey to the Madagascar, showcases brightly colored chameleons and ring tailed lemurs, along with hissing cockroaches.

For the more adventurous educational traveler, Stingray Beach offers the chance to touch both stingrays and sharks. There are guest dive programs as well, where the traveler can become part of the live exhibit! At the Wetlands Trail, playful otters explore the waters where many alligators also take up residence. No aquarium would be complete without a penguin exhibit, and Penguins: Backstage Pass provides an excellent glimpse into the bird’s natural habitat. Educational tours will be left with a thorough and fun impression of the waters around us.

Located in the exciting Channel-side District of downtown Tampa, the Aquarium is one of many stops the traveler can put on their lists of things to do during an educational tour.

Until next time,

Jeff.

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We hope you had a great weekend, and are looking forward to reading our new blogs this week. Jeff starts things off for us, so enjoy!

A visit to the Tampa Bay region and all it’s many attractions include some diverse history and culture tours. An educational tour to the Tampa Bay History Center, located in downtown Tampa, offers an in depth look at Florida’s rich and varied past. The Center, which is a Smithsonian Institute Affiliate, offers both permanent exhibits and temporary collections. It is considered one of the premier cultural venues. Educational tours to Tampa can explore the Florida’s First People exhibit, located on the first floor, to learn about some of the artifacts, tools and artwork of Florida’s early people. Also on the first floor is the Cigar City exhibit, which chronicles the immigrant communities and the cigar industry that is so prominent in the Tampa Bay Area.

After lunch of a Cuban sandwich or Spanish bean soup at the Columbia Café, a historic Spanish restaurant located in Ybor City,  a visit to the second floor of the History Center offers more cultural education related to Tampa Bay. “Cowmen and Crackers” highlights Florida’s cattle ranching history, and “Your Tampa Bay” allows visitors to view historic photographs and see significant landmarks around the region. Educational tours to Tampa can peruse the second floor which contains the Witt Research center, a comprehensive collection of state and regional resources. Some of these include census records, rare Florida books and private papers such as manuscripts and journals.
The Center is open daily and also includes student discounts as well as a museum store.

Until next time,

Jeff.

Happy Friday fellow travelers!

Jeff finishes the week off for us with a glimpse into what the National Geographic Museum has in store for its visitors.

Educational tours to Washington, D.C.will be fascinated by visiting the only museum dedicated to the most iconic magazine of the twentieth century, National Geographic. Located at 1145 17th Street, NW on the corner of 17th and M, the National Geographic Museum is in the heart of old Washington and hosts world-class exhibitions, exclusive events, and an inspiring community of explorers. National Geographic has made its home in Washington, D.C. since 1888.

Educational tours to Washington, D.C. that visit the National Geographic Museum will see the world through the eyes of an explorer, learn about the cutting-edge technologies being used to protect and explore our planet, and take in exhibitions showcasing the work of award-winning and world-changing photographers and scientists— all in one place!

Educational student tours to Washington, D.C. will marvel at the thousands of historic photographs displayed in the National Geographic Museum. A fan favorite is from October 1927 (ninety years ago). Members of the National Geographic Society crowded outside Hubbard Hall to receive tickets to a reception honoring Charles Lindbergh who received the nation’s highest honor for explorers, the Hubbard Gold Medal, from President Calvin Coolidge for Lucky Lindy’s solo summer flight to Paris. Heads will spin at the National Geographic Museum on your next educational tour to Washington, D.C.

Have a great weekend,

Jeff.

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Educational tours to Washington, D.C. often visit Ford’s Theatre where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday in 1865. Right across the street from Ford’s Theatre is Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, the twelfth Madame Tussaud’s venue worldwide. It opened in October of 2007 and features wax sculptures of famous figures from politics, culture, sports, music and television. All forty-five American presidents are displayed. The current inhabitant of the White House appears as himself. The museum contains several themed rooms where visitors are allowed and encouraged to look at, touch and take photographs next to popular public figures on their next educational tour to Washington, D.C.

Educational tours to Washington, D.C. which visit Madame Tussaud’s will see, besides the Presidents’ Gallery, a Civil Rights Room dedicated to those who fought for African-American freedom, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. A Glamour Room set in a nightclub scene features A-list celebrities like Michael Jackson, Goorge Clooney and Beyoncé. The Media Room is set in a television studio and features personalities like Oprah Winfrey, Larry King and Stephen Colbert. A Sports Gallery features stars from several sports like Tiger Woods, Babe Ruth and Mohammed Ali. An interactive gallery shows visitors how wax figures are made and is a highlight of every educational tour to Washington, D.C.

See you on Friday,

Jeff.

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Educational tours to Washington, D.C. don’t often visit the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, also known as the United States National Arboretum. The museum is located at 3501 New York Avenue, NE. It is undoubtedly one of Washington’s key attractions for plant lovers. If you and your students are into exotic plant life, this is the place for you. You will want to budget ample time to see the specimens and gardens at a leisurely pace. The miniature masterpieces of bonsai and penjing are the pinnacle of gardening skill, and the museum has one of the largest collections of these timeless trees in North America for your next educational tour to Washington, D.C.

Educational tours to Washington, D.C. will discover that the Japanese art of bonsai, and its precursor, the Chinese art of penjing, are rooted in the traditions of Asian culture. The placement of branches, styling, and the pot all convey deep symbolism and reverence for nature. Opening in 1976 to help celebrate America’s bicentennial, the collection has grown to house three pavilions of about 150 plants. An old sage once opined to slow down, and stop to smell the flowers. This is good advice for your next educational tour to Washington, D.C. at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum.

Until next time,

Jeff.

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Educational tours to Washington, D.C. will enjoy a slight diversion from the usually seen sites by stopping at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History. It is located at 1811 R Street and was chartered by an act of Congress in 1958 to document and preserve the contributions of Jewish Americans to the peace and freedom of the United States by educating the public to the courage, heroism and sacrifices made by Jewish Americans who served in the armed forces. The museum also works to combat anti-Semitism. Social Studies teachers grappling with how to teach the Holocaust will benefit from visiting here on their next educational tour to Washington, D.C.

Educational tours to Washington, D.C. will find four permanent exhibitions that anchor the museum: a core exhibit examining the role of Jews in the American military from the Colonial era to today, a Hall of Heroes devoted to Jewish Medal of Honor recipients, and two exhibits dedicated to the memories of individual men, Major General Julius Klein and Captain Joshua L. Goldberg. Besides the permanent exhibits, the museum contains over five thousand artifacts collected from nearly every American military conflict, with the bulk relating to World War II. Students and teachers alike will be moved to tears at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History on their next educational tour to Washington, D.C.

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Jeff.

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Educational tours to Washington, D.C. can take a patriotic trip down Memory Lane at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Located at the Washington Navy Yard, 805 Kidder Breese Street SE, the museum was established in 1961 under the administration of President John F. Kennedy, a naval veteran of World War II. It opened to the public in 1963 and is one of fourteen naval museums throughout the country. It is the only one that presents an overview of American naval history. The National Museum of the U.S. Navy collects, preserves, displays, and interprets historic naval artifacts and artwork to inform, educate, and inspire naval personnel and the general public on educational tours to Washington, D.C.

Educational tours to Washington, D.C. will observe permanent and temporary exhibitions commemorating the Navy’s wartime heroes and battles as well as its peacetime contributions in exploration, diplomacy, navigation and humanitarian service. Known for over fifty years as the flagship museum of the U.S. Navy, the National Museum of the U.S. Navy celebrates a legacy of educating the public. In the tradition of its predecessors on the Washington Navy Yard beginning in 1865, the current museum features a collection that dates from 1800 that will awe every educational tour to Washington, D.C.

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Jeff.

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Middle school trips to Washington, D.C. can be fun and educationally rewarding for both girls and boys with a stop at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, located at 1250 New York Avenue NW. Founded in 1981 as a private, non-profit museum devoted to the appreciation of female artists, Wallace and Wilhelmina Cole Holladay supplied the core of the paintings and other forms of women’s art from their personal collection. Special exhibitions were also presented. In 1983 the museum purchased an almost eighty thousand square-foot landmark near the White House, a former Masonic Temple, and refurbished it in accordance with the highest design, museum and security standards. It has won numerous architectural awards and is sure to wow even the more difficult classes taking middle school trips to Washington, D.C.

Educational trips to Washington, D.C. will marvel at the greatest collection of art created by women assembled anywhere. Thirty years ago the NMWA opened the doors of its permanent location with the inaugural exhibition, American Women Artists from 1830-1930, a definitive survey curated by one of the country’s foremost feminist art historians, Dr. Eleanor Tufts. There is no other museum like this in the world and will surely dazzle your next middle school trip to Washington, D.C.

Until next time,

Jeff.