Creative Learning Academy expands its curriculum by offering field trips at all grade levels. Field trips bring learning to life, broaden the students’ horizons, and increase their motivation to learn. Field trips also provide unique opportunities for teachers and students to interact outside of the classroom and ignite a student’s desire to learn. These experiences, coupled with a challenging academic program, empower our graduates to become leaders, take healthy risks, and achieve their goals in high school and beyond.
Fifth Grade
We are excited to provide an opportunity for our 5th grade students to visit Tallahassee and St. Augustine on a 3-day trip. Students have an up-close and personal experience with our state government and state history.
Activities may include:
● Tour of the State Capitol
● Glass Bottom Boat Tour at Wakulla Springs
● Castillo de San Marco
● Pirate and Treasure Museum
● Colonial Quarter Tour
● Tour of Flagler College
● Tour Florida Caverns State Park in Marianna, Florida
Sixth Grade
In 6th grade, CLA students spend four days becoming environmental explorers at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. While there, students experience the saltwater marsh ecosystem by dragging seines, catching, and identifying marine animals, and by sieving shoveled-up marsh bottom samples.
Seventh Grade
All seventh grade students have the opportunity to participate in a once in a lifetime trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. The trip lasts four nights and five days. During that time students are immersed in history, culture, and art. Students lay wreaths at the tomb of George Washington and The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. They see George Washington’s Mount Vernon, The United States Capitol, National Archives, The Supreme Court, Library of Congress, Arlington National Cemetery, all the monuments on the National Mall, the Smithsonian Complex, and much more. In Philadelphia, students explore the museum of the American Revolution, Independence Hall, The National Constitution Center, The houses of Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross, and much more. It is truly a once in a lifetime experience led by a Georgetown-trained historian and teacher.
Eighth Grade
Our annual Outward Bound trip is a life-changing experience for CLA students. Students travel to North Carolina for an eight-day outdoor wilderness experience that promotes self-discovery, inspires character development, and impels the students to achieve more than they ever thought possible. One parent said that Outward Bound was the best trip that her daughter could have ever experienced. She said her daughter came home more mature, confident, and ready to conquer the world. For most eighth grade students, this is the most memorable experience of their time at Creative Learning Academy.
The students will also travel to Montgomery, Alabama to visit museums and memorials commemorating the Civil Rights Movement.
Activities may include:
● Peace and Justice Museum
● Rosa Parks Museum
● Dexter Street Baptist Church Parsonage Museum
● Dexter Street Baptist Church
● Show at the Shakespeare Festival
● Tuskegee Airmen National Park
● Historic Tour of Tuskegee University, The Oaks, and George Washington Carver Museum
● Peace and Justice Memorial
● Walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma
