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Homeschoolers have access to many free and fee-based classes to supplement their homeschool education. Some may work for individual families, others are most appropriate for homeschool groups, school groups, scouting troops, and so on.

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 Summer homeschool classes

NM Museum of Natural History. For the 2006 summer season, the museum is offering classes especially for homeschoolers, including prairie dog biology and research, wild mustang week (with horseback riding and overnight camping), fossil hunting, and more. Click for more about these classes.

Explora Children's Science Museum. Is offering classes just for homeschoolers starting in August. These are 14 weekly classes on a variety of topics, depending on the child's age. Click for more about these classes.

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Adventures in Art

Art classes weekends and after school
Phone/contact: Jennifer Mason 681-8485

Albuquerque Bike Safety Program

Free. The City of Albuquerque offers a a bike safety clinic for kids 7-10; bikes, helmets, props, signs, and instructor provided.
Contact info and directions

Albuquerque BioPark: Aquarium & Botanic Garden

Offers free and fee-supported classes for kids.
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Albuquerque BioPark: Zoo

Offers free and fee-supported classes for kids.
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Balloon Museum

Location/directions: Balloon Fiesta Park
Price:
Phone/contact: 761-4005 or http://www.cabq.gov/balloon
Description: Opens Oct 2005. Educational program.

City Parks and Recreation

Location/directions:
Price:
Phone/contact: 768-5300
Description: Will do a presentation on safety and provide a climbing wall with staff. Kids must be 39 inches tall to participate.

Coyote Clay School

Location/directions: 5125 Edith, west of I-25, Montgomery exit.
Price:
Phone/contact:
Description: Tour and hands-on play with clay. Wheel, coil/pinch pots.

Dental hygienists

Location/directions:
Price:
Phone/contact: Professor Nathe, UNM, 272-8147
Description: Hygienist students will meet with group to teach lesson

Ditch and Water Safety

Location/directions:
Price: Free
Phone/contact: Dezaree Vega at 764-4444 ext 227
Description: They will do a Ditch Safety Speech, show a 10 minute video, give a little quiz, hand out incentives, and a coloring book.

Exotics of the Rainforest

Location/directions:
Price:
Phone/contact: 896-3133, Carolyn Newell
Description: An informative visual presentation featuring live parrots, reptiles, snakes and amphibians from the tropical rainforests and deserts of the world.

Explora Science Center

Location/directions: 1701 Mountain Rd NW
Price:
Phone/contact: 224-8300
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Geology and Meteorite Museum

Location/directions: UNM at Northrop Hall, department of Earth and Planetary Sciences on the ground floor at the main entrance.
Price: Free
Phone/contact: 277-2747
Description: Rocks!

Georgia O'Keefe Museum

Location/directions: 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe
Price:
Phone/contact: 946-1007
Description: Art lesson and tour

Gorilla Tango Theater

Location/directions:
Price:
Phone/contact: Suzanne Coors, 681-1712 or 245-8600
Description: field trip to the theatre and improvisation on stage. A parent should come along with each child and everyone (all ages) is welcome to participate or just watch.

Honeywell Technology Solutions/ABQ Seismological Lab

Location/directions: 10002 Isleta Rd SE
Price: Free
Phone/contact: 853-6299
Description: 1-hour guest speaker for grades K and up on seismic data.

Lodestar Planetarium

Location/directions: NM Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW.
Price:
Phone/contact: Lita Sandoval, 841-5958
Description: Sept-Feb are least crowded months for fieldtrips; avoid Thurs & Fri. Need 4-6 weeks advance notice. Teacher guides are available online at www.unm.edu/education.html.

Maxwell Museum

Location/directions: Located off University Blvd just north of Martin Luther King Ave.
Price:
Phone/contact: 277-2924
Description: (1) Guided museum tour, (2) Traveling trunk exhibit with docent, (3) check-out kits.

McGruff Safety Program/APD

Location/directions:
Price:
Phone/contact: 924-3600 or Vicki Miera at 831-4705
Description: Will give a tour, present a lesson on stranger danger or other things that interest us.

Natural History and Science Museum

Location/directions: 1801 Mountain Rd NW
Price:
Phone/contact: 841-2800, http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org, http://www.lodenstar.unm.edu.
Description: Have educational materials online for pre- and post-visit activities.

National Atomic Museum

Location/directions: 1905 Mountain Rd
Price:
Phone/contact: 245-2137 ext. 103
Description: ZOOMzone for Grades K-4th Students can become scientist by trying out cool puzzles and brain teasers and by tackling fun challenges. No more than 25 students on tour. Also have tours for older students. Also has mobile classroom with 90-minute presentation for $100, maximum 25 students.

New Mexico Game and Fish Department

Location/directions:
Price: Free
Phone/contact: Santa Fe 505-476-8095, Kevin Holiday.
Description: (1) Fishing clinic (265-4625, Josephine Graf), or (2) watershed watch (Colleen Welch, 505-476-8119), or (3) Aquatic Resounce Investigations. Have educational wildlife trunks to loan.

New Mexico State University

Location/directions: Will meet at local park.
Price: Free
Phone/contact: Joran Viers (Extension Agricultural Agent), 243-1386 or jviers@nmsu.edu
Description: Talk to kids about seeds and plants, then give them potting soil, pots, and seeds to plant.

Telephone Museum

Location/directions: 110 4th St NW
Price: Under age 12 is 50-cents, everyone else $1
Phone/contact: 842-2937/292-9833
Description: Tour and learning center. They absolutely do not want babies and crawlers along for the tour. They said they are too distracting!

Theobroma Chocolatier

Location/directions: Glenwood Village, 12611 Montgomery NE (just off of Tramway)
Price: $1
Phone/contact: Heidi Weck (owner) 293-6545
Description: Tour and a lesson on the history of chocolate for ages 5 and up. The children get to dip pretzels in chocolate. There is a camera shop next door (TJ's) that also does tours. Sometimes half the group goes to one and half to the other, 30 minutes each, and then they switch.

Turquoise Museum

Location/directions: 2107 Central Ave. NW
Price:$3 per child (free for parents & babies)
Phone/contact: 247-8650
Description: Daily Lapidary Demonstration, Hands-on for Kids

Unser Car Museum

Location/directions: 1776 Montano NW
Price:
Phone/contact: 344-1776 or www.unserracingmuseum.com.
Description: Opens fall 2005.

 

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