…you’ve got a great choice of field trips with deep significance to Texas history. Explorers, missionaries, and revolutionary colonists converged here, and you can see where the action took place!
Of course, you could start in San Antonio. (I LOVE San Antonio, something that will probably become obvious as you read this blog.) If you are able to plan a Texas History field trip over a long weekend, you wouldn’t run out of things to see and do! (Check the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau for information.) Of course there’s the Alamo and four other historic Spanish missions. Perhaps less well known is the Institute of Texas Cultures, displaying the best aspects of all the many people groups who now call themselves Texans. And the The Witte Museum has an excellent walk-through diorama depicting the geographical regions of our state, as well as a display of Texas’ first nations—the indigenous tribes.
Take a week-end driving tour of the earliest Spanish colonies, or a Texas Independence tour as you learn the story of the battle of the Revolution at the Gonzales Memorial Museum, or visit the Star of the Republic Museum and Independence Hall at Washington-on-the-Brazos, or see Presidio La Bahia at Goliad. If time allows, you might include the San Jacinto Museum of History in La Porte. These are great places to introduce students to the sweeping saga of our state.
If your family enjoys interactive learning, try the Barrington Living History Farm near Washington-on-the-Brazos.
I’ve collected great field trips from all over Texas in my Family Field Trip Guide. They’re sorted by region…great to have on hand for reference whenever you travel!
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