Class Trips
Experiential learning makes curriculum come alive, creating excitement for students as they develop new perspectives and make personal connections not possible in the classroom.
Starting in middle school and continuing throughout high school, Tesseract students participate in overnight adventures on grade-level class trips revolving around one or more areas of study.
Tesseract’s class trips enable our educators to bring students into the lives of environmentalists, scientists and engineers—such as the fifth-grade trip to California’s YMCA Point Bonita, the sixth-grade trip to Heifer International, the eighth-grade trip to Costa Rica and the sophomore trip to the University of California Santa Barbara, Catalina Island and Six Flags Great America, where students delve into nanotechnology, oceanic chemistry and amusement park physics.
Through class trips, students also get to step into the lives and cultures of people who lived hundreds—and thousands—of years ago, like our seventh-graders, who experience the Freedom Trail and Plimouth Plantation on their trip to the East Coast, and our freshmen, who explore what life was like in ancient Greece and Rome through multidisciplinary projects on their trip to the Mediterranean.
Students’ junior year, global cultures and languages are further explored as their studies take them to South America or China. Senior year, students focus on individual development and professional exploration, as each senior proposes, designs and executes a three-week supervised off-campus project.
By developing compelling and authentic connections between Tesseract School and the larger community, our class trips not only help students connect their learning and individual interests to the world around them, but provide a way for them to discover new passions.
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