Field Trip Help!

[mhscogin]

I am a high school history teacher. We are planning to take a group of 35 teenagers to gettysburg in the spring for a field trip. The school district I work in has a lot of poverty. My goal is for each student to have to pay at least half the cost. The need skin in the game. But I need some ideas of how to help raise funds to off set the cost of the trip for each student. I have applied for a grant from the American Battlefield trust. But I was wondering if anyone on here could give me some ideas or information where I may apply for more grants. I teach at a small rural high school in NE Georgia

 

[pmuskett]

I will do the tour for no charge. Just need the date. Spring is very busy with school groups.

Send me a private message and I will see what I can do up here to help you out.

 

[Championhilz]

Have you thought about starting a Gofundme page? The Civil War community is pretty generous, if you put the word out what you are raising money for you might do well with contributions.

 

[mhscogin]

I will do the tour for no charge. Just need the date. Spring is very busy with school groups.

Send me a private message and I will see what I can do up here to help you out.

Thank you so much. I may contact you with details soon and see what we can work out

 

[mhscogin]

Hey fellow civil war buffs! Your suggestions to help with the field trip I am planning with my students has been so helpful. Franklin County High School in Carnesville, Georgia plans to take 35 students to Gettysburg in the spring of 2026. We have made this trip before and it was amazing. I wish I could take every student to such a hallowed place. I am including a link below to a GOFUND me that will help with the costs to take the students. I am a teaching veteran of 27 years. I will provide any verification that anyone willing to give needs before you give. Thank you gentleman.

Donate to Help Franklin Students Visit Gettysburg, organized by Drew Scoggins

Hello, My name is Drew Scoggins. I am a history teacher at Franklin County H… Drew Scoggins needs your support for Help Franklin Students Visit Gettysburg

www.gofundme.com

 

[mhscogin]

Hey guys, after some reflection and discussion with my principal, I decided not to pursue the gofundme route. I wish i could. We have a gestapo like pay system and beuracracy here in my school system. Just easier not to have to fight them if they did not seem to like me fundraising without going through them. Imagine a Braxton Bragg combined with hooker or Burnsides. That is what trying to fund and do for students around here is like. I do appreciate all the ideas though

 

[Gary Morgan]

Fellow teacher here. I've never tried to get a grant to cover a field trip, but this might help.

The History Field Trip Grant Program | American Battlefield Trust

 

[mhscogin]

filled that one out yesterday!!! Praying I get approved!

 

[Gary Morgan]

filled that one out yesterday!!! Praying I get approved!

Good luck! Just as a side note, have you ever taken kids to Andersonville?

 

[pmuskett]

I reached out to some business owners in town to see if they knew of anyone or anything that can help. One gave me this address.

Grants for Field Trips | Field Trip Directory | FieldTripDirectory.com

fieldtripdirectory.com

Googled your location, I can't tell you how many times I drove past Carnesville on the way to Alabama.

For Gettysburg in the Spring, you want to stay away from the third week in May. That is Hell Week. We will have on Thursday and Friday that week near 100 buses a day. Its busy all spring, but that week is the worst.

Phil

 

[Trooper "D"]

I am a high school history teacher. We are planning to take a group of 35 teenagers to gettysburg in the spring for a field trip. The school district I work in has a lot of poverty. My goal is for each student to have to pay at least half the cost. The need skin in the game. But I need some ideas of how to help raise funds to off set the cost of the trip for each student. I have applied for a grant from the American Battlefield trust. But I was wondering if anyone on here could give me some ideas or information where I may apply for more grants. I teach at a small rural high school in NE Georgia

Revolvers and wildrags are my go tos for raising funds.
How much are you looking at raising?

 

[Oceanweather]

From personal experience Phil Muskett is an incredible Gettysburg guide. Recommend you take him up on his offer if at all possible.

Ryan

 

[mhscogin]

Good luck! Just as a side note, have you ever taken kids to Andersonville?

another teacher years ago did. I have not. Its only about 3 hours from us. Thought about it. we have done kennesaw mountain and the cyclorama

 

[mhscogin]

Revolvers and wildrags are my go tos for raising funds.
How much are you looking at raising?

any amount to help offset the cost. Total for all 35 kids and 5 chaperones is around 18,000. 525 per kid

 

[mhscogin]

I reached out to some business owners in town to see if they knew of anyone or anything that can help. One gave me this address.

Grants for Field Trips | Field Trip Directory | FieldTripDirectory.com

fieldtripdirectory.com

Googled your location, I can't tell you how many times I drove past Carnesville on the way to Alabama.

For Gettysburg in the Spring, you want to stay away from the third week in May. That is Hell Week. We will have on Thursday and Friday that week near 100 buses a day. Its busy all spring, but that week is the worst.

Phil

thank you so much.. Stop by when you come through again! General Longstreets 2nd wife was from Carnesville

 

[mhscogin]

we are coming March 25 through the 29th

 

[milhistbuff1]

Adams County or other municipalities might also have grants.

 

[Gary Morgan]

another teacher years ago did. I have not. Its only about 3 hours from us. Thought about it. we have done kennesaw mountain and the cyclorama

Yeah, I think that's a bit over the line of too far to drive for the amount of time you'd get to spend at Andersonville. I know that it's on the state standards to teach about - I think in 8th grade, so that would be the year to take them. I asked because I've spent a fair bit of time there researching it because I wrote a book on the raiders (I started off researching a magazine article about them and by the time I was done, not only did I have an entire book's worth of material, but I'd solved the mystery of who they were and why there were seven identities given but only six men were hanged). I would sometimes tag along and lurk in the background while the ranger in charge of educational programing would give tours to field trip groups - sometimes she knew in advance that they were coming, and sometimes they'd just pull in in a bus unexpectedly and she'd have to hit the ground running, I was always impressed by the job that they did.

My daughter's school would send the entire 8th grade from Massachusetts to Gettysburg (they did Washington, DC in 7th grade and sent them all to Montreal in 9th). It was a school that had a major international corporation that was founded in their town (ironically, the corporation has "Yankee" in its name) and thus a really impressive tax base, so they had a very comfortable budget for such things. I couldn't chaperone because I had other children and worked at a school in a neighboring town, but she really loved it and I felt like she learned a lot (even if she did talk about the ghost tour they took probably more than she talked about anything else). I would recommend showing your kids parts of the movie Gettysburg before you go, but maybe not the whole thing - it's very, very long, but also very, very well done.

 

[mhscogin]

Oh yea, my goal is to play it on the bus on the way up there. My parents bought me the collectors set including the mort kunstler boook and mini ball when I was in high school. Killer angels reads so well.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Oh yea, my goal is to play it on the bus on the way up there. My parents bought me the collectors set including the mort kunstler boook and mini ball when I was in high school. Killer angels reads so well.

Killer Angels is a novel remember. Martin Sheen did an excellent job of the ficticeous General Lee from the book. That ain't History though. Not one scene of General Lee with the trots from eating too many cherries. HA! Seriously, KA is a novel no matter how well the book was portrayed. Much more than Little Round Top and Longstreet's Attack Upon The Union Left Center occured over those 3 days.
Cheers!