For ED 270 Field trips close to home, low cost field trips. Learning about the history around us.

1. Field Trips Close to Home
Nicole Linde
Tumwater, Olympia, Washington
Olympia and Tumwater have a rich history and should be
shared with the kids in school today.

2. Henderson House Museum
• A large part of
Tumwater and
Olympia’s history has to
do with the brewery.
• William Naumann built
the house in 1905.
• Housing workers of the
brewery for years.
• Now purchased by the
city of Tumwater the
house is expecting a
renovation.
• The kids could learn
about the house and
how the people would
have lived there back in
the day. The kids can
act out a play of what
they believe happened
back in the day.
• http://www.ci.tumwater.wa.us/
about-
tumwater/history/henderson-
house

3. The Schmidt House
• Leopold Schmidt build the house on the
Deschutes River.
• Leopold and family moved from Montana to
Washington in the 1890’s.
• Leopold was the owner of the Olympia
Brewery.
• The Artesian Spring was used for brewing the
beer.
• The house sits on top of a hill.
• Their son Peter inherited the house when they
died.
• The house was called “Three Meter”.
• The house has had few additions and is close
to the original design.
• Now owned by the Olympia Tumwater
Foundation a non-profit organization.
• Listed on the state and national registries for
Historic Places.
• The kids can learn about the Schmidts, more
than likely they will have met one of the
Schmidts as a substitute teacher. They can
explore the house and the grounds of the
house and write a short essay on how the
Schmidts could have lived.
• www.olytumfoundation.org/schmidt-house-
history/

4. Washington State Capitol Legislative Building
• Tours are free and open 7 days a
week for tours.
• There is a lot to see besides this
building, all within walking
distance.
• Has the tallest masonry dome in
North America
• The Nisqually earthquake in 2001
took 3 years to fix and upgrade
and 120 million dollars.
• Kids can learn about how our
government works, who does
what job and about the artifacts
in our state building. There is a
lot of money that is put into the
things in the building. There are
old artifacts and furniture. There
can be a print out of items and
they can write down the price of
the items that “wow or shock”
them.

5. Priest Point Park
• Priest Point Park is a
great place to go
outdoors.
• Kids can learn about
the bay, the
different type of
trees, and could
even be productive
and help pull Ivy.
• I had a field trip
here to pull weeds
and it actually
wasn’t as bad as it
sounds. My class
had a blast.
• There is also a play
ground and lots of
places to sit for
lunch.

6. Burfoot Park
• Many different trails
and lots of room for
large groups.
• The beach could help
interest the learning
for shellfish and the
ecosystem in the bay.
• There is a beautiful
garden that has been
kept up for years and a
plaque of those who
volunteered and died.
• The garden can help
kids learn about the
different types of
flowers.
• A great field trip idea
is to have the kids
each plant a flower
and then they can get
excited about
watching it grow.

7. San Francisco Street Bakery
• In Olympia Washington,
across from Roosevelt
Elementary School.
• Kids can watch the
bakers and see how the
kitchen works. The
transportation from
Roosevelt is free since
they can walk.
• Little kids would have
just learned to read the
gingerbread story and
could enjoy a
gingerbread man
cookie.
• The bakery also
upkeeps a garden and
the kids can enjoy the
cookie outside on a nice
day.

8. Olympia Airport and Museum
• On Old Highway 99,
there is the Olympia
Airport. Little planes
and such fly out from
here.
• There is also Glacier
flying school and it is a
great place to learn to
fly a helicopter or
airplane.
• The Olympic Flight
Museum has many
aircrafts that were used.
There are pictures and
statistics.
• After seeing the
different aircrafts and
asking the people there
questions the kids can
pick one of the planes
to research.