This year we spent a few days in Savannah Georgia as part of our vacation. Savannah is full of amazing historical locations where you can learn a lot. However, many of the guided tours are quite pricey. Think $20 a person on the low side of prices.
We did not want to spend that kind of money. We went a different route. We purchased The Savannah Walking Tour & Guidebook for $5.95. I believe Amazon has it for $5.36 right now. This gave us the freedom to learn about each item at our pace. If something bored the kids we moved past it quicker. If they were really interested in something we lingered.

One of the great things about the guidebook is that it includes information on each location that you teach your children.

The picture above is Oglethorpe’s Bench. It marks the location where he first made camp before starting the city of Savannah.We took it a step further and talked about what the camp would have looked like in this area if all the buildings were gone.

The canons George Washington gave to the city of Savannah are a must see. I highly recommend them to anyone visiting Savannah. C kept us here for a long time. We would not have enjoyed it as much if we would have been with a tour group.

If you have been working on the Civil Rights movement there are many options on this tour to help you explore this. The statue picture was a personal favorite of mine.

There are many periods of time represented throughout the Savannah Walking Tour. Don’t miss the World War II memorial on the riverside. This is amazing!

There are even imitations of the Nina and Pinta. These are great to check out if you have ever worked on a series about our nation’s origins.

As a whole we really enjoyed this tour. It was a slow paced option that let me teach on the level of my children in their time.

This month we decided to have an Educational Road Trip for our vacation. While visiting family in Atlanta we decided to check out the World of Coca Cola. World of Coca Cola is a great place to take you children to learn many great lessons including marketing, manufacturing processes, and the science of taste.

World of Coca Cola offers a great help! 
You can go to the World of Coca Cola website and download free printable lesson plans to go with your trip to the attraction. This is broken down by grade and subject. It offers many different teaching points for each section of the attraction.

About our Visit

When you enter you will see these gorgeous coke bottles from different areas of the world. You can find many of these large bottles throughout the attraction. they have lots of details about the area they came from that is well worth checking out.

Make sure to take a moment and visit the Polar Bear. He is very good with children and we really loved meeting him. C wouldn’t look at the camera because he was too busy hugging this cuddly big guy.

One of the first rooms you will enter is filled with many different forms of advertising used over time. This is a great place to talk about advertising and why an ad was designed a certain way. A great take home activity would be to have your child design their own advertisement when they get home.

If you have a hands on learner this is the perfect place for them. Many of the elements of the attraction include places where your child can touch and interact with the information. Items like the one pictured let your child explore different elements of the origins of Coca Cola in a fun way.

Another great part of this tour is the Coca Cola bottling process. You can read all about the process from beginning to end. There are many educational options here from bottle packaging to the science of the production line. I HIGHLY recommend walking through this section.

If you are looking for the most fun part of the attraction it has to be the taste testing portion. You can actually taste Coca Cola products from all over the world. Be prepared, you will have a bubbly belly by the time you are done.

You will even leave with a bottle of coke from your visit.

If you have not been I highly recommend the World of Coca Cola!