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Student Travel to New Orleans
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park www.nps.gov/jazz/
Telling a story rich with innovation, experimentation, controversy and emotion, the park provides an ideal setting to share the cultural history of the people and places that helped shape the development and progression of jazz in New Orleans.
The park offers music selections and information about the pioneers of jazz including Freddie Keppard and Louis Armstrong, among others. Visit the park during the week for a Ranger Program to learn about the music and musicians of New Orleans. On Saturdays, additional live performances are offered with guest artists. You will also find exhibits, lectures, films, and walking tours which change from season to season.
Haunted History Tours
Recommended by the Travel Channel as “The #1 Tour in New Orleans! – A Must Do!”
Haunted History Tours offers the premier walking tour of the French Quarter and recommends you bring your camera as 90% of tour participants capture paranormal activity in their photos. Visit St. Louis cemetery #1 where Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau is entombed. Also, tour the elegant, lavish, and historic antebellum neighborhood of the Garden District. Don’t miss out on this extremely entertaining experience. School groups are their specialty!
Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
Want to pet a shark? You’ll get the chance at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. The shark touch pool allows visitors to touch a baby shark and talk with a naturalist. That’s just the beginning of the amazing experiences available to you. The Audubon Aquarium is one of the top museums of its kind in America with 15,000 sea life creatures representing 600 species.
The Caribbean Reef tunnel is 30 feet long and allows visitors a view of the Caribbean sea life viewed only by divers. View seahorses as the swim gracefully between the grasses in the Seahorse Gallery. The half-million-gallon Gulf of Mexico exhibit teems with fully-grown sharks and undersea life that thrive around the barnacled pilings of a simulated oil rig. You’ll also find the rare and endangered white alligator, good luck according to Cajun lore.
The National WWII Museum http://www.ddaymuseum.org/
Relatively new in the world of museums, the National WWII Museum opened in June 2000. Since then, more than one million visitors have toured. The American Spirit is brought to life through oral histories, powerful images and extraordinary artifacts.
The soaring Louisiana Memorial Pavilion houses the Museum’s reproduction of the Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel or Higgins boat. The boat was reproduced from original WWII plans by volunteers, including many former employees of Higgins, a New Orleans company. The museum also showcases 2 exceptional films: D-Day Remembered which contains footage from American, British and German archives and Price for Peace which tells the stories of the Pacific war through the voices of American and Japanese veterans.