OCDE After School Programs

Providing help on finding the right after school program for your child. This valuable resource also outlines the benefits and offers help on how and where to look for these programs.

Drug & Violence Prevention Site

Alcohol, Tobacco, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention Program funds provide opportunities for schools, communities, businesses, and families to work together to develop and implement comprehensive programs to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, violence or other disruptive behavior among youth

Orange County Department of Education Health & Wellness

Coordinated School Health Programs.
Health Education • Physical Education • Counseling and Psychological Services • Nutritional Services A Safe Environment • Nursing and Health Services • Parent and Community Involvement • Employee Wellness

2-Way Language Immersion Program

Help your children learn to think, read, write and speak naturally in two languages! Capistrano Unified School District's intensive 2-Way Language Immersion Program is designed for students to: Achieve proficiency in English and Spanish while developing high level academic skills; Build strong thinking and reasoning for problem solving in math and science; Provide them with the cutting edge for admission in colleges and universities that value and promote biliterate, multicultural and global learning; Perform at or above grade level in academic areas; and Prepare them for a real world with positive opportunities and challenges.

Eco-Adventure Center
Laguna Niguel

The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel presents eco-adventures that inspire you with Southern California’s unique ecosystems and connect your spirit to their larger global systems. Led by expert naturalists, the Eco-Adventure Center is dedicated to showcasing Southern California’s natural wonders. Throughout these unique excursions, the local surroundings become a natural classroom and living laboratory. Adults, families and kids learn through experience, which instills them with deep appreciation and respect for nature. As well, they will understand how to live more environmentally responsible back home.

Cool Critters & Animal Presentations

A professional performance that is both fun and educational for children of all ages, Cool Critters is a traveling reptile and exotic insect zoo for birthday parties, corporate events and classrooms. Your guests will have an opportunity to touch or hold most of the twenty exotic animals that are showcased. Book a show today and create memories for your children that will last a lifetime!

Discovery Science Center

Are your children bright, inquisitive, and explorative? Are you searching for a fun, educational outing for your family? Explore more than 120 hands-on exhibits, participate in live science experiments and more! There's always something new to discover!

For Teachers, Discovery Science Center is an interactive, educational and Grade-specific experience.

Heritage Museum of Orange County

Heritage Museum offers an exciting line-up of educational field trip programs. Programs offered include a hands-on tour of the historic 1898 Kellogg house where students learn what life was like in the 1890s by playing with vintage toys, doing laundry, making butter, dressing up in Victorian costumes, and participating in other activities. Other programs included are 'Great Grandpa's House' for the youngest students, 'First Californians' & 'Gold Rush'.

Inside the Outdoors

Inside the Outdoors® is Orange County Department of Education’s environmental education program and has been providing hands-on, interactive outdoor experiences for Southern California students since 1974. We are passionate about sharing the love of nature and science with students. We offer full and half day field trip programs to educate students from Kindergarten to 7th grade at 13 different sites around Orange County. Our Traveling Scientist programs bring hands-on science education into the classroom. We also offer week long programs for 5th and 6th graders at 6 different Outdoor Science School sites in the San Bernardino mountains. Inside the Outdoors school programs are aligned with the California Science and Social Science Content Standards, providing optimal connectivity with what your students are learning in the classroom.
(714) 708-3885

Irvine Park Railroad- Educational Programs
Ongoing

Irvine Park Railroad offers educational programs and group discounts for train rides and other annual events. The 4th Grade California History Education Program - a fun, hands on program - meets fourth grade, history-social science content requirement standards for California Public Schools. Activities include a train ride, water wheel demonstration, a visit in the mine shaft, tour of a miner's camp, panning for gold and more. Book your class or group for the Pumpkin Patch; each child can participate in various activities and take a pumpkin home. Classes and groups can also be booked for the Easter Eggstravaganza; children will participate in an Easter egg hunt, train ride and other activities. Different packages are available. For information on these programs, including group pricing, visit our Web site today.

LOCATION:
Irvine Regional Park
1 Irvine Park Road
Orange, CA 92869

Journeys to the Past

Instructors engage students in daily activities that helped build the West. Learn about churning butter and grinding wheat flower and learn about the personal grooming habits of shaving with a mug, and washing clothes the old fashion way, with a scrub board! Program also includes Native American “touch and feel” table: make an arrowhead, use and ancient pump drill method and make a shell necklace. See artifacts of the culture that first occupied this county before and during the gold rush era. Your students will take home history.

Mission San Juan Capistrano

Featuring information on Children's Programs,
Teachers Seminars, Museum Lectures and more! Great educational resource for California 4th graders

Ocean Institute

24200 Dana Point Harbor Dr.
Dana Point, CA 92629
Phone: 949-496-2274

Pacific Marine Mammal Center

A non-profit, volunteer organization and education center. They rescue, rehabilitate, and release sick and injured seals and sea lions. Programs include a guided tour of the animal care facility and exhibit room, a slide presentation and observation of the animals. The also offer a range of educational programs for groups of all ages.

Starr Ranch Sanctuary
Located in Trabuco Canyon

Starr Ranch Sanctuary offers educational and research opportunities for ages 7 and up through their Ecology Programs, Starr Ranch Junior Biologists, Ranch Research, Family Nature Workshops, and Starr Ranch Bird Observatory.

For more information on programs and how to schedule a group call Sandy at 949-858-0309

Young Chefs® Academy

Young Chefs® Academy offers a variety of fun from field trips for schools, scout groups and Mom groups, to seasonal workshops & Open Houses and so much more! Our field trips are a great opportunity for "young chefs" to explore their culinary curiosities in a fun, safe environment. Call us today to schedule your private group visit to our cool kitchens! 949.679.8390

Armenta Learning Academy
Home School and Independent Study Support

Armenta Learning Academy is an interactive, hands-on, 6:1 ratio school in a non traditional environment. At Amenta, we will find a specialized and individualized program best for your child. For Home Schooling Instruction for School Credit, Armenta Learning Academy can give you the support for a successful home school experience and oversee your child's progress and achievements.

For Independent Study Programs, they can also help in all academic areas. Through direction and assistance, students completing Independent Study courses will thrive in their small group and one on one environment. Teachers will advise students on time management in relation to class work completion, as well as teaching the material. For more information please call 949-367-WISE (9473)

Community Home Education Program

Providing help on finding the right after school program for your child. This valuable resource also outlines the benefits and offers help on how and where to look for these programs.

Foreign Language Learning Game

Excellent for home schooling, the Foreign Language Learning game is a learning tool to learn and practice word and expressions of a foreign language in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Game-Board and audio lessons available in Spanish with French soon to be available.

Starr Ranch Sanctuary
Located in Trabuco Canyon

Starr Ranch offers different programs that work well with home schooling. Their spring Junior Biologists (ages 8 - 13) runs for four consecutive Saturdays or school days and focuses on a specific wildlife research project. Their Ecology Programs provide home schoolers a hands-on experience in simulated or actual wildlife research on large mammals, creek insects, hawks, and more.

Small or large groups can schedule half day, full day, or overnight programs.

LangoKids Irvine
Hola, Bonjour, Ni Hao! Welcome to LangoKids Irvine!

Lango Kids Irvine is a full-immersion foreign language program that teaches Spanish, French and Mandarin to young children ages 1-10 at our facility in Irvine! Classes, taught by native or near-native speaking teachers, are 45-minutes in length or 1.5 hours and are offered in small group settings of 5-10 students to help your child achieve his/her higher potencial and love for the langauge. Language Immersion Camps are also available for 5-10 year old kids. For classes and Camp Lango pricing and location, contact us or visit our website by clicking links above.

Irvine (714) 864-4680

Lango Kids North Orange County
Using music, games and in-class adventures to engage your child in a new language

Lango classes are a dynamic and engaging way for your child to learn Spanish, Mandarin or French. Our teachers are dedicated to guiding each student through language acquisition using fun activities and challenges using Lango’s Graduated Immersion© approach. You'll be amazed at how soon your kids will speak, read and write in their new language.

Week-long summer camps are also available June 18!

Language Door
Located in Irvine

Learn German, Farsi, Chinese, Hebrew and Spanish as well as many other foreign languages at Language Door language school in Irvine.

Language Door offers Group Classes with only two to eight students per class where pupils are encouraged to speak in their new language with their peers as well as the teacher. Private tutoring is also offered with one-on-one tutoring that gives students the individual attention and flexible scheduling that they need.

Marina View Preschool and Kindergarten

Providing a Safe Environment for Children to Learn and Have Fun. Offering full and half day programs. Marina View's teachers are degreed teachers not baby-sitters. Their year round school with summer camp features computer lab, foreign languages, art music and movement, phonics and reading, math, science, geography, gymnastics and dance. Also provides potty training.

Get College Funding

GetCollegeFunding is a non-profit, public benefit company committed to educating parents, grandparents, students and educators with the facts about College Funding and Financial Aid. Many of their services are free, including seminars, ongoing private consultations, financial aid forms review, and downloadable resources from their website.

For families who want them to take care of the entire College Funding element - from start to finish - they offer a fee-based all-inclusive-service.

Earth's Water - All About Oceans

Our Their Nonprofit Resource Center, the educational division of Volunteer Center Orange County, offers more than 150 seminars, workshops, and conferences annually. Staffed by experienced nonprofit professionals, they can assist you in any aspect of nonprofit formation, development, operation or governance.

Orange County Public Library

A network of community libraries in Orange County. There are currently 32 branches as well as an outlet in Orangewood Children's Home to provide a variety of services to residents throughout the County. Some of the branches are operated within the jurisdiction of the county's 33 cities and some within the county's unincorporated area.

Volunteer Center of Orange County

Our Their Nonprofit Resource Center, the educational division of Volunteer Center Orange County, offers more than 150 seminars, workshops, and conferences annually. Staffed by experienced nonprofit professionals, they can assist you in any aspect of nonprofit formation, development, operation or governance.