City Guides
Fee-based, grades 4-12: City Guides offers guided two-hour walking tours designed to fascinate kids. Go to the website and click on Walking Tours for the School Tours list. Examples include: “1906 Earthquake & Fire -- From South of Market to Union Square, explore how a massive earthquake toppled buildings, ripped apart city water pipes, and led to a fire that burned for 3 days.” And: “Fisherman’s Wharf: Learn about swimmers who survived (or didn't) the treacherous bay, the baseball great whose dad wanted him to be a fisherman, and what is underneath Aquatic Park.” Please allow 3-4 weeks lead time to plan a group youth program tour.
San Francisco City Hall tours
Contact: Ellen Schumer, 415/554-6139
Free: Tours are 45-60 minutes and can be tailored to all ages. Reserve in advance.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission St. between Third and Fourth streets (South of Market)
Fee-based: The CJM offers a museum tour that’s a hands-on exploration of architecture, with projects and activities tailored by age.
Hyde Street Pier and San Francisco Maritime Museum
Foot of Hyde Street at Jefferson
Free to ages 15 and under, fee-based for older teens and adults: The Hyde Street Pier offers four permanently docked ships that visitors can tour. Allow two weeks’ notice. Visitors can tour the Balclutha, an 1886 full-rigged ship; the Eureka, an 1890 San Francisco ferry; the C.A. Thayer, an 1895 lumber schooner; and the Hercules, a 1907 ocean tugboat – and admire the small craft and huge freighters plying the bay while soaking up the maritime atmosphere. Groups require a ratio of at least one adult per 10 children and youth.Precita Eyes Mural Center
Contact: Missy Ablin, 415/285-2287
Mural arts and visitors’ center: 2981 24th St. @ Harrison, Mission District
Studio: 348 Precita Ave. @ Treat St., Mission/Bernal Heights
Fee-based: Guided mural tours for all ages. See also mural arts workshops in the “Arts” category.
Recology (aka the city dump)
Contact: Micah Gibson, mgibson@recology.com
501 Tunnel Ave., Visitacion Valley
Free: Check availability early for a great tour of the Recology (formerly Sunset Scavenger) recycling facility, Artist-in-Residence Program and Sculpture Garden. All students on the tour must be 9 and older, and groups are limited to 35 students and five chaperones. This is a fun tour that educates kids about the environment, recycling and reuse, as well as the interesting technology that handles tons of recyclable materials – and also inspires them with art made from discarded items, including the Sculpture Garden right at the dump.This list is from the Summer Learning Network material that participants received at the Feb. 25 Summer Program Development Conference at the Unitarian Church. I'm posting it here category by category.
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