Homeschooling and living near big cities is truly a blessing. 
Everything from learning rocks and minerals at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles to learning about ecosystems at the California Science Center has been instrumental to my hands-on learner. 
When we can't make it to the wonderful museums in and around Los Angeles we hop on over to  Glendale Library where we pick up books and DVDs from PBS, Disney (Bill Nye, Science of Imagineering, etc.) and others. 
We are so lucky to have the world at our finger tips.  It is my goal to make learning fun at "home".  
It is more than workbooks and heavy textbooks involved in the learning process here at home as well as it should be in the brick & mortar schools. 
How I wish, growing up in the Bronx, we had field trips to art, history and science museums. 
 All I ever remember going to was the zoo and the planetarium.  Speaking of planetariums, I need to schedule a trip to the Griffith Observatory Los Angeles in a few weeks.  We haven't looked through the Zeiss Telescope in almost 2 years!