St. Louis Homeschoolers

 

Includes the following public service providers offering tours:

 

Hospitals

Post Offices

Police Stations

Fire Stations

Courts

Weather Service

Waste Management

Recycling

Hospitals

DePaul Health Center
12303 DePaul Dr.
Bridgeton, MO 63044
314-513-4444.
Offers three interactive programs for children through the St. Louis Community College: Junior Doctor- ages 8-12 will view & discuss x-rays, tour operating room wearing scrubs, and visit the Labor and Delivery patient; Advanced Junior Doctor- ages 13-16 provides hands-on medical and surgical demonstrations with real surgical equipment. Junior Nurse- ages 8-12 teaches basic nursing assessments, including taking temperatures and blood pressure readings, and listening with a stethoscope. They also offer tours.

Logan Chiropractic College
1851 Schoettler Rd.
Chesterfield, MO 63017-5529
636 227-2100
http://www.logan.edu/pages/welcome_main.asp
Community educational outreach for high school students. Anatomy laboratory and Tour of the Body program. Tour of the Body is a Logan educational outreach program
that focuses on the role of dissection of human cadavers in health care education .

St John’s Mercy Medical Center
615 S. New Ballas Road
St. Louis, MO 63141
314-251-6000
http://www.stjohnsmercy.org/sjmmc/
Tours of facility, laboratory tours, classes, seminars, workshops and community events.

St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood
525 Couch Avenue
Kirkwood, MO 63122
314-966-1500
Tour of hospital, various departments include, x-ray, maternity, ER, and laboratory.

St. Luke’s Hospital
232 South Woods Mill Road
Chesterfield, MO 63017
314-434-1500
http://www.stlukes-stl.com/services/institute_health_education/index.html
Tours, classes and community educational events through the Institute for Health.
Speakers Bureau - St. Luke's provides health care professionals to speak to parents, civic and professional organizations, church groups and schools free of charge.


Post Offices

United States Postal Service
Contact your local post office. Some locations still provide tours such downtown St. Louis and Fenton.





Police

Ballwin Police Station
300 Park Drive,
Ballwin, MO 63011
636-227-9636
http://www.ballwin.mo.us/police_infohtml#Tours
Facility tour and community education programs.



Fire Protection

Monarch Fire Protection District
13725 Olive Street
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017
Phone: (314) 514-0900
http://www.chesterfield.mo.us/site/home.jsp?page=295
Station 1 is at 15700 Baxter Road and Station 2 is at 18424 Wild Horse Creek Road offer student tours.

Metrowest Fire Protection District
P.O. Box 310
Wildwood, Missouri 63040
636 458-2100
http://www.chesterfield.mo.us/site/home.jsp?page=141
Student tours and traveling training trailer.

St. Louis Fire Museum
1421 N. Jefferson Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63106
314-289-1933
Contains a collection of fire-related historic items and memorabilia.




Courts

Eagleton Federal Courthouse
1111 South 10th Street
St. Louis, MO 63102
314-244-2727
http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/index.html
The nation’s largest federal court facility, and the only one that houses three distinct federal courts, offers tours and houses the Judicial Learning Center, situated on the main floor, serves to promote public understanding about the importance of an independent judiciary and the rule of law in American society. It accommodates permanent exhibits, traveling exhibits, changing displays and interactive demonstrations about the role of federal courts and the operation of the justice system in the 8th Circuit. Visitors will learn about all three levels of federal courts.

The Old Courthouse
4th St., Market, Broadway, and Chestnut
St. Louis, MO 63102
800-537-7962 or 314-655-1700
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/courthouse_programs.html

The Old Courthouse, a prominent architectural landmark, was the site of the Dred Scott and Virginia Minor cases. It houses permanent exhibits and special events, offers tours, library and teacher resources such as workshops, traveling trunks, and video loan program.



Weather Service

NOAA's National Weather Service
St. Louis, MO Weather Forecast Office
12 Missouri Research Park Drive
St. Charles, MO 63304-5685
636-441-8467
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/
Facility tours and educational programs.


Utilities

Missouri American Water Company
727 Craig Road
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
314-991-3404
http://www.mawc.com/awpr1/moaw/default.html
Community outreach educational programs to school groups.



Waste Management

Onyx Waste Services
13932 St. Charles Rock Road
Earth City, MO 63045
Steve Zykan, General Manager:
(314) 567-1800
http://onyxws.com/
Tour and talk on Valley Park landfill.

Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
2350 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103-2555
(314) 768-6260
http://www.stlmsd.com/
Facility tours and outreach speaker’s program.

Peerless Landfill
Sulfur Springs Road
Valley Park, MO 63088
Contact: George Behnen
636-225-7000
http://www.dnr.mo.gov/alpd/swmp/facilities/peerless.htm
Tour and talk on Valley Park landfill.

Waste Management of Illinois, Inc
601 Madison Road
East St. Louis, IL 62201
618-274-9518
Tour and talk on landfill.

Weldon Springs Interpretive Center
7295 Highway 94 South    
St. Charles, MO  63304
636-300-0012
New state of the art interpretive center offers history on the town of Weldon Springs,  the construction, operation and legacy of the nation's largest explosive manufacturing plant, the subsequent uranium ore processing plant, and ultimate environment federal clean-up of the site.    They offer over a dozen different educational programs for school groups on topics such as:  prairie rehabilitation; subsurface aquifer studies; radiation in the environments; geology; water studies; toxic waste - improper and proper disposal; environmental clean-up; orienteering and much more.  The center will provide group tours of the clean-up site and a walk to the top of the disposal cell (which is the highest point in St. Charles County) and a talk on the clean-up program that was executed here.  They also have public meeting space available.




Recycling