We took my nephew in May and took him out of school. We would have been so lucky if the teacher
just let us educate through Disney, instead we had a significant amount of homework that we had
to do each evening and it was a challenge after being in the park all day.
From an educational perspective, I would suggest the following:
Social Studies: The EPCOT countries are a perfect place in which to learn about one or more countries.
You can buy your children the EPCOT passport and have it stamped in each country and have the cast
members sign. My nephew learned how to write his name is ruins, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese. If
you like, then have your children pick a country, go to the kids corner with a series of questions for
the cast members about their country, why they came to the US to work, some of their impressions and
then use this along with the other information learned to write a report.
Mathematics: Given your children a budget and a little notebook and throughout the trip so basic shopping
calculations, dependent upon age/grade. You can do percentages, fractions, subtraction, addition, etc.
Science: EPCOT has innovations which has information on communications and computers. In addition, spend
some time at the end of Test Track to understand how a car is manufactured and some of the science behind
the magic. Animal Kingdom is a wonderful place to learn about conservation, animal husbandry, bird watching, and
you can pick a wide-variety of topics.
Art: MGM has the animation tour in which you can go behind the scenes, or for older kids even taking the animation course would be fun and very educational.
I hope this gives you some ideas to help. Try to avoid taking homework from school if you can, you and your children will enjoy the trip much more if you don't have to fight every night to complete assignments. Remind
your children's teachers that education really can be fun and it is all in front of you at Disney.