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Paper #3: Field Trips

Submitted By: Meghan McQuain

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science

Nevada State College Spring 2013

Instructor: Karen Powell


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Paper #3: Field Trips submitted by: Meghan McQuain

Primary (Grades K 2) Field TripsType

ofField

Trip

SocialStudies

Strand

Destination Field Trip Description & Notes

TraditionalField

Trip

HistoryNevada State Museum in

Carson City, Nevada

This field trip can be for learning about NevadaHistory, or Native Americans culture and

archeology. The field trip would be good for K-2students because it will provide them with

something to look at, and helps them make aconnection to what theyre learning and have

learned about Nevada.

Visitation

Field

Trip

HistorySteve Easley (family friend and firechief from East Fork Fire District.

Steve will share with the students whatfirefighters do, and how they fit into theemergency system. They will bring, fire coveralls,fire hose, and if available, a fire truck for thestudents to see and ask questions about. Thiswould describe the fire fighter occupation, andwhy we have them in society. It will addressH3.1.3Identify and describe occupations in thecommunity that help people,

V

irtualField

Trips

History

Scholastic.com: Firstthanksgiving:

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage

/tour.htmMayflower tour:

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcas

t.htm

This field trip gives students an inside look at thefirst Thanksgiving. Students can see what people

wore, what they ate, what their houses lookedlike, and they even get a good look at the

Mayflower. It would be good for students tocompare the Thanksgivings we have today, to the

very first Thanksgiving.The field trip tour of the Mayflower is an added

plus that literally walks students through areplica of the ship.

History

This field trip was found on

Franklincollege.eduCreated By: Laura Abbott,

Libby Allen, and LauraWagner

This may be based on a small town in Indiana;however, it covers some of the major jobs foundin any community. It goes into detail about thejobs of firefighters, police, restaurant workers,

and doctors. Students can learn how importantall of these jobs are in order to run our

communities.

http://www.franklincollege.edu/pwp/lwagner/VFT/Virtual_Field_Trip_to_Jobs_in_Our_Town2.htm

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2013 Karen Powell- Instructorpage 2
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Intermediate (Grades 3 5) Field TripsType

ofFieldTrip

SocialStudies

Strand

Destination Field Trip Description & Notes

TraditionalField

Trip

Acombination

of Historyand Civics

Nevada State Capitol in CarsonCity, Nevada

This field trip (as seen in the video below) willgive students an inside look of what goes on inthe State Capitol. They will learn about Nevada

history how and when our state came to be. Theywill also get an inside look of what takes place

inside the capitol building and the senate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIh3U6SOHfE

Visitation

Field

Trip

History

Douglas County HistoricalSociety has an educationalprogram where they send a

trained, retired teacher to theschool to present a power pointand artifacts to students basedon the Trail to the PromisedLand , The Pony Express,

Going to School in the 1860s

I would have the Douglas County HistoricalSociety do a presentation based The Pony

Express and the route they took through theCarson Valley. The Pony Express is talked about

from time to time up here, but many of thestudents dont really know what that is. So if

someone were to come in and presentinformation to the class along with artifacts, theywould gain a much better understanding of the

importance of the pony express route.

VirtualField

Trips

Civics

The White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/inside-white-

house/interactive-tour

This field trip will help students get a better viewof the white house through an informational

online tour. The students can learn about and seesome of the many different rooms in the white

house without traveling Washington DC.

CivicsThis virtual exhibit is one ofmany put on by the Division

on Museums and History

This is a virtual Exhibit that you can present toyour class if you have internet and aSMARTboard. It goes hand in hand with theStandard below, and it allows students to see

that Nevada Day in the eyes of those who werehere in the 1930s on up.

C13.4.5Explain why we celebrate Nevada Day.http://museums.nevadaculture.org/index.php?

option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=399

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1. Explain which field trip you think you will actually try to use.

I think I would most likely use the Nevada Museum, State Capitol, The Pony Express, and The

virtual White house tour. The fact that the Nevada Museum and State Capitol are so close and sorich in what they offer academically it would be foolish not to take students! I like that visitationfield trip on The Pony Express will bring to life what happened here in our area years ago andhow the route is still used today. Theyve probably heard about The Pony Express, but havenever known what it really was, and this visitation would be a great way for students to learn allabout it! Lastly, the White House virtual tour, because its not likely that we can take the wholeclass across the country, so by doing a virtual tour of the White House, everyone is able toexperience it. Of course actually viewing it in person would be the best experience, but this Ithink would be the next best thing.

2. What challenges did you run into during this assignment?

I found that the virtual field trips were the most difficult to find, especially for grades K-2. I alsofound that a lot of the virtual tours were directed towards Science and not necessarily socialstudies. Other than that, I had no problems with this lesson, and I gained quite a few resources totake with me when I graduate.


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