Field Trips

Submitted By: Taylor Fitzgerald

EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science Nevada State College Spring 2014 Instructor: Karen Powell

Field Trips

submitted by: Taylor Fitzgerald

Primary (Grades K 2) Field Trips

Social Studies Strand Traditional Field Trip Destination Field Trip Description & Notes

The Las Vegas Natural History Museum History

900 Las Vegas Blvd N. Las Vegas, NV 89101

1st grade.

The bus will load at 9 am to arrive around 9 thirty. The museum hosts a Learning Safari field trip for grades 1-8. Sack lunch will be served at 11:30 and the students will be back on the buss at 12 pm. 4 parent volunteers will be needed.

Visitation Field Trip

History

A Native American guest speaker from the Moapa Band of Paiutes. 2nd grade

I would love to be able to get someone who is very knowledgeable about the native American culture to come in and speak to students. The speaker could show artifacts and answer questions. I think this would be great to open young students eyes up to all the different people the world is made up of.

Tour of a Fire truck History http://archive.cityofdavis.org/fir e/tour/ 1st grade

viVirtual Field Trips

During our unit on local jobs in the community, students can virtually explore the inside of a fire truck. After they explore the can color and label a picture of a fire truck to display on the class bulletin board.

Tour of Ellis Island History http://teacher.scholastic.com/a ctivities/immigration/tour/ 2nd grade

As a class, we can take the tour of Ellis island where millions of immigrants made there first stop in America. I would incorporate this tour during our unit on how American is a melting pot of cultures. This site is text heavy, but we would go through it as a class so that I would be the one reading and explaining.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Field Trips

submitted by: Taylor Fitzgerald

Intermediate (Grades 3 5) Field Trips

Social Studies Strand Traditional Field Trip Destination Field Trip Description & Notes

The Bolder City Hoover Dam Museum History 1305 Arizona St Boulder City, NV 89005 4th grade

The bus will leave at 9 am and arrive at the museum just before before 10 am. A tour of the museum will occur where a museum employee will explain about the historic Bolder City and how & why the Hoover Dam was built. Sack lunch will be served at 11:30. The bus will load at noon to return to the school. Three parent volunteers will be needed.

Visitation Field Trip

Economics

A Local Banker 3rd grade

During our unit on money, I would like a banker to come in and speak to our class about saving, interest, borrowing, and the purpose of banks. I would like to schedule the speaker on day two of the lesson, so students are familiar with the words and are not overwhelmed.

Explore Ancient Egypt

Geography

Virtual Field Trips

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/a ncient/explore-ancient-egypt.html 4th grade

Students will watch the interactive and explore the world of Ancient Egypt by going through the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, tombs and much more. Student will answer outline questions created by the teacher while the tour this fascinating part of the ancient world.

The Smithsonian Museum

History Geography

http://www.mnh.si.edu/vtp/1desktop/ 5th grade

Students can tour the museum room by room. I will pair up students and assign them to a room. The students will write a short report on something in their assigned room to share with the class.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor

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Field Trips 1. Explain which field trip you are most excited about.

submitted by: Taylor Fitzgerald

I feel that I am most excited about the 1st grade trip to the Las Vegas National History Museum. I think it is wonderful that the museum has field trips for the different age groups. I would be very excited to see the museum with the children and watch them be on a learning safari. This is the trip from my list that I would have found to be the most excited to go on.

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

In my opinion, thinking of possible visitation field trips was the hardest part of this assignment. I wanted to incorporate speakers who could help touch on multiple standards, but still be interesting for the students. I also found trying to find virtual field trips for K-2 to be a bit challenging. The technology on most of the sites I found seemed really advanced for this age group.

Nevada State College

EDEL 453 - Spring 2014

Karen Powell- Instructor

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