Visit our first Virtual Field Trip here!
This is an invitation. I am inviting you to showcase one of your favorite "out of the house" experiences this school year. I'm calling it The Virtual Field Trip. As an example, Stone Age Techie just posted about taking her boys to Walden Pond. I don't know about you, but I'd love to go to Walden Pond, but since I live 1,077 miles away, we just might not get to it this year.
Here's what I'd like you to do:
Email me (yarnsoftheheart@gmail.com) a link to your post by Friday, March 6, and I'll put them all up on Monday, March 9. Hey, that's my dad's birthday! He loved to travel. This would be a nice way for me to honor him.
I hope your posts will have pictures, because we want to make this field trip as multi-sensory as possible. Any video in your post? That would be great! Please tell your friends about this. I'd love to have a gazillion links to posts about interesting places around the world. Can you tell I've got a touch of cabin fever?
And then the teacher in me hopes you'll share the field trip with your kids and do some online research to learn more about the places and the stories behind them.
I can't wait to see where we'll be going!
Oh, and by the way, your field trip doesn't have to be any great historical or cultural location. Anything that your family loved would be perfect. Dig into those archives!
12 comments:
What a great idea! And I had to comment that my dad's birthday was the 9th also! The day before mine.
:)
It's funny that you are dying to get to Walden, we went there in part because of your post about Abraham Lincoln's childhood home! I felt so bummed out that we wouldn't be getting to Illinois any time soon, I decided that we would go find some history nearby.
I can't wait to see where we go on your virtual field trip!
Karen
Thanks, guys! Journey--that's amazing that our dads had the same birthday!
Stone Age Techie, I just saw the school bus button on your blog. Adorable!
Oh, how fun!! I'll have to dig up some old photos, cause I don't think we're going anywhere next week. Oh, wait, rollerskating again, that might work.
Crunchy,
Your field trip can be from anytime this year. Dig into your archives, we don't care!
This is exciting, Jena. I've been telling the boys, and they can't wait to see how it all turns out! Virtual Field Trip...here we come!!
I think I know what I am going to use. I will have to do some work this weekend. I did put a link to the field trip on my unschooling blog. Cathy
We get to do a lot of field trips so this will be hard. We just got done with one on Thursday at the Agricultural Museum. They showed the kids things that were done during George Washington's time period. Spinning, grinding corn, blacksmithing, threshing. Afterward the girls played pioneer at the cabins they have set up.
I went to Walden pond back in the 70s as a child. I was not impressed but I hadn't studied him either!
I've got some great posts already! Some with pictures and some without. So don't be shy--dig into those archives and send us some place to visit. :)
I can't wait to see where the other entrants have gone! I've also posted a little something on my blog about the "trip".
BTW, I came by way of Topsy-Techie's blog. :)
Great great great idea, count me in!
i just did one, let me clean it up and i'll send you the link after i get the boys to bed
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