Field Journals on Field Trips Kelsey Raschke, Art Educator, Yahara Elementary, DeForest Karly Kittoe, Kindergarten Educator, Yahara Elementary, DeForest
Re-Thinking Learning On Field Trips ● How do we make field trips both fun, engaging, AND meaningful? ● How do we know what students are learning or taking away from field trips? ● Can arts integration be used to make both of these happen?!
McKenzie Center Field Trip Nature preserve and education center, 25 Miles north of Madison Conservation Museum ● Native Animals ● Observation Tower ● Log Cabin ● Pond ●
In The Art Room Creating Field Journals and Binoculars
This is on your hand out.
Skills to pre-teach In the CLASSROOM In the ART ROOM ● Looking Closely - Writing ● Observational Drawing like Scientists (Lucy Calkins ● Leaf/Texture Rubbing Writers Workshop) ● Nature Pressing ● Conservation (Unit 4 Writers Workshop - Opinion Writing, Social Sciences Earth Day, “Research”)
McKenzie Center with Field Journals ● Loved feeling like “real scientists” ● Increase in engagement ● Provided structure at unstructured times ● Adaptable to all skill levels
“Outside of Science”
Other Field Trip & Journal Possibilities
First Grade Apple Orchard -Before they leave predicitions -Draw what taste buds feel like -Predicting -Labeling parts of apple -Apple tree life cycles -Making apple products -Drawing things that benefit from -Taste testing apples -Picking apples > Eatings > Feeding cores to goats
Second Grade Cave of the Mounds -Drawing with eyes closed as if in the dark -Cave formations and growth -Labeling cave parts/formations -Sifting for rocks -Portrait of cave miners from long ago -Rock and minerals -Fossils -Fossil rubbings
Third Grade Crane Foundation -Drawing habitat -Endangered crane practices -Imagined endangered animal -Habitats -Design a crane egg
Fourth Grade Capital Trip -Coloring Wisconsin flag -Branches of government -Fill in the rotunda -Art -Architecture -Timeline -Rotunda
Brainstorm and Collaboration -Group together with similar levels -5 Minute Discussion, then sharing out What are current field trips or common field trips that most students go on that field journals would work well with? What kind of pages could be in the journals?
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