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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

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Field Journals on Field Trips

Kelsey Raschke, Art Educator, Yahara Elementary, DeForest Karly Kittoe, Kindergarten Educator, Yahara Elementary, DeForest

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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?!

Re-Thinking Learning On Field Trips

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McKenzie Center Field Trip

Nature preserve and education center, 25 Miles north of Madison

Conservation Museum
Native Animals
Observation Tower
Log Cabin
Pond

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In The Art Room

Creating Field Journals and Binoculars

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This is on your hand out.

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Skills to pre-teach

In the CLASSROOM

Looking Closely - Writing

like Scientists (Lucy Calkins Writers Workshop)

Conservation (Unit 4

Writers Workshop - Opinion Writing, Social Sciences Earth Day, “Research”) In the ART ROOM

Observational Drawing
Leaf/Texture Rubbing
Nature Pressing

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McKenzie Center with Field Journals

Loved feeling like

“real scientists”

Increase in

engagement

Provided structure

at unstructured times

Adaptable to all

skill levels

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“Outside of Science”

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Other Field Trip & Journal Possibilities

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First Grade

Apple Orchard

Predicting
Apple tree life cycles
Making apple products
Taste testing
Picking apples > Eatings > Feeding

cores to goats

Before they leave predicitions
Draw what taste buds feel like
Labeling parts of apple
Drawing things that benefit from

apples

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Second Grade

Cave of the Mounds

Cave formations and growth
Sifting for rocks
Rock and minerals
Fossils
Drawing with eyes closed as if in the

dark

Labeling cave parts/formations
Portrait of cave miners from long ago
Fossil rubbings

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Third Grade

Crane Foundation

Endangered crane practices
Habitats
Drawing habitat
Imagined endangered animal
Design a crane egg

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Fourth Grade

Capital Trip

Branches of government
Art
Architecture
Rotunda
Coloring Wisconsin flag
Fill in the rotunda
Timeline

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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?