Here is a made up Field Trip that I think will be really fun to do!!! Enjoy
4th Grade Outdoor Adventure to Diamond Mines in Murfreesboro Arkansas
Date/Grade/Content Area:
The trip will begin on May 4th, 2011. The class of Fourth Graders will all get on a rented bus to drive to Murfreesboro, Arkansas in order to go searching for diamonds. This will be a great field trip because, in Science, we have been talking about the different ways that one might classify an object. By going to these mines, these students will get hands on experience about what different materials look like and will have the opportunity to classify real life things. Even if they do not find diamonds, there is lot of other things to classify during the whole experience and it should be a great overnight field trip.
Parent Involvement/ Faculty Involvement:
After a newsletter was sent out to the parents, we had over half of the parents volunteer to either come on the field trip or pack lunches and dinners for each student going on the trip. Also, we had three faculty members, excluding the teachers, to help plan the schedule of the whole trip.
In the newsletter that was sent out, the parents were given a detailed list of the things that their children would be doing. The teachers made sure that they knew that their students were going to be safe and that it would be ok to give their permission to go on the trip. Each parent sent back a written permission slip saying that his or her student could go on this over night field trip.
Trip Details:
The trip will begin on Thursday May 4th and will end on Friday May 5th. Each student needs to bring an over night bag as well as a backpack. Things in the bag should include: jeans, tennis shoes, sleeping clothes, t shirts, jackets, one piece bathing suits, paper, pencils, camera’s, and gloves. This was all in the newsletter that the parents got before they signed the permission trip so they would know what to bring.
The cost of the trip was to a problem. We had three parents volunteer to pay for the gas, logging, and also some more to pay for all the food the other parents would put together for us to eat. The teachers did not have to do a thing. The money was sent to the Shiloh Checking account and was more than we would ever need on the trip. The remaining money would be used to buy books for the students at the school.
The students, teachers, and parent’s volunteers will stay at a nice hotel in Murfreesboro called Holiday Inn Express. There were magically enough students to place in a room to have a bed and also allow an adult to be in the room to.
The students will arrive at the park at around 12:00. They will then go out and eat at the picnic tables the lunches that were packed for them. While they are eating, the teachers will explain what they are going to do that day. After they eat they will make their way down the paths and observe all the different things that they see. They will walk about a mile around the park and then stop. While they are taking a break, they are to get their papers out and list out all the different objects that they have seen. They are then to get into groups and classify what they have seen into certain categories. Once they are all done, then it is time to go to the mines.
The whole groups listens to the introductory lesson on how and what we should be looking for while we are digging in the mines. Then we break off into groups with an adult and start searching for diamonds and other materials. The students will dig and write down what they see while they are doing it. This whole proceed will take about 3 hours.
Once the students have shared what they have found. It is time to eat dinner in the big room at the hotel. After they eat, they will watch a movie. The next day we will eat breakfast then go to the water park/pool that is on the Mining Land. After they eat lunch, all the students will get on the bus to return home from an awesome trip to the mines.
Arkansas Frameworks Correlations:
This outdoor adventure is a great thing to do when you are in a Science class talking about different objects. You can observe so many different things during the day that you can classify into different groups and compare them. In Arkansas this strand is Strand 3: Physical Science, Strand 5 Matter and Properties and Change. The students will identify multiple ways to classify objects. On the trip, each student was able to classify different things they found in the mines. They also all classified them in different ways and groups. After they were done, shared them with the whole groups, which aloud the other students to see just how many ways you can classify an object.
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