Adventures=Educational

We related many of our activities to the field trip to the Baldwin Pumpkin Patch. We spent another week after the field trip having activities relating to different aspects of the trip. Our first activity was related to the trip to the creek, we were to imagine our ancestors finding walls built up around where our class was standing. We were to get into groups and discuss what could the walls of been built for, who made them and information about how we knew these facts. I enjoyed our groups decision, we decided to discuss the walls guarding a distillary. We believed it was a illegal room to produce alcohol. We found certain artifacts as a old distillary to recognize that it use to be one. We believed the ancestors of the Baldwin family were the creators of the distillary and gave a history to their family. It was a fun experience to recognize that as a teacher I can have a silly assignment and create it into critical thinking and learning of history. An adventure to a creek turned out to be a creative thinking experience for the students. We need to learn how to turn any situation into a learning situation.

I put this under the Nature of Learning because it has helped me to recognize how I create a better learning environment with my students. It helps to me create better ideas for my students.