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Nolden Grohe, 16, feeds exotic fish during Marine Biology class at Central Campus in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 27, 2024.
Nolden Grohe, 16, feeds exotic fish during Marine Biology class at Central Campus in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 27, 2024. The Iowa school system has had a hands-on program for three decades that has introduced students to career possibilities in aquarium science, marine biology, and related fields.
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Science A Marine Science Program in a Surprising Place Shows Students New Career Options
It's hard to find teachers for STEM subjects, but a school system in a landlocked state has found a way to make it work with marine science.
Caitlynn Peetz, September 30, 2024
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Illustration of a big business man's hand holding a magnet attracting money from a line up of diverse peoples' wallets.
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School & District Management When Schools Charge for Meals and Field Trips, Parents Often Pay Transaction Fees
Paying bills online is easy, but comes at a significant cost for low-income families in particular, a new federal report shows.
Mark Lieberman, July 30, 2024
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Students from Piney Branch Elementary School in Bristow, Va. arrive at Elizabeth Furnace Recreational Area in the George Washington National Forest in Fort Valley, Va. on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 for an outdoor education field trip. During the field trip, students will release brook trout that they鈥檝e grown from eggs in their classroom into Passage Creek and participate in other outdoor educational activities.
Students from Piney Branch Elementary School in Bristow, Va., arrive at Elizabeth Furnace Recreational Area in the George Washington National Forest in Fort Valley, Va., on April 23, 2024, for an outdoor education field trip.
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Families & the Community Bring Back In-Person Field Trips. Here's Why
School field trips took a hit due to the pandemic and are still recovering. Educators and experts explain why they should come back.
Elizabeth Heubeck, April 29, 2024
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Social Studies Video A Civics Lesson - Inspiring Students to Become Active Citizens
Students from a Chicago charter school traveled to the deep South to learn about the civil rights movement from those who, as children themselves, marched against segregation. But this was much more than a hands-on history lesson. It was designed to encourage the students to become active citizens themselves, to work to solve the problems they and their communities face today. Civics education like this is a key part of the curriculum at Polaris Charter Academy. As educator Francesca Peck told the students, 鈥淲e are here to answer the question: How do members of a community affect change?鈥 The message resonated. As one 6th grader told us, everyone has a voice and they need to be heard.
June 1, 2018
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Social Studies Video Civil Rights Activists Bring History to Life for a New Generation
It was a moment that changed America. Fifty-five years ago this month, thousands of African-American children walked out of school and began a peaceful march in Birmingham, Ala., to protest segregation. They were met with attack dogs and water hoses. Janice Kelsey was 16 at the time and was arrested for participating in what became known as the Children鈥檚 Crusade. This year, she told her story to a group of visiting 5th and 6th graders from Polaris Charter Academy in Chicago, Ill. The students had traveled more than 600 miles to hear first-hand accounts from civil rights activists like Kelsey who were on the front lines of history. 鈥淣obody can tell a story better than the person who experienced it,鈥 said 5th grader Amari. The real-life lesson is in keeping with the school鈥檚 philosophy, which Polaris educator Francesca Peck said stresses 鈥渢he power of immersion, and bringing history to life for our students.鈥 Peck said the two-day visit to Birmingham was not a 鈥渇ield trip,鈥 but was 鈥渇ield work,鈥 with students acting as historians. For many of the students, the impact was powerful. As Amari put it, 鈥淭his generation, they will have to decide whether they鈥檙e going to make a story like that generation did.鈥
May 18, 2018
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School Climate & Safety News in Brief Wash. State District Cancels International Field Trips
A district in Washington state has halted all international field trips over concerns students in the country illegally wouldn't be able to get back in.
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Federal Schools Cancel International Field Trips Over Concerns for Immigrant Students
So far, the policy change led the district to cancel a band trip to Canada and an education exchange to Osaka, Japan.
Corey Mitchell, May 1, 2017
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Social Studies Video Using 鈥淗amilton鈥 in the Classroom
The Broadway musical 鈥淗amilton鈥 is not just a cultural phenomenon or a favorite soundtrack for kids, it has also become an inspiration for educators looking for new ways to connect with their students. Recently 400 New York City public school teachers, most chosen by lottery, won tickets to see the play. Afterward, workshops hosted by the city's department of education and the Fund for Public Schools helped teachers develop lessons about topics like the U.S. Constitution, the presidency, and our Founding Fathers.
March 28, 2017
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Teaching Video Using America's National Parks as Classrooms
The National Park Service offers hundreds of lesson plans, virtual resources for schools, and professional development for teachers.
Carmen Rojas, November 23, 2016
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Classroom Technology Free Electronic Field Trip to Transport Students to Pearl Harbor
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans and a local public TV station plan to webcast an interactive electronic field trip commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attack.
Leo Doran, November 8, 2016
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Sixth grader Omari Sterling, left, and his teacher Gabrielle Randall of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) DC鈥檚 Northeast Academy visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington.
Sixth grader Omari Sterling, left, and his teacher Gabrielle Randall of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) DC鈥檚 Northeast Academy visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington.
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Equity & Diversity African-American History Museum Gears Up for School Visits
Official school tours don't start at the national museum until 2017, but classes are already flocking to the museum and tapping its resources.
Madeline Will, November 1, 2016
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Teaching Opinion National Parks at 100: Outdoor Classrooms for Experiential Learning
Our national parks offer educational opportunities to narrow the "experience gap," write Milton Chen and U.S. National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis.
Milton Chen & Jonathan B. Jarvis, August 25, 2016
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Teaching Opinion In Praise of the Field Trip
What is a field trip's ultimate purpose? How will the students apply what they have learned? What are their takeaways? And--because these are the questions we hear most often in national policy discussion--was this content standards-based? Could it be delivered (and measured) more efficiently and effectively? Say, in a video or interactive computer game? I'm going to go ahead and answer that question: No.
Nancy Flanagan, April 5, 2016
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Curriculum How Virtual Field Trips Can Change Science Class
An administrator with Durham Public Schools plans more than 100 virtual field trips each year that take her district's elementary school students to places they could never afford to go to otherwise.
Marva Hinton, March 25, 2016
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