A Soldiers Life Field Trip

"A Life of a Soldier" is a winter camp in Morristown, in particular from 1779 to 1780, encouraging students to explore the lifetime and sacrifice of continental soldiers fighting for American independence, interactive It's a course-based program. Students also considered the impact of camping on neighboring civilians whose lives changed over the past six months due to the presence of the army - for example, borrowing rooms to military, timber cut by houses and firewood, and military officers

All courses of the 2017 - 18 academic year are reserved. For more information please send an email to Park Ranger / Education Specialist Thomas Winslow.

Students began to visit the program at the Jockey Hollow Visitor Center. After introduction, the group can be divided into two as long as the class size does not become 25 people or less. The maximum number of students per course is 50. Both teams will participate in these two elements and switch the positions in the middle of the plan. One group will move to a farmhouse in the 18th century and the other group will stay in the visitor center.

Students at the visitor center will examine the traditional equipment of traditional soldiers, discover the function of each thing, judge that things are the most important for soldiers, and report the results to the class as a whole. Students enter the copy cottage and imagine spending the winter there.

Wickhouse students are small groups that check rooms where officials are located, where the family lives, where to prepare meals and other housework. Students visit the rooms in the house and check the items to determine which rooms are occupied by the staff and which rooms are reserved by the Wick family. Then the ranger will allow the general and his staff to camp their fortune and army with their fortune, taking into consideration the sacrifices made by the citizens like Wicks for independent reasons in the United States We ask you to consider.

In the case that the instructor wants the students to participate in the training of the soldiers after 20 minutes from the end of the course ("Students" train "with wooden muskettes), she / he needs to talk with the ranger about the problem There is. . Please remember to contact Park Ranger on arrival and continue for at least 2 hours.

Traffic is the focus of every field trip. In order to adjust the transport needs, the requirements must be communicated to the transport department. According to the requirement of the local visit, the transport department will allocate the bus and plan the driver. Field trips may be influenced by contradictions with the availability of vehicles and regular school transportation schedules. In order to meet students with special needs, it is necessary to arrange transportation.

Linking a field trip field trip to the course topic is a great way to improve the learning experience. For most outdoor trips, it is necessary to make specific arrangements such as tickets, transportation, parking lots in advance. The staff wants to preview the site before schedule the team for the students and predict potential problems. For all courses, especially those for low-income student groups, you need to consider economic barriers to transportation and student participation. Ideally, the plan will provide a bus or will find a convenient location for public transport (Denoya 1998). Students may need to pay tuition fees to a certain extent, but they have to offer scholarships.

Field trips can be used for a variety of purposes. In some cases, field surveys are required to conduct unit surveys or to compile everything at the end of the study period. Field trips can be used to stimulate interest in various topics and work, research areas. This allows students to create new inventions or to be interested in someday becoming a work of their own life. Did you wonder why so many public school classes do outdoor research in the spring? The students and teachers are tired of being trapped in the classroom all the year, are they just wanting to go out in fresh air? Normally, excursion is not even "education" you can think, but everyone in the class goes to school bus on that day. Therefore, I think we can add excursions for the above list - fun! The excursion is only for entertainment