Details on the Fieldtrip on Thursday and a Question for Everyone!
As you may have already heard from the excited chatter of the students talking, we will be going on our long delayed field-trip to the planetarium. The field-trip will be this Thursday with the bus leaving at 8:30 in the morning. We are planning on returning by 3:30 but with traffic always an issue it could be later. Students have an exciting day planned. We will be watching a presentation in the star theatre, taking a ride in the simulated rocket machine, watching a demonstration of life in the Space Station and learning about the moon’s orbit around the Earth and the order of the planets in our Solar System. Lots of fun packed into a shirt amount of time.
To help us, here are some items to remember. Students will be eating lunch in the planetarium. Please have them bring their lunches with them. There will be no lunch service there or time to stop at the gift shop at the planetarium so students do not need to bring any money at all. For the bus ride, students can bring an activity for the journey. However, we are not allowing any electronic devices at all as we do not want them to be stolen, lost or damaged.
Question:
Having said that, I am wondering about the possibility of the students bringing a digital camera if families have one available. Digital cameras can be a great way to capture important events like field-trips. Students can then use the images to create presentations on their learning from the field-trips. It would be very cool to take the images taken from the field-trip and combine them into a folder to use in the computer. Students could then create animotos or voicethreads or other types of presentations using the images. However, I wanted to get some feedback from parents as to what your thoughts were on this idea. I realize that there may be issues with making sure they don’t get lost or left behind. As to proper use, that is something that we can talk about prior to them leaving; i.e. using the strap at all times when you are holding it, checking to make sure that you have it with you when you move from place to place, when to take photos and when not to take photos.