Essay On Field Trip

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The purpose of our Field Trip Grant opportunity is to help you and your students visit a Special District and increase your insight to this effective means of local government and the important services they provide to the citizens of San Diego County.

Two grants will be awarded this year, funded by the San Diego Chapter of the California Special District Association. Each award will include a field trip to the Special District of your choice (selected from the list on the back of this brochure) and up to $800 to cover the cost of up to two buses to transport your students. A Special District liaison will also be assigned to you to assist with your field trip planning.

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AJ, Jackie, Min, and I made our way down to Tainan right after our field trip to the ICDF with our global health class on a Friday. It took us around 4 hours to get to the Tainan bus stop from the Taipei Main Station bus stop. After the long drive, we were starving, so we went to the night market in Tainan!

The next day we went to the Chimei Museum, which was incredible. My favorite part of the museum was definitely the musical instrument collection. Then we grabbed some lunch and headed to the first Confucius Temple in Taiwan. After visiting the temple, we decided to browse the old street before heading back to Taipei.

This weekend we had a makeup day class for the long break that we would have the following weekend. Many of our classes for CLD (Chinese Language Division) had a scavenger hunt field day around Datong District, one of the first areas to be known as Taipei City. The area had many traditional medicine markets, tea shops, and temples. It was really cool to see this side of Taipei.

On Sunday, Olivia, my housemate Colm, and I visited the National Palace Museum. The museum was absolutely incredible. My favorite sections of the museum were the ceramics and jade sections. Seeing Himalayan art there was nice since it made me think of home.

Semi-house trip to Yilan, my housemates Olivia, Julian, Colm, and our local roommate Nana planned to head to Yilan after class to stay the night and go to Waipao Beach and Lanyang Museum the next day. Once we got to Yilan, we all headed to the closest night market, Dongmen Night Market. The scallion pancakes with eggs and the peanut ice cream roll was my personal favorite.

My friends Kemal, Sam, Olivia, and I went to Yuan-Dao Guanyin Temple in Tamsui. This was a very special weekend since April 5th is Tomb Sweeping Day, so they had a special Guanyin collection in the lower level of The Thousand Hand Thousand Eye Guanyin Bodhisattva Establishment that is still under construction.

We headed to Jiufen, which looks like it is straight out of Spirited Away. We grabbed tea at A-Mei Teahouse and then got soup dumplings for lunch. Afterward, we headed to Houtong Cat Village and checked out some of the coal museums and, of course, the cats! Taiwan has made me like cats. Finally, we headed to Shifen to check out the old street and Shifen Falls. However, we could not see the falls because we got there a bit late.

9 year old Neha S from Chennai shares the wonderful memory of a field trip from school, to a farm and her experience there. Dont miss this lovely walk through the farms. Neha is a student of N.S.N. Matriculation, Chennai

The aunty and uncle who were working in the field, took us all around the field and gave us an experience of what all farmers do in their day to day life. That was the day we were let to walk in the sludge with the supervision of adults. I understood what all a farmer does to yield our everyday food.

The group said that 75 first-place awardees and their designated chaperones will be provided "free travel, lodging and access to unforgettable field trip experiences at select historical and cultural sites across the country."

Other opportunities for winners include private tours of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Museum and Learning Center, and the Bank of New York Mellon, the country's oldest bank, both in New York City.

The Statue of Liberty is shown overlooking Lower Manhattan on New York City's Hudson River. A tour of the Statue of Liberty this summer is one of the opportunities offered through a special contest for students. (iStock)

The effort is "in collaboration with BNY Mellon, the 240-year-old global financial services company that played a pivotal role in the development, growth and rise of the United States," the group said in a press release.

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Here, then, lies the deepest value of a field trip: the near accidental, but always significant, encounter with someone whom the student assumes is an Other before the trip, but may discover afterward is startlingly human and known and familiar. For most of us, including our students, that requires seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing, touching. The more we are in face-to-face, real time contact with another, the more likely we are to drop the stereotypes we normally use to keep others boxed away from our familiar world.

W. Michael Ashcraft is a professor of religion at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He received his PhD in American religious history from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His first book was entitled The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture, published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2002. He has edited and contributed chapters to collections and is the book review editor for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. He is currently working on a book about the history of the study of new religious movements. He regularly teaches undergraduate courses on ethics, world religions, religions in America, gender and religion, method and theory in the study of religion, new religious movements, and peace studies. He is married to Carrol K. Davenport, an Episcopal priest and hospice chaplain. They have two daughters.

Header Image: Snake handling at Pentecostal Church of God, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky, September 15, 1946 (National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 541335). Photo by Russell Lee. In the Public Domain.

The second station I went to was when we got to use stimpmeters on the green to measure the green speed. We got 12-feet, but once they used a machine called a roller over the green, the green speed increased, with an average of 12.7. THAT was pretty cool!

The third station I got to go to was a soil station. This very kind gentleman from Toro taught us about the different kinds of seeds, grasses and more. I learned that you can graduate from colleges with a major in soil science and grass studies (COOL!) We also learned all about the different components of grass that differentiate them from one another and how to identify them. We learned about rhizomes, which are bud-shaped roots growing out the sides of grass plants that aid in spreading grass roots, making more grass plants! Awesome!

The fifth station was about putting. I learned about tee boxes, and a woman named Coach G taught us the proper way to putt a golf ball on a green. The woman complimented me multiple times about my flawless putting form. That made me happy.

The sixth station was about testing pH levels of water, and I found out that the golf course uses effluent water to water the golf greens. We also learned about this device that measures the density of water in the greens (costing $3K), and we carefully used them to measure how much water was in a green, indicating the loss and gain of water on and in the green during the day through evaporation and transpiration.

Anyway, this concludes the field trip essay. Overall, everything was VERY high quality, and everything was very interactive and hands-on. They provided learning resources for both visual and paper learners. The only thing I would have liked was if we actually got to play golf on the par three course. THAT would have been fun, along with a slightly longer field trip. It was an honor to be one of the first groups in the area to do this field trip, and I for sure will remember this trip for years to come.

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