I want to start off by saying thank you to Matt, Jonathan and Scott for three great trips with this grant. The amount of planning required for these is incredible and the fact that the trips have such few hitches is amazing. Thanks again. I would have to say that the places we visited and [...]
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We had a good day touring Fort Ticonderoga and then later the Saratoga Battlefield. When someone asked what Ticonderoga meant, I thought it was named for a nearby pencil factory, but I was wrong (rare of me as I am seldom wrong) it means the land between two waters. Oh, the Native Americans and their [...]
Today was a whirlwind tour of Seneca Falls the home of the women’s right movement, Stanton house, M’Clintock house where Memorial Day started, Seward’s house, Harriet Tubman’s house, and a barge ride on the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York. We made it to Syracuse, New York in time to check into the Sheraton Hotel [...]
Today we visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York along with the Fenemore Art Museum and the Farmer’s Museum. It was a slice of Americana. Nearly a year ago, Paul and I drove out here on our way to Boston with Paul’s 14-year-old son and his 14-year-old friend, Tyler. On July 4th, we stopped [...]
Today we visited the home of one of my favorite Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. My Uncle Bob first got me started by reading The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex both by Edmund Morris. The first biography deals with perhaps the most interesting part of T.D. Roosevelt’s life, the years leading up to his presidency. [...]
Aside from food investigations, we are attending workshops and touring museums to learn about history. Yesterday, we attended a workshop on Slavery in New York. One of the key tasks was to find an artifact of some sort and describe it then develop inquiry type questions that lead students to deeper answers. The object I [...]
Jonathan does it again. After the Natural History Museum, Jonathan, Paul and I traveled to 125th Street in the heart of Harlem to eat dinner at the famed Sylvia’s. People back in Pueblo were awfully nervous about us three venturing to Harlem and eating dinner. It was a superb experience. The people servicing us [...]
We had a terrific day. We caught the ferry to Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty is located, and although we didn’t depart as we were on a time schedule for Ellis Island, it was still awe-inspiring to see Lady Liberty up close. Upon arriving at Ellis Island, we were ushered to a classroom that had recently been [...]
Our last day of having Ed O’Donnell was just great. We walked in the residential section of lower Manhattan which is predominately China Town. The turn-of-the-nineteenth century and the Progressive Era are not usually something a fifth grade teacher covers in much depth (I typically cover the Revolutionary War, the Constitution and the Civil War), but I [...]
Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park Both Once Owned by Jed Clampett
Posted: June 9, 2010 in UncategorizedHey kids, there is a mean, mean teacher named Mr. John Hutchins who does not want you to learn about the great city of New York. He makes fun of the wonderful Mr. Sims who takes the time to send you these well thought out slide shows. I’m sorry that the world is filled with people [...]
