Tag: Field Trips

Taking the Common Core standards outside.

Virtual Field Trip: Missoula Smokejumper Base

Virtual Field Trip: Missoula Smokejumper Base

Just outside Missoula, Montana the legendary smokejumpers train to parachute into fires burning in some of the nation’s most remote areas, from Alaska to New Mexico. Visitors are welcome to tour the facility from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The U.S. Forest Service operates the Missoula Smokejumper Base, home to a unit of about 80 […]

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Opportunity Roundup

Opportunity Roundup

This past Monday I heard about another teacher whose band played in downtown Sacramento over the weekend. Then our school psychologist mentioned he was heading out to sign books (his own) at a pop-up bookstore one of our school counselors had created with his wife.  Me? I was sleepily plodding through my Monday after staying […]

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Victory Gardens: Teaching History Outside

Victory Gardens: Teaching History Outside

Years ago, when my school gardeners needed a theme, my mom introduced me to “victory gardens,” community or family gardens grown during WWI and WWII to increase food production. Much of the commercially processed food needed to be shipped overseas to military personnel fighting those wars and to European civilians going hungry. People here at […]

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Sewer District Lists 2019 Open Trail Dates

Sewer District Lists 2019 Open Trail Dates

We hadn’t been on the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District’s nature trails in almost a year, so we jumped at the chance of a bird watching hike when the e-mail invite landed in my inbox. A bunch of people beat me to the reply button, though, and Sacramento Sewer placed us on a waiting list. […]

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