Schoolhouse of Wonder’s At-School-Field-Trips offer a unique and exhilarating experience in the classroom or school grounds akin to our very popular Nature School Classes at West Point on the Eno Park in Durham. If you want to save the cost and time of travel, have Schoolhouse of Wonder bring one of our experiential programs to you. At-School-Field-Trip Programs are available as a single day program. We can schedule programs at your school for the Winter to deliver between January 10 and March 4, 2011. Our Winter Season for “At School Programs” is discounted to $7 per student.
The Programs:
Early American Life and Community
Adaptable for Grades K - 8 - Full Day
In the AM: This kinesthetic class delves into the daily life as early settlers experienced it, down to the details of chores now lost to this modern age of machines and conveniences. Explore the day-to-day living of Piedmont pioneers, learn about plant medicines, experience simple cooking, churning butter, and eating the product of our labor, and washing, rinsing, ringing and hanging clothes in the sun. To make our hearth fire, we will need to find tinder and strike a flint and steel fire in this hands-on day of living history. Early American games complement this class born from the living traditions of experiential education.
In the PM: Before being engaged in a variety of afternoon hands-on activities, students will take, by way of powerpoint, a virtual tour of a grist mill. In a by-gone day this was the grocery store, shopping mall, post office and community center of many a mid-Carolina community. The class includes the small-farm replication of the very same tools and machines used by settler families looking to save the expense of paying a miller: the Black Eagle Cornsheller, the hominy block and the Corona Corn Grinder. The hands-on corn shucking, hand shelling, and sifting of meal are all part of the fun of learning. The class culminates with a shared meal of cornbread and our home-made butter.
*Kindergarten & Grades 1, 2, & 3 Social Studies Objective 3, Grade 4 Social Studies Objective 3 & 7, NCSCS
Ancient Days, Native Ways
Adaptable for Grades K - 8, Full Day
No people have lived so intimately with the Eastern Forest, known the ways of its animals, its rocks and earth, its plants, as have the indigenous peoples of America. Built on children’s inherent interest in Nature, “Ancient Days, Native Ways” students imaginatively and interactively discover lifestyles of the woodland Native Americans.
In the AM: The village springs to life as we imaginatively divide roles into those of men and women, through boys’ and girls’ games and interactive demonstrations learning about the dynamics of the divisions of labor. Earth skills such as friction fire-making and simple cooking - ting snack for the afternoon- are just a part of this exciting well-loved program.
In the PM: We explore the techniques of indigenous hunting skills, including tracking and stalking, bow-and-arrow, the primitive spear, and traps. Students gain direct experience with the ancient principles of foraging and observing the ways of animals so fundamental to all native peoples.
*Grade 4 Social Studies Objectives 2 & 3; Grade 5 Social Studies Objective 3, NCSCS.
Price: $10/student
Discounts
The At School Field Trips will be discounted for the Winter Season, January 10 through March 4, 2011, to $7/student.