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You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a busload of second graders yell “VACA!” and almost tip a bus rushing to see them. For the third year, my second graders are going to Luray Caverns in the Shenandoah Valley, the longest cave system in the mid-Atlantic. Can you help them get there? They will experience firsthand the formations of the earth that we have studied in class and challenge themselves on a difficult ropes course. As one teacher said, “All of my students surprised me. I didn’t realize how difficult that ropes course would be and could not have anticipated which students would succeed. I learned so much about them.” Another said, “They COULD NOT STOP talking about it. It was a great bonding experience and the perfect culmination of all of our work.” Bruce-Monroe is a dual-language Spanish-English Title 1 school serving mostly English Language Learners from India to El Salvador. Many have never seen rural areas of the U.S. and likely none have ever seen a cavern. The caverns provide opportunities for observation and a concrete example of how Earth changes both quickly and slowly over time. The field trip incorporates environmental engineering and problem solving with a project comparing multiple solutions designed to reduce erosion— a project offered by the caverns museum. This year,, we have explored the changing earth, and the different states of matter. We have created our own slime, explored the changing temperatures from solid ice to water, and explored geodes under a microscope. In reading and writing we have studied informational texts about geology, plants, and how earth formations change over time. While we engage our students in the classroom, they deserve to apply this knowledge firsthand, and see for themselves the amazing formations created by the earth.

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You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a busload of second graders yell “VACA!” and almost tip a bus rushing to see them. For the third year, my second graders are going to Luray Caverns in the Shenandoah Valley, the longest cave system in the mid-Atlantic. Can you help them get there? They will experience firsthand the formations of the earth that we have studied in class and challenge themselves on a difficult ropes course. As one teacher said, “All of my students surprised me. I didn’t realize how difficult that ropes course would be and could not have anticipated which students would succeed. I learned so much about them.” Another said, “They COULD NOT STOP talking about it. It was a great bonding experience and the perfect culmination of all of our work.” Bruce-Monroe is a dual-language Spanish-English Title 1 school serving mostly English Language Learners from India to El Salvador. Many have never seen rural areas of the U.S. and likely none have ever seen a cavern. The caverns provide opportunities for observation and a concrete example of how Earth changes both quickly and slowly over time. The field trip incorporates environmental engineering and problem solving with a project comparing multiple solutions designed to reduce erosion— a project offered by the caverns museum. This year,, we have explored the changing earth, and the different states of matter. We have created our own slime, explored the changing temperatures from solid ice to water, and explored geodes under a microscope. In reading and writing we have studied informational texts about geology, plants, and how earth formations change over time. While we engage our students in the classroom, they deserve to apply this knowledge firsthand, and see for themselves the amazing formations created by the earth.

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