Let's Connect the Pieces - King's Island Field Trip
My students need an end of the year class trip to King's Island to put classroom concepts into real life perspective and involve parents in the learning.
Field trips are a wonderful way for children to connect what they are learning in class to the outside world. For the first few months of school, we learned about roller coasters all throughout the world: their velocity, height, rider capacity, and design. This field trip to King's Island would be the icing on the cake. Work will be sent home to prepare the students even more for this trip. Then parents will be invited to go in order to help connect the learning inside the classroom with the outside world. Without taking parents along, we would have large groups which would make it difficult to complete the work.
A typical day in my classroom involves a rich curriculum with many hands-on math problems and the use of manipulatives.
Students receive the normal math instruction, but are then ability grouped according to their math skills for a second rotation for math. These students have worked really hard all year. Their scores definitely show their hard work and improvement. They are entitled to a reward for all of their hard work. This would also allow the parents to get involved in the learning process.
My Project
These students completed a project on roller coasters at the beginning of the year. They looked at height, speed, duration, angle of drop, type of coaster, restraining device, and environment. They collected data on several roller coasters throughout the world. They worked to find the average speed of these roller coasters and also determined what helped make a roller coaster a thrill. With their parents, they will have to design a roller coaster that would help a fictional amusement park increase their sales. This project will help with the ticket costs for an end of the year class trip to King's Island to put classroom concepts into real life perspective. This may be the only time our students and families are able to experience an amusement park.
Please allow our students and families to visit a place where imaginations soar, roller coasters rock, and dreams really do come true.
Give them a chance to experience and apply the math that they have learned. They will forever love math!
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