Field Trips
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Field Trips are
one of the Girl Scout ways for getting
actively involved within the community by participating in some
experiential learning.Two
of my favorite trips were going to the science
museum and going camping. Each teaches you vital information that you
should
know as a citizen. The science museum is self-explanatory for what it
teaches
you, but camping teaches you survival skills.
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Science
Museum These field trips taught us some very important information about how science has been improving over the years. In simple terms, we had learned about all four main science subjects. This science museum also made us become more aware of how to take care of our environment. They taught us how we, as individuals, can help the environment. This follows up with what “Spaceship Earth” was talking about when they said, “Think Globally, Act Locally” (Heath and Potter). Ourselves as individuals can only do so much as one person, but going along with that statement can help us learn what our capabilities are.  |
Camping  Camping is a wonderful way to experience the outdoors, but you also get experience so much more. Camping took away most of our technology use, and it forced us to survive on what we had on us at the time. We had to use the natural outdoors as our only resources. We didn’t have a supermarket nearby, we didn’t have a computer to look directions up, and we didn’t have the neatest bathrooms. Instead, we had a little bathhouse, fire to cook our food, and tents to put over our head. Being in the outdoors gave you a sense of, “…the place where my engagement with democracy is rooted; the place where I have found an unbeckoned and unexpected sense of patriotism”(Nelson, Richard and Patriots for the American Land). Going camping made me appreciate the land that I live on and how pure some parts of it are. From land that was untouched, that is what our country started out as. |