October 23,24,25, 2024
DC Trip Documents
Info at a Glance along with the Medical Information, Permission and Behavior Contract Forms were provided with your schedules. If you are going, and we hope everyone is, these completed and signed forms are due to be turned into your Social Studies teacher by Friday, August 25th. See the Info at a Glance document for a schedule of pre-trip deadlines, meetings, and activities.
DC Itinerary Slide Show for Students (Shared in Social Studies to help students plan their DC Hot Spots Projects)
Links to DC Memorial, Monument, and Museum Websites
D.C. Website Links Follow this link to the best websites we've found for every stop on our itinerary.
NPR Article and Video of Marion Anderson's Public Performance at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939
Video of Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963
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DC 2024 Shared Photo Folders
You can copy/ save pictures from the DC Bus Twitter streams which document the trip for each of our buses (see contact info link below), but here also are even more photos organized by bus that you can view and copy for your DC projects or your personal use. If you have some best of photos that you'd like to share, please rename them with a title and your name before posting them, for example pfrankmann-Antietam1.jpg
2024 DC Hot Spots Projects
DC Parent Meeting Slideshow (2024)
2024 Packing List and Contact Information
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DC 2023 Shared Photo Folders
You can copy/ save pictures from the DC Bus Twitter streams which document the trip for each of our buses (see contact info link below), but here also are even more photos organized by bus that you can view and copy for your DC projects or your personal use. If you have some best of photos that you'd like to share, please rename them with a title and your name before posting them, for example pfrankmann-Antietam1.jpg
Bus 1 Bus 2 Bus 3 Bus 4 Bus 5 Bus 6
2023 DC Hot Spots Projects
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2022 DC Hot Spots Projects
2022 DC Shared Photo Folders : You can copy/ save pictures from the DC Bus Twitter streams which document the trip for each of our buses (see contact info link below), but here also are even more photos organized by bus that you can view and copy for your DC projects or your personal use. If you have some best of photos that you'd like to share, please rename them with a title and your name before posting them, for example pfrankmann-Antietam1.jpg
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National Parks Washington DC National Mall App
Here's the link to the NPS site which explains the features and then links directly to the App stores where you can download it to your device.
Here is a link to the National Park National Mall App Preview in iTunes- National Mall App Preview
Smithsonian Museums Apps. Here is a link to a menu of Apps.
Trust for the National Mall World War II Memorial App
Arlington National Cemetery App- Link to App Store for Ipad, Iphone.
Antietam National Battlefield App
U.S. Capitol Visitor's Center Apps- Rotunda, State Statues, My Capitol, Capitol Visitor's Center...
Mount Vernon App
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Capitol Visitor's Center Orientation Video
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2019 DC Trip
2019 DC Hot Spots Project
2019 DC Photos
Follow this link to access and view folders of photos taken by chaperones on each bus. You may use any of these for your projects and scrapbook, but please don't cut, modify, or move any of the photos that have been shared. Please keep checking back, teachers will continue to add pictures over the course of our first week back.
DC Photo File Technical Instructions for Converting HEIC format (iPhone) to JPG (required for Google Slides)
DC Photo File Technical Instructions
Follow this link to access and view folders of photos taken by chaperones on each bus. You may use any of these for your projects and scrapbook, but please don't cut, modify, or move any of the photos that have been shared. Please keep checking back, teachers will continue to add pictures over the course of our first week back.
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Follow this link to Bus Photo Galleries posted by Teachers on Google Drive. You are welcome to use any of these for your projects and scrapbook. (Photos for 2014,15, and 16 are linked below)
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Follow this link to Bus Photo Galleries posted by Teachers on Google Drive. You are welcome to use any of these for your projects and scrapbook.
Reminder- your photo contest pictures are due to be submitted to Mrs. Tyrrell and Mr. Frankmann by this Friday, November 4th. Please e-mail them as attachments to pfrankmann@aurora-schools.org or to ntyrrell@aurora-schools.org. In your message please note which category you are entering each photo for. Categories are listed on the back of your passport.
Follow this link to Bus Photo Galleries posted by Teachers on Google Drive
NOTE- BUS 4 PICTURES WERE INSERTED INTO GOOGLE DOCS. OPEN IN DRIVE, AND SCROLL TO VIEW PICTURES. IF YOU SELECT A PICTURE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO COPY IT INTO YOUR GOOGLE SLIDES PROJECT.
Follow this link to access DC trip photos on Google Drive. You can now only copy photos. They are organized by bus.