Field Trip

Field Trip Information 2019

October 11th - Milky Way Farm - Golden Rams Team

October 25th - Milky Way Farm - Pride Team

November 1st - Milky Way Farm - Knights Team

9:00 am - 2:00 pm (bring a bagged lunch and drink) - $30.00 cost per student - cost includes transportation, nurse, and tour - bring a bagged lunch and drink

http://www.milkywayfarm.com/

November 22nd - Owl Presentation - In-house Assembly

We will be having Zoo America come and do a presentation on Burrowing Owls (like in the book Hoot) and other Birds of Prey. - $4.00 per student - cost includes presentation

http://www.zooamerica.com/

January 2020 - We Could Be King- In-house documentary- no charge

We will be watching a powerful documentary chronicling Germantown and Martin Luther King High Schools in Philadelphia, PA. They were bitter rivals for over 40 years. Two years back, a budget crisis caused Philadelphia to lay off over 4000 employees and close two dozen schools, including Germantown High. Now Germantown must merge with their former rival, King. Against overwhelming odds, a 27-year old first time head coach and a new principal fight to inspire young men from difficult circumstances to come together and lift each other toward a better future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wuPc0rWHNA

January/February 2020 Holocaust Museum Play - In-house Assembly

Lida Stein and the Righteous Gentile - ($4.00)

The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center is proud to offer the Anne Frank Theater Project, an interactive experience that encourages critical thinking, compassion, and inquiry. The performances are appropriate for audiences ranging from 6th grade students to senior citizens. They are intended for use in public and private schools, youth groups, and religious schools of all denominations. The performances are curriculum appropriate for students learning about the Holocaust and World War II, those reading novels from or about that era, and for teaching about prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry while also heightening awareness that moral courage can move one to action and assist in improving the lives of others. These performances, with guided facilitated discussion, use the lessons of the Holocaust as a background to discuss current issues and make the Holocaust relevant to the world today.

Lida Stein and the Righteous Gentile, is a 50 minute play that follows “ordinary” people from “ordinary” families caught up in the extraordinary political and social upheaval of the Nazi era. It focuses on the relationship between Lida Stein, a Jewish teenage girl, and her best friend Dora Krause, a German teenage girl. Lida's parents are forced (by Nazi decrees which are announced throughout the play by a Nazi officer) to give up their daughter to the Krause family who have agreed to hide them. Lida continues to learn her school lessons from Dora's mother. Gradually Dora becomes a staunch Hitler supporter and becomes extremely racist and anti-Semitic against her once-best friend.

The play probes these issues from the perspective of teenagers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who are swept up in life-altering decisions about friendship, politics and family loyalty in difficult times.

The audience discussion that follows addresses two key aspects of the Holocaust era: the gradual intimidation and eventual segregation of the Jewish community from the larger society, and the characters, motivations and consequences of the decisions of friendly and non-friendly German adults and youth. The audience discussion focuses on peer pressure and its impact on decision-making, family loyalty, and personal responsibility and personal safety versus moral strength and commitment.

The play itself takes approximately 50 minutes and the discussion can take up to 30 minutes. Therefore we ask for about an hour and a half for the entire program. The time can be revised slightly to meet a school assembly program schedule. This can be performed at your school or at the Museum.

http://www.holocaustawarenessmuseum.org/content/Anne-Frank-Theater-Project