Junior High Field Study Day Program

TO COMPLETE AT LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE FIELD STUDY DAY:

Advance Preparation Form should be completed by STUDENT and signed by parent.

1. Decide on activity with family– Job Shadow OR Community Service OR Field Trip

2. Complete the ADVANCE PREP  FORM (orange)

   1.  Choose an essential question for Step 1 (see Handout FSD tips for bank of sample questions)

   2. Complete strand describing activity, get Parent Signature

   3.  Get 2 sources (this is your preliminary research that might help you answer the essential question)

Hints on finding a source

• Try using essential question to search

• Make sure 2 DIFFERENT sources used

• Avoid “yelp” “trip advisor” type sites where it repeats info

• Change question to not specific to get article

• DO NOT write the LINK (URL) on Advance Prep form (see #3)

• DO write the SOURCE on the Advance Prep (remember a source is a person, company, organization that WROTE the information! Usually NOT a www.***.com or anything like that)

3. Post your links to the FSD GOOGLE SPREADSHEET in the school loop assignment description so that I can check your sources and you can access them later 

if turned in completed (all items complete) by DUE DATE POSTED, you get +5/5 points!

if turned in by next day, +4/5 and so on.

SAMPLE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR JOB SHADOW:

• How do I know this career is for me?

• How does this career impact the community?

• How do I prepare for this career?

Field Trip SAMPLE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

• Why is this a great place to visit?

• What makes a field trip a great field trip?

• What do you expect to learn from this field trip?

Community Service SAMPLE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

• Why does _____ activity affect others in the community?

• How does participating in this community event, _____, affect the community?

  • Race for the Arts

  • JDRF Race

  • Walk for Autism

• In what ways does _____ activity impact the community at large?

  • Helping my former teacher

  • Cleaning litter along the creek

  • Working at SPCA

• How does participating in walks for charities effect the community and you?

• In what way does cleaning up litter along creek with Boy Scouts impact the comunity at large?

MLA format typed essay REQUIRED with MLA FORMATTED SOURCES CITED IN BIBLIOGRAPHY at end of essay

INTERNET RESOURCES : Whenever you find information from an internet resource you must give credit to that website.  The proper way to give credit to an internet source is:  (or properly use "EASY BIB CREATOR" when using a google doc as shown in class.)

Web Site Name. "Article." URL. (Access date)

 For example, if you use a video from YouTube as part of a project, you would share that video on your Resources page in the following way: 

 YouTube. "Video Title." http://whatever the link to the video is. (Accessed August 23, 2012).

Community Service IDEAS 

Race for the Arts - see August date in planner http://raceforthearts.com/

Chalk it Up, Labor Day Weekend https://chalkitup.org/join-us/volunteers/

The following organizations compile and publicize numerous volunteer opportunities throughout the Sacramento area.

Hands On Sacramento—The Sacramento region's full-service volunteer action center and a committed advocate for innovative social change.  Search fields can be narrowed for children under 13 or teens 13-17 to find appropriate opportunities for our students.

Volunteer Center of Sacramento—Ongoing and one-time volunteer opportunities in support of Sacramento area non-profit organizations. See the center’s Youth Volunteer Directory for a comprehensive list of nonprofit organizations that welcome youth as volunteers.

MLK Day of Service https://www.nationalservice.gov/serve-your-community/mlk-day-service

More ideas here (but remember to check if connected to an organization in order to use for FSD essay).

To submit your community service hours go here.

FIELD TRIP IDEAS

Local events listed here https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ca--sacramento/events/ or here https://allevents.in/sacramento

Any Visual Art Studio or Gallery, all open free to public on Second Saturdays - see this helpful tip sheet below.

Any Museum or cultural events, festivals, natural or historical points of interest.

More specific links here.

Take a drive and visit outside Sacramento! https://www.thecrazytourist.com/15-best-day-trips-sacramento/

Take a virtual field trip using these broadcasts from CA State Parks - should be 6-8 or HS level webinar. Here you'll find a variety of resources to access California State Parks from the comfort of your own home. 

More virtual field trips HERE

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza The museum is one of Madrid's "Big Three" cultural institutions. From interviews with artists to live restorations, students can explore their extensive collection of videos, virtual tours and other multimedia projects.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art The museum in Seoul has established itself as a prominent cultural platform and leader in Korean art. Using Google Arts and Culture, students can explore four online exhibits, art from the museum collections and walk through the museum grounds.

The Anne Frank House The Amsterdam museum offers an extensive selection of educational materials to learn more about WWII, the Holocaust and prejudice. Resources include a digital lesson about Anne Frank, a decision making game that deals with discrimination and film clips where student share their own experiences with exclusion and discrimination.

The Vatican Museums Students can visit the Vatican without leaving home. The museums offer seven 360 degree virtual tours that allow you to explore everything from the Sistine Chapel to the Pio Clementino Museum.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Take an audio tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic building. Students will learn unexpected facets of the building's history and design from "99% Invisible" podcast host Roman Mars and museum staff.

London National Gallery “Teachers’ Notes” provide useful background information about paintings from the collection, with suggestions on how to use the paintings as a teaching tool. The notes are downloadable PDFs and offer questions that could be used for discussion with students.

NASA Research Centers After exploring NASA’s research centers, students can check out NASA’s collection of STEM resources. Currently, students can take part in Tournament Earth 2020 by voting on their favorite all-time Earth Observatory image.

National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City Using Sketchfab, students can explore artifacts from the museum’s collections in digital 3D format. Students can zoom in on the artifact and learn more about the details of each item.

The de Young Museum Get Smart with Art is an interdisciplinary curriculum package that increases visual literacy, historical knowledge (grades 4th-12th), and expository writing skills. These resources include an image gallery as well as an object information sheet that provides students with a closer look at the artifacts.

The Louvre The museum’s "Closer Look" interactive multimedia modules allow students to see the details of an artwork through a magnifying glass, while commentaries and animations give them its historical and artistic background.

British Museum, London

This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies. You can also find hundreds of artifacts on the museum’s virtual tour.

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Google’s Street View feature lets visitors tour the Guggenheim’s famous spiral staircase without ever leaving home. From there, you can discover incredible works of art from the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary eras.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

This famous American art museum features two online exhibits through Google. The first is an exhibit of American fashion from 1740 to 1895, including many renderings of clothes from the colonial and Revolutionary eras. The second is a collection of works from Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer.

Musée d’Orsay, Paris

You can virtually walk through this popular gallery that houses dozens of famous works from French artists who worked and lived between 1848 and 1914. Get a peek at artworks from Monet, Cézanne, and Gauguin, among others.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

One of Korea’s popular museums can be accessed from anywhere around the world. Google’s virtual tour takes you through six floors of Contemporary art from Korea and all over the globe.

Pergamon Museum, Berlin

As one of Germany’s largest museums, Pergamon has a lot to offer – even if you can’t physically be there. This historical museum is home to plenty of ancient artifacts including the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and, of course, the Pergamon Altar.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Explore the masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age, including works from Vermeer and Rembrandt. Google offers a Street View tour of this iconic museum, so you can feel as if you’re actually wandering its halls.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Anyone who is a fan of this tragic, ingenious painter can see his works up close (or, almost up close) by virtually visiting this museum – the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh, including over 200 paintings, 500 drawings, and over 750 personal letters.