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My Field Trip and Travel Journal

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Help your kids to really process what they’ve learned on field trips and vacations on the 150-page My Field Trip and Travel Journal!


 

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
When our youngest two boys were 9 and 10, we took an insanely awesome field trip through the Western United States. Imagine this: 17 days, 14 states, the Navajo Nation, 10 National Parks and Monuments, two science museums, a ghost town, and three large cities. It was fabulous.


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My boys were exposed to natural wonders like spectacular lightning storms, mountains, geysers, tar pits, paint pots, enormous caverns, red rock arches and balanced rocks, the Grand Canyon, and petrified trees. In just 17 days, they encountered a wide array of animals: insects as big as their feet, wolf packs, elk, bison, and thousands of bats. Watching the bats come flying out of the main entrance to the Carlsbad Caverns at dusk was truly spectacular.

Our family loves hiking and climbing and there was plenty of that going on. We hiked through Arches National Park and climbed inside Native American cliff dwellings, underground kivas, and big brick castles.


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Notebooking Our Field Trip in a Travel Journal

I made a field trip and travel journal for my boys to take on our journey, but it really didn’t work out for our kids to write during our trip. I know I read a lot about car-schooling, but that would never fly in our family. Our boys cherish car trips. They provide so much space for observation, and (if we’re going to be honest here) eating and sleeping.

When we got home, I printed our photos and the boys journaled about each site they’d visited. They marked their maps, pasted in photos and paper souvenirs like tickets, and listed all of the places they’d been. We worked on notebooking about one place each day, so it took us a good three weeks or so to do all of our writing. We just skipped any writing classes in our curriculum during that time.

My boys have a wonderful record of their trip, they did their notebooking soon enough after our return to really remember the events, and they were able to think critically about everything they saw and did.

Our field trips and travel since have been shorter–mostly one-day trips, but those trips have been important learning journeys for our kids. They notebook about each journey and mark it on their map, including photos from the trip.

If you’ve been around Thinking Kids for any time at all, you know I’m a huge fan of the practice of notebooking. My children are excellent writers because of it.

Keeping a field trip and travel journal for each child has been a wonderful experience for our family and I wanted to share that with you as well, so that your kids can benefit from the practice.


My Field Trip and Travel Journal

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
The My Field Trip and Travel Journal is available in both digital and print editions!


The My Field Trip and Travel Journal is a wonderful record of trips for your children, with watercolor artwork and quotes from Christian history throughout.

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
As your children travel and explore the world around them, you’ll want to have a way for them to keep track of where they’ve been and what they’ve seen. The My Field Trip and Travel Journal will help them do just that.

Your kids will keep track of:

  • Places They’ve Been
  • Places They’d Like to Go
  • Mapping Their Journeys
  • A Record of Their Trips
  • Trip Dates

Your kids will learn:

  • To Keep Lists
  • About Geography
  • Where They Are in the World
  • Notetaking Skills
  • Basic Memoir Story Writing
  • To Plan Trips on the Calendar



Where I’ve Been and Where I’m Going

Do you remember all of the trips you went on as a child? Neither do I. There are some I remember, but I don’t know the location. Your children will have a permanent record of the places they’ve explored! There are two lists for your children to use.

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
Your kids will record:

  • Places They’ve Been
  • Places They’d Like to Go

As your children fill out the list of places they’ve been, remember to prompt them about day trips and small field trips as well as vacations and road trips. The one-hour trip to a factory to see cheese made is an important field trip and should be recorded.

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
Don’t panic if your child lists some truly exotic places they’d like to go on their list. Just affirm that dreaming is fun and that God may take them some exciting places in the course of their life.


Mapping Our Journeys

Your child will have the opportunity to map where they’ve been and to plan where they’d like to go. Your child’s journal will have blank continent maps and country maps of the United States and Canada.

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
The journal also contains pins and hot air balloons to cut out and paste to the maps to show where your child has been and where they plan to visit.

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
Your kids will be able to:

  • Label the Countries of the World
  • Mark Where They’ve Been
  • Show Where They’d Like to Go
  • Color in Different Countries
  • Mark Their Home Location

How to Notebook (and What is Notebooking?)


A Record Of My Trips

The My Field Trip and Travel Journal provides four pages of structured notes for each trip. Your child’s journal will have space to record 31 journeys.

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
Your kids will record:

  • Where They Went
  • The Date of Their Trip
  • What They Saw
  • Who Went With Them
  • Three Things They Learned
  • A Story About Their Trip
  • Drawings and Photos About Their Trip

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
This is a wonderful opportunity for your kids to create a permanent record of their travels, and to develop critical thinking and writing skills at the same time.


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Field Trip and Travel Stickers

Your journal comes a page of field trip and travel badges your child can cut out and paste to the calendar to mark important trip dates. There is space to write the field trip destination on each sticker.

My Field Trip and Travel Journal
Your kids will learn:

    • To Keep Track of Dates
    • To Plan Ahead
  • To Anticipate Their Field Trips

The My Field Trip and Travel Journal will give your kids a permanent record of their trips, and will help them really think through what they’ve seen and learned!
It’s available in both digital and printed versions!


Notebooking Resources for Your Kids!

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