New Hampshire State House Field Trip

Last week the the fourth grade classes at Mount Pleasant School took a field trip to the New Hampshire Historical Museum and the New Hampshire State House in Concord. It was an enjoyable trip filled with learning. We even got to meet Governor John Lynch, who came out of a meeting just to meet the students and talk with them a bit! This is an Animoto video of our visit to the State House.



Here is an Animoto video of our visit to the New Hampshire State Historical Society. We were investigating everyday things that people used in the past.

Our Benjamin Franklin Museum

Here is an Animoto video of some of the Benjamin Franklin projects my class made for a Benjamin Franklin Museum. We read about Benjamin Franklin in the Scott Foresman story "Out of the Blue" based on the Jean Fritz book, "What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?" Earlier in the year I had bought a copy of the book, "Amazing Ben Franklin Inventions" by Carmella Van Vleet and decided to use many of the creative ideas in it with my class. Every student chose a project that was in some way related to Benjamin Franklin. The projects were not difficult and they were fun for the students to make. We displayed our projects and posters as well as presented our projects to the other fourth grade classes. This is the book that is full of ideas, clever projects, and interesting activities. I would like to do this activity again with another class. We were able to learn about all the different activities, ideas, and inventions that Benjamin Franklin was involved with.

The Little Red Schoolhouse

Our class had a fantastic trip to The Little Red Schoolhouse. Our time was shorter than normal due to bus difficulties, but we still had a wonderful time learning what school was like in 1842. Here is a Voice Thread of our trip.


Here is an Animoto video of our field trip.

VoiceThread for Farm to Factory

Recently we had a classroom "field trip" from the Tsongas Industrial History Center as part of the Lowell National Historic Park. We learned through this entertaining and hands-on experience the changes exeperienced as farming communities like early Nashua changed into industrial cities. Here is our VoiceThread documenting what we learned.

A Voice Thread on an Interesting Picture

We did this voicethread on an interesting photograph that was in the Boston Globe. We enjoyed expressing our thoughts and learning how to record with a microphone on a voicethread.

Our First Voicethread on the Southwest Region

We made this using Voicethread to tell about the Southwest Region.