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FreshPlans Visits the Ozark Folk Center

  By RebeccaHaden field trips, social studies

  The Ozark Folk Center is a state park in Mountain View, Arkansas, where a mountain town has been recreated as living history. Here visitors can get a greater understanding of the life of American pioneers. Certainly, most of the people in a town like this in the 1800s would… Continue reading

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FreshPlans Visits Farmers Markets

  By RebeccaHaden field trips, video

We went to a city market and a country one. Check out our Farmers Market Lesson Plans, too! Continue reading

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FreshPlans Interviews an Entrepreneur

  By RebeccaHaden 21st century skills, field trips, technology

Dr. Douglas Hutchings tells us about his experience as an entrepreneur. Continue reading

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FreshPlans Visits a Scientific Research Lab

  By RebeccaHaden field trips, science

  We got to go to the High Density Electronics Center at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. Dr Douglas Hutchings took us in to see the place where he and his colleagues work on their innovative solar energy invention.   Some parts of the lab look a lot like an… Continue reading

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FreshPlans Visits a Grist Mill

  By RebeccaHaden economics, field trips, science, social studies
War Eagle Mill

  …a what? Long ago, millers were very important people in any village. A mill would take the grain farmers grew and grind it into flour or meal so people could bake with it.This essential step in the progression from raw materials to finished goods makes a good lesson in… Continue reading

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FreshPlans Visits the Art Museum

  By RebeccaHaden art, field trips
Rosie and Gideon at Crystal Bridges

We were among the first visitors at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. It was actually still under construction, but it was a wonderful field trip. We approached the museum along a half mile Art Trail which has sculptures along it like this one, “Shore Lunch” by Dan Ostermiller.… Continue reading

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FreshPlans Visits a Cherokee Village

  By RebeccaHaden field trips, social studies
Cherokee National Museum

  We went to the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The museum itself is filled with interesting artifacts. We were most excited about visiting the Ancient Village, which shows what life was like among the Cherokee at the time of the Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving. We gathered under the museum’s clock to… Continue reading

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FreshPlans Goes to Rome

  By RebeccaHaden field trips
Josepha Haden of FreshPlans

FreshPlans is part of Google Earth’s Pangaean group, so we had the opportunity to attend the Google Earth Summit in Rome in October, 2011. There we learned a lot of great stuff about Google Earth and how to use it even better in the classroom, as well as a lot… Continue reading

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Football Math

  By RebeccaHaden field trips, Lesson Plans, math

  Football is all about math. Players’ rankings, points, yards, penalties — it’s all numbers. Even the music played by the band is full of quarter notes and eighth notes. You can just pull examples from football when you’re using a football theme, or when you have a class that’s… Continue reading

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FreshPlans Goes to the Insect Festival

  By RebeccaHaden field trips, science
Insect Theater

  There’s nothing like a good festival! We rarely miss the Insect Festival at the University of Arkansas. Here, the kids give actors in the Insect Theater a hug. The Insect Festival is an opportunity for the students in the entomology department to share their enthusiasm for arthropods with schoolchildren… Continue reading

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