What better place to visit then Washington, D.C.? I will never forget my 8th grade field trip to D.C. because it made the pictures within the book come to life; everything we learned about was real and it was right in front of my eyes! The topic would be "taking a look into the past!" What I mean by that is that everything within D.C. has history and a story behind it, there is a reason for its importance and being located in the area. Seeing the ten landmarks that I have chosen for my students would bring history to life, and being able to learn how we got to where we are today. Even though I have never been a huge history buff, I do think history is important to share with students, so they get a taste of what happened or what is still happening, and how progress has been made.
The topic would essentially be how leaders of our history impacted our future such as presidents which are a few landmarks I had chosen such as Lincoln and Jefferson Memorial, George Washington Monument and Ford's Theater, as well as the current president and residing in the White House. I then focused on leaders as in soldiers discussing the Korean War Veteran's Memorial as well as the Arlington Cemetery and being able to relate all those soldiers as fighting for our country. One of my favorite landmarks in Washington, D.C. is the Holocaust Museum this indicates a leader who impacted our future within a negative outcome but essentially sticks to the fact that leaders create an outcome whether it will be a positive or negative one.
The students will look at the buildings, pictures, descriptions and be able to take a sense of what the landmark is about. Each student will view the landmarks differently, but seeing the landmark will bring some clarity of the landmark to the student. There is nothing particular I would want them to look at, when visiting landmark you never pin point one thing to view, you want to take everything in. As I stated before after reading something from a book, seeing it in person will bring so much more meaning.
You can take a look at my map here at: http://goo.gl/maps/sen3S
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