What is the Exploring Creation Field Trip Journal?
The Exploring Creation Field Trip Journal is a wonderful, colorful journal which includes more than 100 field trip ideas as well as pages for your student to journal their field trips and family vacation in a fun, semi-guided manner. Additionally, the Exploring Creation Field Trip Journal includes teacher and student checklists to help plan and prepare for field trip, which it is a field trip to one of their many suggestions like government, nature walks, park, or museums, or one you have planned yourself.
The journal allows the student to draw a map of the trip, write about the day including his or her favorite part, draw a picture or add a photo of the trip, and record the date, time, and weather. This spiral-bound book has a thick plastic cover to make it durable enough to carry around on the trip. The pages are full-color with lots of space for recording a field trip or vacation.
How we used the Exploring Creation Field Trip Journal
We do like our field trips. I’ll admit, lately, they have been less than in the past, but they have been multiplying lately, which is good. Just last week we had 2 trips and we have several in June and July planned already. That doesn’t even account for all our spontaneous trips. So this is going to be a fun way to record our field trip memories this summer.
There is also a page to record destinations and things about your state. My daughter thought it was fun to write down the places she has been in the United States so far. This is a great place to record this and the date so that you can keep track.
We took a spontaneous field trip to the zoo so we didn’t have the journal with us but my daughter, age 10, decided to record everything as soon as she got home. She thought it was fun to talk about her day and think about what her favorite part of the day was and write about it. She drew a map of her favorite part of the zoo and talked about the dolphin show (of course). She then talked about sitting in the splash zone and watching her baby sister get splashed and look at the cool dolphins. She also enjoyed drawing a picture of a dolphin to remember the day.
Next we took a trip to go strawberry picking. They were having a strawberry festival so there was lots to do. We took lots of pictures and she was excited to be able to include a photo in the journal of the trip. She drew a map of the festival and talked about how yummy the strawberries were. Interestingly her favorite part of the trip was playing music with the band that was there. See, you learn something when you record your trips! My son’s favorite part was holding the hen. So much for the strawberries, right?
There are also pages included in the journal to record places you have explored around the world. Since the kids have not been outside of the United States yet, they did not fill this out yet, but my daughter was quick to tell me which country she wanted as her first entry in their part of the journal – France! If we are ever given the opportunity to take them, I’m sure we will be sure to journal all about that amazing trip!
My daughter liked that you could draw and right and include photos. It almost seemed like it was a scrapbook that was guided. This was really good for her and she very much enjoyed the journal and looks forward to recording her summer camps and trips this summer.
Overall I felt that the Exploring Creation Field Trip Journal was an excellent, quality product that allowed for a journal of our trips to be easily done within a great, semi-guided format. Being able to document our trips is a great addition to our homeschool and I can see this being something we would continue to use. I have always thought it would be good to do a journal or something after we return from field trips but it always seemed like more school or a chore. The Exploring Creation Field Trip Journal has everything easily laid out making it so easy to use and fun for the kids.
Though my son is not writing yet, he did enjoy answering the questions and telling his sister and me his favorite parts. I hope that in the future he will enjoy filling one out as well. This would be a good thing to keep for the future to help document our years as well as fun times for the kids and as a family.
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