Field Trip Election

Please post ideas for our field trip in the comments below.  Be sure to include your name and grade. 

Possible Ideas to Get You Started:

Chicago Botanic Gardens 
HUGE gardens to explore (Japanese Gardens with waterfalls and islands, prarie, rose gardens, greenhouses, etc.)

The Grove
Environmental education programs and life in early America 

Forest Preserve  
This involves exploring the forest, playing games in forest/fields, and possibly helping clear out invasive species like buckthorn and garlic mustard

Illinois Holocaust Museum

The Field Museum

What other ideas do you have?  Please post them in the comments section.

Election Websites

Hello students!

Here are a few election websites that I'd like you to look through.

http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1968 

GREAT resource to watch old advertisements of US presidential candidates. 

 

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/political-ad-tracker/video/848245/barack-obama-trust

videos and then analysis section—GREAT to use!  This is the site we used to find our other advertisements.

http://www.factcheck.org/

http://projects.wsj.com/campaign-ads-2012