March 31,2010

Capitol and Holocaust Trip

The roads may be confusing, and the Capitol may be strict, but at the end of the day on March 24, 2010 I feel like I made history once again in the city of our capitol with  six other people. The field trip to DC was one that I will never forget. Even if things couldn’t go our way or how we had planned things to go it still became a worthwhile trip. I learned many things about the Capitol and Holocaust Museum was an experience of knowledge that no textbook or resource could ever embed as much of an impact as that day did.

The first place we visited was the Capitol… I thought back to teaching a lesson on the branches of government to a  second grade classroom and taking my Praxis II tests and the different questions I had about government and citizenship. All of my thoughts ran together as I tried to take in how everything is what it is today because of what takes place behind the walls of the capitol.

Next we had an opportunity to go to the House of the Senate. There I was able to watch a Senator from Montana discuss his issue on the health bill that was just recently passed…

After the Senate, we went to the Holocaust Museum…

I learned a lot of valuable information that will stay with me for many years. I learned information that I will teach to my students and information that I will pass on to others. The trip was an eye-opener for me because I was looking through the eyes of a special education and elementary education teacher and student. I found the information I learned to be much more profound and it was a great filed trip.

Megz Albert