Tabitha Jeffers, Jessica Tucker, and Jenna Bullock
Before, During, and After Activities for Cemetery
Field Trip
Before:
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We will start out by telling the students that there are no such things as ghosts and that
they shouldn’t be afraid. Also, we will take the time to tell the students that they have to
respect the graves and to not bother the flowers or objects around the graves and to
only touch the graves when they are doing their rubbings. They should not run around
the cemetery and they have to stay with their assigned group in the assigned area.
The students will look at maps of the area they will be in. They will have to help draw,
with the teachers help, where the boundaries are and where to stay. This will help the
students familiarize themselves with the gravesite.
Next, the students will be put in their assigned groups and they will have to each create
a booklet, with the help of the QR code named “How to Make Booklet” and the
teacher(s). Then after they are done making their books the students will talk in their
groups about what they think of cemeteries and then share it with the class.
The following QR codes will be shown:
○ Graveyard Prep
○ Website of cemetery
○ pictures of cemeteries
○ how to do rubbing
After all of this is completed they will get on the bus and go to the Anderson Memorial
Gardens cemetery taking only their booklets, pencil, lunchbox, and iPads provided by
teacher(s).
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The students will start off with getting in their assigned groups and use their booklets to
write all of their information.
The first activity for the students to do is go looking around the gravesite area and each
student find a symbol on the gravesites they like the most and do the rubbing of that
symbol in their booklets.
The next activity will be looking at the dates of the graves and seeing who the youngest
person was and the oldest person that had lived. The student would do this by
subtracting the year the person was born from the year they passed away.
The next activity for the students to do is look at all the graves to see which one grave
looks the oldest and which ones look the youngest. While they are doing this they will
use the iPads provided to take pictures of each grave and they can also take pictures of
the symbols they choose.
The class will then have lunch in a picnic area away from the graves.
The last activity the students will do is go to the mausoleum and talk about why they
think they put the bodies in there instead of outside with the others.
Tabitha Jeffers, Jessica Tucker, and Jenna Bullock
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Then, the students will get back on the bus to go back to the school.
After:
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When the students get back they need to sit with their assigned group from the field trip
and get a computer to use. The group can use one computer per child or one computer
per group.
Each student will look up what their symbol they rubbed at the field trip on the internet,
using the Sweet Search Engine. They will need to write a brief paragraph summary
underneath or on the back page of their rubbing.
When the students chose the people they found to be the youngest and oldest people
that lived they will look up one event that was going in the years that they lived by using
the Sweet Search Engine online.
They will also need to just write the event down in their booklets.
The students will also get together and look at the pictures they took with the iPads to
compare their pictures and then put them into collage application to show which ones
they liked the best out of the group.
The last thing the students will do is do an exit slip. The students will be asked to use the
very last page of their booklets to answer the following questions of “What was one thing
they learned today at the cemetery? What surprised them the most about the field trip?
How do they feel about the trip? What do they think of cemeteries now that they have
went on the field trip?”
Then, as the students are leaving they need to turn in the booklets to the teacher(s).