Field Trips
- Grade Level:
- High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
- Subject:
- Science
- State Standards:
- Life Sciences: HS- LS2-2; HS-LS2-7; HS-LS4-6. Earth and Space Sciences: HS-ESS2-2; HS-ESS2-5; HS-ESS2-7; HS-ESS3-1; HS-ESS3-3; HS-ESS3-6; HS-ESS3-2. Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science: HS-ETS1-2;HS-ETS1-3;HS-ETS1-4
The battle that saved Washington, DC from Confederate capture was, and is to this day, on farmland. Through this field trip, environmental science, agriculture, or general science students will explore how farmers, past and present, play an important role in water quality stewardship of the Monocacy River and its tributaries. After completing pre-visit, in-class activites, students will visit Monocacy National Battlefield and apply their knowledge, within groups, to evaluate best management practices in agriculture and the state of the farmland at Monocacy National Battlefield. A post-visit, in-class activity will complete the experience.
Bridging the Watershed is an outreach program of the Alice Ferguson Foundation, in partnership with the National Park Service and area schools, which offers secondary school students opportunities to study realworld science in national parks. Its purpose is to promote student academic achievement, personal connections with the natural world, lifelong civic engagement, and environmental stewardship through hands-on, curriculum-based, outdoor studies in national parks and public lands.
For more information on participating in this field study, contact the BTW program.
Last updated: February 11, 2019