Field Trips Your Students Actually Want to Go On
Some of the best memories from grade school are made at field tips. Field trips offer students something they can't get from lectures or textbook pages—hands - on fun! Here are some metro Detroit attractions to visit with your students. They're great places to make memories and, of course, learn something too!
⒈ Belle Isle Nature Center (Detroit)
Availability: Wednesday, Thursday or Friday at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m.
Admission: Free
Enjoy both indoor and outdoor animal exhibits. Programs include a deer feeding, a hands – on activity and discovery time.
⒉ Michigan Science Center (Detroit)
Availability: Wednesday – Friday (hours vary, also Tuesdays from Oct. 8, 2017, to Jan. 7, 2018)
Admission: Varies by experience you select
Interact with more than 250 hands - on exhibits that explore space, —health, physical science, engineering and more.
⒊ Diamond Jack's River Tours (Detroit)
Availability: Monday - Friday May 1 to Oct. 31 at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m.
Admission: S 9/ person
See 16 miles of the U.S. and Canada Detroit River shoreline, ocean - going and Great Lakes ships, a light house, the fire boat, parks, ship terminals, a mail boat and much more.
⒋ Arts & Scraps (Detroit)
Availability: Monday, Wednesday or Friday
Admission: Varies by age and number in group
Let your students' imaginations run wild. They'll think, create and learn while re – imagining recycled industrial materials. You can create a customized topic.
In an effort to fight the "throw - away culture" and promote reuse and repair, the city of Berlin has taken the unique step of opening its own secondhand department store.
This isn't your grandma's thrift shop (旧货商店). It resells perfectly good items that would otherwise be thrown away. A pun (双关)on the German words for "department store" and "conserving house", B - Wa(h)renhaus sells a wide variety of products. Far from simply selling old items, the electronic goods have been fixed by expert technicians and come with year's guarantee. And, to reach more secondhand shoppers, the store was set up right in the middle of the famous Karstadt department store.
With the success of its first six - month trial run, the city plans to open four more similar operations in other parts of Berlin. By 2030, it hopes to have at least one location in each of Berlin's 12 districts. Since 2008, the city has reduced average annual household waste by about 25 pounds per resident. It also recycles about 49% of its mineral construction waste. Currently, the city estimates (估计) that 8% of abandoned electronic goods and 6% of huge items thrown away can actually be reused.
"Three years ago, we started collecting all kinds of used goods," city spokesperson Dorothee Winden said. "The goal is to give these things a new life with somebody who can use them."
Once a blind man fell flat on his face, which was awful but finally harmless. His service dog, however, was trained lo tum to an adult if the owner had an epileptic seizure (癫瘤发作). While the dog did what it was taught, the first person it found was merely annoyed but not alarmed. Thankfully, the dog's owner was not in the situation of medical emergency. But the experience inspired him to share this information on social media, "If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help," the owner explained. "Don't get scared, don't get annoyed, and follow the dog! If the first person doesn't cooperate, it moves on.
Referring to the accident, a TV presenter asked a dog trainer, Olivia, some basic questions about service dogs, including how humans should react if an unaccompanied service dog approaches them.
"What they're going to do is sniff and gently push your leg," the trainer explained, specifically noting that service dogs are not usually trained to jump or bark. "If you see a dog in a vest without a person around it, follow it." When asked if one should say something to indicate they're prepared to follow the dog, Olivia said," there's no clear command. Just start walking wherever the dog leads."
Olivia concluded the TV show by adding that those who rely on service dogs could train their companions to move along to someone else, if the first person the dog came upon reacted negatively to its request. Doing so could finally save the owner's life.
Earth Hour is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature It's a big event usually at the end of March every year. On this evening, people "go dark".
It's true that turning off lights for just one hour saves only a small amount of power. On one level, joining in Earth Hour makes people think about the problem of climate change and what we can do in everyday life to protect nature.
But on another level, a large number of people's acting together sends a powerful message to governments and companies. They begin considering green issues when making big decisions.
'The logo (标识) of Earth Hour is "60 +". The number 60 is for the 60 minutes of Earth Hour. In fact, people who join in Earth Hour say that taking pat makes them want to do more for the environment.
Musicians give concerts by playing acoustic (原声的) instruments instead of electric ones, and using candles instead of electric lights. Celebrity chefs (大厨) have created special recipes for families to prepare and eat by candle light. Tree - planting sessions, group walks and runs are also among the options.
A. But this is only the beginning.
B. Earth Hour represents every hour of every day.
C. After all, everyone has to answer for what they have done.
D. Besides turning off the lights, people get involved in other events.
E. It pushes them to take urgent measures by making changes to policies.
F. That is, they switch off all unnecessary lights at the same time for one hour.
G. The plus invites people to continue their action even after Earth Hour is finished.
When I was a little girl of seven years old, my mother enjoyed reading books. She asked my father to bring many 1 from the town library. My father usually brought as many books as the librarian 2 at a time. My mother would not like anyone to 3 her and liked finishing a story without any breaks.
One day, my father managed to get the best 4 that the librarian recommended. After my mother knew that, she 5 bought some hot dogs because she thought that it was great for us all to enjoy the 6, accompanied by some family chats. My mother could 7 wait to give out the hot dogs and she was lost in the new novel. My father felt it 8 for her not to join in the family chats.
Now it was time to 9 something in our family. On a festival season, some guests 10 us at our home. We had a great time enjoying the festival food and the great family 11, but something was bothering my father and that was the 12 of my mother's reading the novel. She sat on a sofa and kept reading her new novel without 13 others. My aunt noticed the behavior of my mother and decided to solve the problem in her own way.
My aunt took my mother's novel away and didn't give it to her until she 14 that she would never get crazy for reading novels in her life. Now, my father is still active after his retirement and my mother is still 15 reading the book but when she is alone.
Of all the (tradition) festivals, the harvest festival can be found in almost every culture. This important agricultural festival takes place all the crops have been gathered in. People celebrate (show) that they are grateful the year's supply of food. In ancient Egypt, the harvest festival (celebrate) during the springtime—the Egyptian harvest season. It (feature) a parade and a great feast with music, dancing, and sports. Today, in some (Europe) countries, people decorate (church) and town halls with flowers and fruit, and get together to celebrate over meal. During the Mid - Autumn Festival in China, families gather to admire the (shine) moon and enjoy delicious mooncakes.
