Welcome!
You have found the Field Learning home page.
Our mission is to encourage
parents to learn with their children "in the field". Instead of field trips
being a once-every-few-months excuse to get out of the house, we promote
a more frequent exploration of the vast resources at our disposal: God's
creation, artifacts, museums, experts, hobbyists and people from all over
the world.
It could be...
the neighbor next door you see late at night watching the stars through his telescope...or the naturalist
at the local wildlife sanctuary who is willing and able to answer all your
kids' questions about bats.
Or maybe...
A visit to an historic theater
to see a movie about camels
in the Gobi Desert yields discussions about Vaudeville, the decline
of small towns, Mongolian history and culture, animal
husbandry, and folk music. No special vocabulary worksheets are necessary for your child
to discover new words like yurt, Genghis Khan, Charlie Chaplin, horse-head
fiddle, nomad, and sandstorm. And then maybe you follow up with library books and websites
about Mongolia. Or maybe you listen to some music of the Steppe by
Tuvan throat singers Huun-Huur-Tu.
In the give and take of comments and questions, your children learn. More importantly, they learn not only your answers to their questions but also which things are worth knowing and which questions are worth asking.
The calendar is no longer a feature of this website, but we hope that the resource pages will direct you to learning places near by.
Thanks for visiting! Questions or comments? Send 'em here.
