It also organizes field trips to local colleges and universities.
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"I'm packing the lunches and I'm doing the field trips."
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They also take field trips, including to beaches and parks.
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The verdict from the field trips: Everyone wants non-technical skills.
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The shutdown has also halted school field trips, research and expeditions.
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We're taking field trips to museums and restaurants and people's houses.
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Taking field trips to observe changes in your local natural environment?
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What did his students learn on the field trips he organized?
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They also often include field trips, team building and evening activities.
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University of Arkansas researchers found that children who were taken on field trips to museums performed better in school and scored higher on standardized tests than those whose schools did not take students on field trips.
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It's not an intentional thing—we didn't take any band field trips.
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We go on field trips to the movie theater and whatnot together.
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No swimming pools, no cross-fit classes, no fun weekly field trips.
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Money is going toward field trips, team uniforms, sporting events and fundraisers.
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Field trips can be time consuming to plan and expensive to execute.
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He brought his students on field trips to the curb every year.
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The field trips last year included Vietnamese, Iraqi, Ethiopian, and Salvadoran cuisines.
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This includes teachers who took students on field trips to those sites.
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Or they wish they could join their children for school field trips.
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Instructors offer classes on English and civics and set up field trips.
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She and other patients went on field trips to a grocery store.
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Esvelt makes regular field trips to talk to the public about his work.
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But Bass points out that there are often great opportunities for field trips.
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Every school year also included field trips to productions at the local theaters.
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All field trips have been canceled for the rest of the school year.
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Field Trips is a new column about plant-centric excursions in New York.
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There are also singalongs, field trips and long discussions about sin and salvation.
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The school canceled all field trips for the remainder of the school year.
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The money will pay for uniforms, snacks and other expenses, like field trips.
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For camps, field trips, swimming lessons, and baby supplies, they set aside $500.
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They even get to go on field trips and meet friends from other farms.
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Four Boston public schools canceled field trips to the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
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Remember in grade school field trips when the teacher would assign you a buddy?
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You find yourself going on "field trips" with the group, outings with the teacher.
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To prep McDormand, Macy and the rest, Himelstein took the actors on field trips.
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By age 15, I'd probably been to more open houses than school field trips.
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Elementary school students cannot participate in after-school activities and cannot attend field trips.
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Houser frequently accompanies youth to court appointments and offers enrichment opportunities and field trips.
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Kim has openly slammed executives on previous economic field trips, unlike his reclusive father.
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This was the case both in the classroom and out on real field trips.
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Field trips and collaborative projects give students an intimate view of how contemporary art functions.
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"Every elementary school for 50 miles used to come here for field trips." says Jesus.
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Classroom learning is augmented on field trips through highly specialized programs, tours, presentations and activities.
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Field trips aren't just memorable — they're important, inspiring and integral parts of a learner's curriculum.
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My mom was your typical class parent, chaperoning field trips and going to PTA meetings.
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They then bring their classes on field trips to the state capitol for the Dialog.
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It's like the field trips from your regular day, so that's why I choose them.
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Yes, Guantánamo Bay, known for orange jumpsuits and abuse of detainees, has school field trips.
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All the expeditions are intended to be hands-on, with two full-day field trips.
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By the time Karin was in school, that meant field trips to Verdun and Dachau.
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"The field trips are the most special, because you meet incredible kids and survivors," Chopra says.
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That why she often live streams on Periscope, broadcasting field trips and interviewing other scientists live.
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They also took a lot of field trips, including a boat trip down the Seine River.
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Plus, "we don't go overboard when there's the big study abroad, expensive field trips," he says.
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The group also hopes to eventually offer "field trips" to other space stations or the moon.
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And it reminds us of the importance of permission slips for field trips to flooded caves.
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It has ordered her to stop developing Native-centered curriculums and taking students on field trips.
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Ms. Ponomarev served as a chaperone on Anna's field trips, while Sergey attended her choral concerts.
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Some visitors on this typically busy Saturday, like students on field trips, whizzed by the display.
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Serrano cites the Google Expeditions project, which lets teachers take their students on immersive virtual field trips.
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But the photo was also from Obama&aposs era and it&aposs a bus for field trips.
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They also take field trips like this one into the various departments of Disney's company including Imagineering.
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"Despite everything going on there, we always had field trips and our lunches were free," he said.
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Trips to the massage parlor, strip club field trips and drug use have all increased since October.
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"He would take his personal days off to take field trips to chaperone the kids," Siska says.
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But at school, snack time, field trips—there wasn't always a place I could wash my hands.
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When she was in high school, that had meant no parties, no overnight field trips, no boys.
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Toronto's schools have now joined other boards of education in ending field trips to the United States.
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I met with a guide who often hosted groups of Polish high-school students on field trips.
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She takes her students on several field trips each year, to museums, the aquarium and the zoo.
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Some schools came by on field trips to see me, and I didn't expect that at all.
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The new app is designed to work with Google Cardboard and Google's existing VR "field trips" app Expeditions.
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These entertaining "virtual field trips" are giving students an opportunity to interact with the subject material first-hand.
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He said the Vera field trips came at an all-time-high for public interest in prison issues.
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Field Trips At Twig, a plant studio in Brooklyn, one can learn about moss and its expansive possibilities.
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Field Trips The New York Botanical Garden is the temporary home of the largest gourd grown in 22.
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The highlight, though, will be a Google Expeditions Kit, which will enable them to take virtual field trips.
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There were "kiosk facilitators," and "wayfinding ambassadors" who roamed about assisting discombobulated museumgoers and groups on field trips.
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Its prime location in the center of Berlin made it popular with backpackers and students on field trips.
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Now, however, the Windsor area board of education has suspended all student field trips to the United States.
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Is Arnold still bitching and moaning about all the cool-ass shit he gets to do on field trips?
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These field trips are not just an opportunity to market to the senior community, but an opportunity to educate.
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We will be also leading them on field trips to other skateparks and skate communities in the West Bank.
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Here is New Jersey Senator Cory Booker describing his field trips to flyover country and research on actual Americans.
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On field trips, if the school bus rolled past Columbine High, their heads whipped around to monitor her reaction.
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Along with taking her furry friends on field trips, Benson keeps her pups happy by engaging them in conversation.
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They also have live-in managers who organise weekly events such as movie nights, cooking parties, and field trips.
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Then there are conferences, field trips, cocktail hours and retreats, whispering co-workers, rolling eyes and sadly shaking heads.
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Beyond board work, I have done field trips to Jordan and to Syria; hosted fund-raisers at my home.
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For more distant field trips, the hotel lends bikes and skateboards and also sells guidebooks to Brussels (14.90 euros).
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She wants them to be able to rent apartments, find work or go on field trips with their children.
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Charles runs the New York City Prepper's Network, hosting monthly gatherings and organizing field trips to teach survival skills.
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Additionally, Fiffer and Sperling are lining up field trips, workshops and demos to educate all levels of staff, equally.
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That money will fund thousands -- actually, tens of thousands -- of projects and experiences like field trips and science equipment.
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Were there textbooks, interactive lessons, videos, field trips or even a particular teaching style that helped you to learn?
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Going to protests and MOVE programs like the conference is viewed as part of MOVE children's educations, like field trips.
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"To his memory and every child who grew up going on field trips to the museum," one Facebook user wrote.
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MFA residencies in Boston/Cambridge comprise a rich immersion of critique, seminars, visiting artist talks, field trips, workshops, and exhibitions.
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Typical activities at a day care center include anything from medical care to pet therapy to center-wide field trips.
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These field trips helped give investors a deeper understanding of the industry and how Imira was trying to change it.
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Schools will serve breakfast and lunch, but all after-school activities, including sports, tutoring and field trips, are also canceled.
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There are no Amazon Prime orders or field trips to the mall if you run out of concealer or shampoo.
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Or, at least, quieter than they are during the school year when they're jam-packed with schools on field trips.
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In Bristol, Virginia, children go on field trips to local caverns and mines at part of the Summer Reading Program.
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Ms. Leong and Lieutenant Cleare plan to repeat the class this year, with more field trips and hands-on activities.
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MFA residencies in Boston/Cambridge comprise a rich immersion of critiques, seminars, visiting artist talks, field trips, workshops, and exhibitions.
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As flames raced downhill, villagers and teenagers on field trips in the area were evacuated to schools in nearby towns.
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Parents and teachers say they can see the difference through aging textbooks, staff shortages and fewer electives and field trips.
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Schools will serve breakfast and lunch, but all after-school activities, including sports, tutoring and field trips, have been canceled.
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At these centers, children are exposed to a range of activities and learning opportunities, which includes art and field trips.
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The students take classes and field trips to museums; they create art projects and enhance their vocabulary through word games.
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In recent years, elementary schoolteachers leading rite-of-passage field trips were among the most loyal visitors to the cyclorama.
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Residents will benefit from: Small groups will meet with mentors weekly for personalized studio visits, workshops, and tailored field trips.
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"It's an interesting finding that I think many research groups will likely discuss before planning their next field trips," she said.
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One pain point in particular – for school administrators, teachers and parents alike – is handling permission forms for activities and field trips.
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Enjoy a guest lecture by a prominent Cuban art critic and curator and field trips to unique cultural and historic locations.
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She was enthralled when teaching students about other faiths and taking them on field trips to mosques, temples and Buddhist centers.
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Also, we have a set budget that teachers can use for various needs (field trips, books, etc.) throughout the school year.
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I go on all of her field trips, and that would've been really hard with all of those tattoos on there.
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As a teacher, bucking common practice, he rejected corporal punishment, and took students on field trips, often to his treasured woods.
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Along with home-care demonstrations and respite care, the project sponsors field trips, overnight camps and other recreational and social activities.
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Curren$y: My mom used to chaperone our field trips when I was small—and then we'd go to Bud's Broiler.
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Regardless, we still have NASA (and in a roundabout way, Glenn) to thank for your favorite snack on school field trips.
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The courses provide approximately three hours of learning per day, including writing and research projects, virtual field trips, and geography challenges.
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Initially created as one-off field trips, the outings proved so successful that an eight-week program was introduced last spring.
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The company already hosts field trips for schools, and Mr. Pedersen is considering a commercial kitchen with cooking classes and demonstrations.
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Mr. Friedman has treated favored employees to after-work drinks, field trips to his beach house and top-tier concert tickets.
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He was my teacher, and he took us on field trips down to Los Angeles to see the scene down there.
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Dog hikers say that the field trips can have a profound effect on dogs' behavior, particularly those confined by cramped apartments.
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But in-school museum field trips are dropping off because of decreased educational funding and an increased emphasis on standardized testing.
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We see it each spring in Washington when student field trips descend and hundreds buy FBI T-shirts from street vendors.
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Outschool is a class marketplace for homeschoolers that offers classes and field trips for kids around topics like anatomy, space and photography.
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The Magic School Bus took some very important field trips this Earth Day, making stops at Marches for Science across the world.
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On the opening night, before three days of strategy sessions and team-building field trips, the staff gathered in the hotel courtyard.
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"The way humans have manipulated the landscape is surreal," he said, adding that he takes his architecture students there on field trips.
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It ensures that children attending school in districts that cannot pay for instruction in the arts still get field trips to museums.
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Last fall, Google unveiled Expeditions, a virtual reality system for classroom use that takes students on simulated field trips around the world.
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I was also a parent chaperone for many school outings and often times was the only dad along on these field trips.
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"It was a little nerve-racking," said Ms. Sanders, whose job often entails putting together reports and preparing for school field trips.
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For four decades, he lectured and conducted field trips for the natural history museum, where he became environmental educator emeritus in 2004.
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The coronavirus means field trips are canceled until further notice, but that doesn't mean you can't delight in seeing your favorite animals.
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Meanwhile, the travel nonprofit Road Scholar offers 180 dedicated Grandparent programs that are all heavy on field trips, performances and educational activities.
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Long gone are the days when she could stroll to the park with her family or take her students on field trips.
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In my 15 years as a professor at Evergreen State College, I led field trips to Panama and Ecuador that sometimes lasted months.
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Script is not the first company to address the challenges with school's paper forms, and in particular, those for activities and field trips.
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Finally, we'll spread out across Miami for breakout sessions and field trips, closing the Summit with an outdoor film series at SoundScape Park.
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In addition, it sends employees field trips it calls "Camp Grovo" to allow employees in the concrete jungle to get some fresh air.
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In addition to a music studio, there are field trips, counseling, vocational training and classes as part of a high school diploma program.
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They argue that the focus on testing has forced struggling schools to cut back on enriching programs like field trips and arts education.
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This Sweetwater felt less like the historical reenactment towns of fourth-grade field trips and more like a Wild West filter for Instagram.
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School student travel outside the District of Columbia also has been suspended through May 1, including out-of-state and international field trips.
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And administrators are hesitant to use them for out-of-town field trips, like one to the Bronx Zoo, about 16 miles away.
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The children have been participating in summer school and athletics, along with going on field trips and visiting friends, according to Ms. Luft.
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The children have been participating in summer school and athletics, along with going on field trips and visiting friends, according to Ms. Luft.
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Virtual reality (VR) is entering classrooms around the world and taking pupils on field trips to the most inaccessible corners of the planet.
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Not long afterward, he went to Grenoble, where he spent the next three years studying ice, making field trips to India every summer.
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It's a tool for teachers to take classes on virtual field trips to anywhere, that kind of the virtual reality version of it.
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" Mozzy also looks back on wilder days where capers were his best bet on a come up: "Taking field trips, bend a right.
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Check back for more updates on PEOPLE's puppy pal next week, when Murphy will start talking field trips to get used to new surroundings.
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It was part of a sponsored music series organized by Burger Records where a portion of ticket sales go to support school field trips.
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All my students have learned about the baby gorilla I named, and we took countless school field trips to the zoo to see Harambe.
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Except, instead of taking students on VR "field trips" teachers will be able to place 3D objects around their classrooms for students to explore.
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Faraji and I threw ourselves into the school, joining the parent-teacher association and the school's leadership team, attending assemblies and chaperoning field trips.
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So until the shutdown is over, there'll be no busloads of school kids going on field trips to the National Air and Space Museum.
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Somewhere between field trips to buy stamps at the grocery store and 5 PM tooth brushing, old people are having intercourse, just like you.
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Professor Zhang taught courses on primatology and ecology in the school's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, taking students on field trips to study monkeys.
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The camp also arranges field trips to museums, parks and bowling alleys, and incorporates mindfulness exercises into the daily schedule to emphasize mental health.
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For three hours everyday, the tutor would take them on field trips such as riding public transportation or buying tickets at the train station.
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She took her classes on European field trips and started an antiques business in the 1980s to cater to some of her wealthy students.
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I also organize field trips, such as to the Adler Planetarium, Millennium Park, the Art Institute and other museums dedicated to various ethnic groups.
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Christopher Takacs, who organizes field trips for the Audubon Society, lives nearby in Lyndhurst, and visits the park sometimes several times in a day.
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And so I actually work with a provost at Stanford to rethink our online education policy, and where I come in is field trips.
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An integral part of Christie's, students make full use of Christie's premises, as well as visiting public and private collections, and making international field trips.
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That evening at the United Nations took me back to the many children I have met on my numerous field trips with UNICEF across India.
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But the bus was used for educational field trips, and the picture was published on April 2016 -- about six months before Trump won the presidency.
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Since reopening in June, they've wasted no time, putting on shows in the theater, welcoming school field trips, and partnering with other artists and organizations.
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Early one morning I climb onto a coach bus familiar from childhood field trips for an eight-hour tour of Game of Thrones shooting locations.
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Contreras has also invested his own money in a sports medicine program and now takes his architecture students on field trips to Habitat for Humanity.
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I went there on school field trips when I was small, snuck out to metal shows there in high school, and went to college there.
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In 2012 the Contemporary Art Museum began offering art and food field trips to Tijuana, led by its education curator, Cristina Scorza, a Tijuana expert.
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In the summer, the organization took groups of young refugees on field trips, where Ms. Nuam San started to create a deeper sense of community.
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While a number of schools offer virtual reality "field trips" that let students see places they would likely never see otherwise, Ebeling's lab is rare.
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But most of all Mr. Trump likes when his staff plans field trips to rallies in red states, where he can campaign for president again.
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This can be combined with real-life field trips to help illustrate environmental destruction, for example by demonstrating changes to flora and fauna, Minocha explains.
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"We've had field trips before where we weren't able to go and the school gives us alternate education days," Ryan's mother, Shelly King, told CNN.
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I set initiatives for the leadership team — anywhere from switching to a new software to planning inspirational field trips — and create a framework to complete them.
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Children are taken on field trips and each one is provided a free legal consultation to help them understand their rights and responsibilities under U.S. law.
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A Canadian public school board has canceled field trips to the United States following President Trump's executive order temporarily barring visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Soto was accused of referring to undocumented parents as "illegals," removing them as PTA board members and blocking them from attending school field trips, KXAN reported.
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During a recent meeting about backup plans, I joked that we could get the students virtual reality headsets and conduct our London field trips that way.
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Field Trips Wave Hill, a private estate turned public garden in the Bronx, is an ideal place to paint, geek out on succulents or simply nap.
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All spring and summer, students are taken by bus to the museum for field trips intended to scare them into hating and fearing the United States.
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Tuition includes all books and materials, field trips, transportation to and from school activities, lunch, snacks, athletic uniforms, and educational technology such as the Apple products.
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As the chart shows, he picked three recording points, corresponding to field trips to the island, and analysed the proportions of bottles from various geographical sources.
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The company also still offers its popular field trips and science classes disguised as candy-making workshops for kids -- an endeavour Pete is keen to expand.
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In the past, that's made field trips hard, but as the state park field trip approached, Ryan's mom, Shelly King, didn't want her to miss out.
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In 63, a third of the clinic's patients were children, who are often taken on field trips to learn how to recognize and avoid stray ordnance.
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At the ORR facility, Sara said the kids were taken on field trips to Burger King or a park but had down time in the afternoon.
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"Unlike a lot of working mothers, I was still able to carve out time for parent-teacher conferences and school concerts and chaperoning field trips," says Parker.
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The program included field trips to cultural organizations and culminates in the students' curated work being installed in crates and displayed on the Floating Museum this month.
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I have a fund, and my big expenses like T-shirts for my honors group or field trips, things like that, are paid for by the parents.
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Trips to CompUSA were like field trips for Kirstein, and she remembers growing up tinkering with things, pressing buttons, and trying to figure out how they worked.
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Each episode followed a class of students embarking on a series of fantastic field trips with their zany teacher, Ms. Frizzle, who was voiced by Lily Tomlin.
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We try to plan interesting educational field trips and think of meaningful ways that we can engage with them to inject stability in their otherwise chaotic lifestyle.
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Schools help students keep up with the curriculum and even go on field trips when they are out of the classroom because of sickness or lengthy recovery.
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For instance, 2 million students have taken Google's VR "field trips" and there are 1 million Google FireBase developers, the search advertising company revealed at the conference.
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Generally, teachers can use Nearpod to create their own interactive lessons, virtual field trips and quizzes to be distributed live to students' mobile devices in the classroom.
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Children jumped into vans wearing backpacks with Spiderman and Hello Kitty characters, similar to scenes over the last several weeks when children were going on field trips.
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In addition to benefits that include mental-health care, Dig employees get flu shots, field trips to the company farm in Chester, N.Y., and personalized management coaching.
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Mr. Lewison, an assistant professor of marketing and management, walks his classes over to Adventureland for field trips, and works his amusement park expertise into his curriculum.
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When I was young, we used to go to the New York Botanical Garden on field trips, which back then seemed like a jaunt to the country.
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That is eased, she said, by a teaching and learning collaborative that links students from other islands through online book groups, field trips and in-person events.
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In the role, she addresses classes, organizes service projects, leads field trips to local mosques and started a service for Friday Prayers, known as jummah, on campus.
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While the Los Angeles museum is a popular destination for schoolchildren on field trips, the "Tools for Tolerance" classes it offers are a major draw for adults.
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In its nine months of probing the issue, the commission held four public listening sessions, conducted four field trips, and met with survivors of mass school shootings.
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In the research, teachers gave some students lessons on climate change, including classroom activities like mapping data and field trips to places experiencing degradation linked to global warming.
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This is only the latest in Google's string of educational programs, which range from promoting Chromebooks in the classroom to offering virtual reality field trips through Google Cardboard.
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Pups often find they receive extra pampering while out on these field trips, and in many cases come back with a forever family who is ready to adopt.
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For a look at the relationship some seniors have with weed, VICE visited a Seattle nursing home that takes its residents on field trips to a local dispensary.
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These gifts are the same hoodies they wore on field trips earlier this week—one a tour of a local news station, ABC 7 News, another of Facebook.
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Two years after bringing VR field trips into schools with its Expeditions program, the company is expanding the project to include a new type of lesson: augmented reality.
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Six live sessions, two field trips to San Francisco and New York as well as four Deep Dives into specific ecosystems are part of the package as well.
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Brooke: When I was very young, maybe six or seven, my mother would let me take her 110 camera to school with me, on field trips and such.
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This is what schoolchildren sometimes do on field trips to the War Memorial of Korea, built as a reminder of the costs of warfare on the Korean Peninsula.
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Mr. Edgar said that schools used to take annual field trips to the house, but since Pittsburgh and surrounding cities have been struggling financially, the trips have stopped.
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Over the course of the four-hour debate, Republican representatives drew comparisons between teenagers getting abortions to existing parental consent required for field trips and R-rated movies.
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On top of her studies at the University of Chicago, Ms. Piland has helped teach four undergraduate courses, holding office hours, leading field trips and planning discussion sections.
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My job involved caring for 12 children as they went to group therapy, ate dinner, went on field trips to museums and parks, and ran circles playing tag.
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Christie's Education is an integral part of Christie's, and students make full use of Christie's premises, as well as visiting public and private collections, and making international field trips.
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The purpose of Remind is to eliminate all of the back-and-forth paperwork that takes place when classes go on field trips, hold fundraisers and schedule school plays.
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JB: So we've been studying the effect of these immersive field trips in the lab and across a number of studies, I would say close to a dozen studies.
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The stables have been run since 1994 by the Federation of Black Cowboys, a group that promotes the history of blacks in the American West through school field trips.
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The video was created after kids voted for Buckingham Palace as the next virtual tour destination for Google Expeditions, a program that provides virtual-reality field trips for students.
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He became an icon in my school; he would bring cakes for parties, volunteer for field trips and bring presents for my teachers on the last day of school.
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He has already booked a number of school field trips to see the posters, photographs and small model of the NC-4 that he has installed in the gallery.
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And for many of those crystal-sellers — as well as hobbyists, amateur gem-hunters or even young students on geology field trips — that's where Gem-O-Rama comes in.
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This canvas tote is carried by 12-year-olds on field trips, by harried white-collar workers with their laptops, by the homeless and by many, many stylish people.
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On the same day of the federal warnings, Fairfax County schools canceled international field trips and short-term visits to countries where residents have fallen ill from the coronavirus.
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She teaches a graduate course at Columbia, called "American Spectacle," and takes her students on field trips: a Coney Island sideshow, a murder trial, a Times Square mega church.
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Last November, toward the end of Ella's year of treatment, PedsAcademy opened at the hospital, bringing virtual reality field trips, robots and math lessons that didn't feel like school.
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It was a place, I gathered, that they associated with school field trips, at an age when anyone dressed in breeches and a tricorn hat was straight-up embarrassing.
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Surprisingly, she cites John Dewey as an important influence on her thinking, and she champions hands-on science labs, frequent field trips, and long stretches of time for independent reading.
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I pick him up and we go on little field trips: to doctors' appointments, to get new eyeglasses, to get his hearing aids cleaned, or to our house for dinner.
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Mirah A. Horowitz, the shelter's executive director, estimated three to five adoptions each month are the direct result of a family taking a dog out through their "Field Trips" program.
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Alarmed by the impact of the Industrial Revolution on students' health, an elementary schoolteacher named Richard Shirrmann organized weekend field trips to the country with overnights in local school buildings.
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It plans to install water bottle stations and educational signage promoting the benefits of reducing the use of plastics and creating a waste-free lunch as part of field trips.
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Field trips and going to prom are expensive, and if they can get the money to buy their tickets then they can get the money they need to buy lunch.
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As public school budgets get tighter and teacher pay stagnates, a growing number of teachers are turning to crowdfunding sites to pay for everything from classroom supplies to field trips.
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GoTenna hopes the device will change the way people communicate during outdoor adventures, on field trips, or at large events or protests, when network service is otherwise bad or nonexistent.
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When he was younger, Gustavo remembers, he and his classmates would take school field trips to swim in the river, where guys had circle jerk sessions and fondled one another underwater.
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On Monday morning, a wild coyote was spotted trotting around the grounds of the Detroit Zoo shortly before several school field trips were set to arrive, reports the Detroit Free Press.
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Because I have a seven- and nine-year-old — both of whom reliably lose whatever money I give them for field trips and the like — I was curious to learn more.
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At Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium, a local favorite for children and school field trips, Cypress Rudloe, the executive director, took his muddy waders and stepped barefoot into a tank.
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Ms. Spielman has poked fun at schools for what she considers excessive risk aversion, describing as "simply barmy" measures like sending schoolchildren out on city field trips in high-visibility jackets.
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Their viability as service animals is tested through obstacle courses, exams and field trips, including one to the farm, where they must remain stoic and undistracted when faced with other animals.
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Tara tries to make sure they have clothes, food and field trips, which is no easy task when you are a single parent earning less than half the county's median income.
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Out of the trash and into the loving arms of shelter workers, these puppies have now had over two weeks of TLC, including vet visits, grooming sessions and foster home field trips.
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He wanted to make sure everyone is clear on a key point: New clothes, essential facilities, and field trips don't change the fact that we're witnessing child abuse on a grand scale.
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We attended field trips to see the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington and marched proudly in the Capital Pride Parade along with a host of other DC Public Schools students and staff.
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She also reflected on her adjustment to her life in Washington with her three small children, noting various field trips across the district, including one recent stop at a monster truck rally.
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An outdoors listing in the Connecticut Calendar in some editions on May 1 about bird club field trips in Milford misstated the telephone numbers for the New Haven Bird Club's tour guides.
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She was full of ideas for field trips for us — breakfast at IHOP one day, a trip on a public bus on another, to get a real look at class in America.
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Groups of South Korean schoolchildren have been a common sight, bused in for field trips as part of a program by the Ministry of Education to educate young Koreans about winter sports.
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A New Jersey school district is facing backlash after passing a new policy that bans students with $75 or more in lunch debt from attending field trips, prom and other extracurricular activities.
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Cole's non-profit, My Block My Hood My City, which he runs with only two full-time staff and no office space, takes teenagers from under-served communities on educational field trips.
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Instead, we were treated to some cool field trips: a demonstration of a canine unit, a simulated shoot/don't shoot course to test our reflexes, and a tour of the county jail.
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Read: Toronto Schools to Cease Field Trips to U.S. Chilling Last week, I told you about Mr. Smith's story about the Inuit who go under the Arctic sea ice to harvest mussels.
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"We were at first perplexed to witness these intriguing behavioural displays by male humpback dolphins, but as we undertook successive field trips over the years, the evidence mounted," said Allen in a statement.
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We sure don't remember being able to use Wikipedia as research in college... Hm, our only field trips were to the library in the middle of the night when our roommates sexiled us.
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Trump University's courses ranged from $1,495 three-day seminars to $35,000 "Gold" level programs that allowed for personal mentoring, real estate field trips and access to the expertise that made Trump a billionaire.
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Already, the company has been working to offer ways to virtually visit famous landmarks, natural and man-made wonders, and more through its "Expeditions" program, aimed at bringing virtual field trips to schools.
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With a few months still to go in the year, the survey documented $24,475 of spending, averaging almost $1,000 per person, on everything from books to field trips to class incentives to food.
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Lanciano Journal LANCIANO, Italy — For one week in August, a group of students in Lanciano, a hilltop town near the Adriatic Sea, sang songs, played music, danced, ate and went on field trips.
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During the club's field trips to the Perijá Mountains, he discovered the Tukuko mission, an imposing blue neocolonial building set amid deep green foothills, and decided to dedicate his life to its work.
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It was a best seller in its own time, and its 2016 travels provided the occasion for performances, workshops, lectures and student field trips in places as different as Vermillion, S.D.; Manhattan, Kan.
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Rather than being isolated on a military base, Harward and other Americans at that time lived among Iranians, rode local buses, and were exposed to Iran's attractions through field trips, his classmates said.
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From bus rides on middle school field trips to Netflix viewing parties for two on a laptop in college, the close proximity of connected ear buds helped create countless magical moments in my life.
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On domestic field trips in remote locations, my classes did field exercises and even, sometimes, endured lectures, but we also explored without explicit goals, cooked and shared meals, sat around campfires and told stories.
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Just northeast of the city proper, Tour-Ed's owners run field trips and tours during the warmer months, despite the fact that the mine's innards run a constant 50 degrees or so, year round.
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Some districts have even started sending debt collectors after families with past-due balances, while others exclude students who owe money on their lunch accounts from extracurricular activities like field trips and school dances.
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While his is not the highest-spending district in the state — several districts spend more than $25,000 per student — Fairfield parent associations raise money for field trips, white boards or boxes of school supplies.
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The Korea Foundation hosted curators from 26 countries, who traveled to South Korea to hear art experts, take field trips to cultural sites and learn technical information about Korean art and its proper display.
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"Our teachers are in the process of taking field trips each day to Oklahoma City ... taking groups of students each day not to lobby lawmakers, but just to view the legislative process," Beckham said.
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But today the company is taking a (slight) turn to monetization as it unveils Activities, a feature designed to let teachers collect payments from parents for school activities like field trips, sports uniforms, etc.
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The results of Stringfellow's research will be on view at LACE, alongside installments on KCET's Artbound, field trips, and other programming, to give participants a chance to explore this dynamic desert community for themselves.
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The Walker has recently ramped up its diversity education initiatives, going on staff field trips to sites of cultural significance to the Dakota people and beginning to formalize a process to get feedback earlier.
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The rule will be enforced at the principals' discretion, but also allows middle and high school students to be banned from extracurricular activities and going on field trips until the balance is paid off.
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At the children's experimental private school, run by a moderate Muslim social organization, Heru Tjahyono, the innovation director, described the interfaith activities he had designed, such as field trips to local churches and temples.
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The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum plans to install water bottle stations and educational signage promoting the benefits of reducing the use of plastics and creating a waste-free lunch as part of field trips.
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We took a lot of field trips to the British Museum, and each costume designer was given the task to come up with a mythology for one character, and each character was quite specific.
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In fact, Brown Johnson, EVP and Creative Director of Sesame Workshop, says that these "video field trips" will resemble the early days of Sesame Street, when viewers got a glimpse into happenings around the world.
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"The video field trips to farms and factories are reminiscent of classic Sesame Street, and Cookie Monster — an enduring favorite with fans of all ages—is the original food fanatic," said Johnson in a statement.
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"To that end, we strive each day to share the stories of each of our residents and facts about the species they represent with the public through our tours, field trips, events, and collaborative partnerships."
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But the policy now includes another penalty: It allows principals to block students who owe more than $75 from buying yearbooks or prom tickets, and from participating in nonacademic field trips and some extracurricular activities.
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Quinn provided BuzzFeed News with an email where she alleged that Walstein made innuendos about his students having sex on math-related field trips and in the shower of a new house he was building.
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And even if someone's wife or partner has her own job, the societal expectation is that she'll drop off and pick up the kids, take them to their doctor's appointments, and volunteer for field trips.
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From their first day in kindergarten, children are spoon-fed propaganda—from lectures about the legendary feats of Kim Il Sung to field trips to a museum that depicts, in gruesome detail, Americans massacring Koreans.
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Free and low-cost access meant my mother could sign permission slips for field trips and other outings, and my participation enriched my understanding of, and allowed me to feel myself a part of, culture.
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Woolfers in New York City began meeting in person, as Ms. Collins led field trips to Toys in Babeland, the sex accessories emporium on the Lower East Side, and hosted Scrabble tournaments and clothing swaps.
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Students in affluent towns often have access to a rich curriculum and a range of extracurricular activities, like debate teams and field trips to the State Legislature, that are beyond the reach of poorer schools.
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The field trips she and Mr. Best took their students, 5 to 12 years old, on several days a week — to the park, to the local bowling alley, to the pool — started feeling like dates.
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Skate World, sandwiched between Interstate 5 and the backside of Gateway Mall, carved out an unlikely sanctuary in the hearts of locals as a place for birthday parties, school field trips and other childhood loitering.
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" From home in Ohio last month, Mr. Heimbach described his visits to Europe as field trips that help him learn how to make the white nationalist movement in the United States a "real political force.
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The other day, Sachs's two young stars, Michael Barbieri (fourteen) and Theo Taplitz (thirteen), met up at the Brooklyn Museum, where the movie's final scenes, involving school field trips, had been shot a year earlier.
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Activist Antonio Arellano helped circulate a story that was published on April 29, 2016 – roughly six months before Trump won on Election Day – detailing special buses used for educational field trips by a Texas detention center.
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For example, I've initiated new field trips and volunteer opportunities in the community, traveled domestically and abroad with students, and participated in teacher fellowships through the National Writing Project and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Kate Brown also announced all gatherings of 250 or more people will be canceled -- as will nonessential school-related gatherings like parent meetings and field trips -- for four weeks in hopes of stemming the virus' spread.
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She was at the University of Cape Town and he was at the University of the Western Cape, but they had come under the auspices of the same program, and so had program field trips together.
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The children at Casa Padre are given two hours of outdoor activity time per day on the weekdays and three hours per day on the weekends, in addition to field trips to churches, parks and zoos.
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But President Trump's policies about who will be allowed to cross the border have Canadians so worried that school officials in and around Windsor have decided to suspend all student field trips to the American side.
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Netflix is ready to reboot The Magic School Bus, the classic kid-focused cartoon depicting far out field trips that probably made your grade school trips to the local pioneer village feel even more pedestrian by comparison.
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Although I was fortunate to have academic parents who actively educated me about Black history, I still felt the impact of the omission and dilution of these stories in school, on field trips, and in the media.
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Greve said middle schools and high schools from the US, Canada and even Bahrain want to send their children on field trips to places like the the Acropolis of Athens, and VR makes that cheaper than ever.
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Google has been taking advantage of things like VR field trips and virtual reality to transport students to distant lands, but today it's releasing a way to explore scenic wonders closer to home: the U.S. National Parks.
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Barriers like a lack of nearby parks and open spaces, transportation costs, school budget cuts for field trips, and a history of feeling unwelcome in some of our national parks all contribute to a disconnection from nature.
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While it previously offered summer programs like Apple Camp and on-demand sessions called Field Trips (which are booked by teachers), it will now host a weekly Kids Hour which is meant to bring parents and kids together.
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The network has said that the contract would allow the city to significantly interfere with its program by giving the city's Education Department authority over the curriculum, schedule and even the number of field trips it could take.
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The app could also include transactional features that enable parents to pay schools via their phones for things like field trips, lunches or supplies, which they now pay for with cash or checks tucked into a kids' backpack.
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"I probably went there on a couple of field trips, but I can't say I have the same sort of experiences as I've had at Mass MoCA," referring to the enormous contemporary art center in nearby North Adams.
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And though the pass is only for public school students in grades K-12, it grants children an opportunity that would otherwise be infrequent (field trips to the PAMM happen, of course, but now students can go any day).
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The group works with more than 75 public schools across all five New York City boroughs, and students take field trips out to reef sites or research station to learn how to measure water quality and track oyster growth.
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" She said that Shirr, a fourth grader, loved field trips to the beach at Coney Island and that her strongest memory of the child was her "doing somersaults all in a row from the boardwalk to the beach shore.
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They include proximity to public green spaces, costs of transportation, school budget cuts for field trips, busy schedules, a general lack of interest, and historical or cultural barriers that prevent some communities from feeling welcome in America's great outdoors.
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According to Babble, the streaming service will be rebooting The Magic School Bus, the beloved PBS cartoon that took many a millennial on animated field trips through the human body, deep inside volcanos, and to the outer reaches of space.
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Tucked into the apple-growing hills of Western Massachusetts is the Harvard Forest, a 2200,20143-acre wooded preserve that hosts school kids on field trips, day-tripping hikers, and, for more than a quarter century, a highly unusual science experiment.
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SAN FRANCISCO — From locker rooms and sex education classes to dress codes and overnight field trips, many U.S. public schools already are balancing the civil rights of transgender students with any concerns that classmates, parents and community members might have.
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Chicago's new guidelines allow students to participate in school programs including overnight field trips and physical and sexual health classes that correspond to their gender identities and to dress and be addressed in a way that corresponds with their identities.
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The idea that VR can help transport viewers to far-off lands is not a new one — Google offers an "Expeditions" app for classrooms that lets teachers guide students on virtual field trips to destinations around the world, for example.
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When he addressed the crisis last week, the prime minister called for only modest action, urging those with symptoms of the virus to stay at home, advising elderly people to avoid cruises and asking schools to halt field trips abroad.
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"We were at first perplexed to witness these intriguing behavioural displays by male humpback dolphins, but as we undertook successive field trips over the years, the evidence mounted," Simon Allen from the University of Western Australia said in a statement.
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As the Trump administration expands the number of people detained at the border, shelters and detention facilities are ramping up their roles as makeshift schools, teaching English and civics classes, offering cooking lessons and setting up field trips to art museums.
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On art museum field trips we would stand in front of a giant painting of a black square with another slightly less dark black square inside of it, and you spend two seconds in front of it and you start walking away.
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Students can see places before they became ruins, or they can take impossible field trips, like to the deck of the Titanic en route to the US. TimeLooper, meanwhile, uses costumed actors on a green screen and builds environments onto that green screen.
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However, in September the lunch policy expanded: But the policy now includes another penalty: It allows principals to block students who owe more than $75 from buying yearbooks or prom tickets, and from participating in nonacademic field trips and some extracurricular activities.
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Among the hardship measures being implemented, according to recent school surveys: bigger class sizes, teacher pay cuts and hiring freezes, cutbacks in arts, athletics and foreign language instruction, fewer offerings for special needs and gifted students, and a moratorium on field trips.
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If you visit the homepage of GoFundMe, you'll see crowdfunding campaigns to help raise money for suffering people to pay for their hospital bills, for underprivileged schools send their students on field trips, or to help give relief to the famine in Somalia.
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NYC & Company also worked during 2017 to add city-to-city partnerships with Cape Town, Tokyo and Toronto, where the school system had stopped planning field trips to the United States amid concerns that some students were being turned away at the border.
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Nevertheless, every day Josh would go out of his way to sit next to me in treatment, during free time, even on field trips (forgoing his anti-nausea seat in the front of the bus to sit with me in the back).
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"I try not to miss the important stuff, but wish I had time to do little things like field trips and spontaneous activities," said Clint Greenleaf, founder and CEO of Content Capital and father to three children, ages 8, 10 and 12.
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Toronto schools have stopped planning field trips to the United States, citing concerns that some students may be turned away at the border in the wake of President Trump's latest travel ban and the American immigration authorities' newly implemented "extreme vetting" procedures.
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I already knew that other moms were at the core of my day-to-day-parenting survival, organizing summer camp carpools and Friday night dinner clubs, tucking my girls' wayward tendrils into backstage headbands and shepherding them onto the metro on chaperoned field trips.
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For example, in Ohio, initiatives such as the Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Programs provide children with after-school and summer programs that include tutoring, field trips and other activities that promote self-esteem and positive social relationships, while delivering drug prevention services.
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Field trips and even birthday celebrations affected Caitlyn Davis had made several calls trying to get church leaders to lend her a bus to take the girls she mentors to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington on the MLK holiday.
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Gizmodo heard stories of non-NASA scientists filling in to give presentations on behalf of multiple absent speakers; canceled field trips to NASA experiments like the SOFIA telescope, a retrofitted Boeing 747 that functions as an airborne observatory; and a general cloud over the conference.
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Google is expanding its Expeditions program, the company's effort to bring virtual reality-based field trips to the classroom, with the launch of a dedicated Android application for schools and educators who want to take their students on virtual adventures by way of mobile devices.
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But then Zach Rawling, a millionaire builder who lives nearby, stepped in to save the house, hoping to turn the property into an educational and events center that could be a site for lectures, chamber music performances, school field trips and the occasional wedding.
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Amount budgeted for "Kids" in May 2016: $500Percentage of budget accounted for: 6%At the time, Andy and Nicole's children were under the age of six, so the monthly budget had to include things like baby supplies and timely activities like camps and field trips.
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For instance, plan field trips to colleges to observe a class that some students are planning to take, take more pride is work-based learning, teach seniors more real world stuff and not how to find the x, y, and z axis of a graph.
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They're part of an intensive performance poetry apprenticeship called Bomb Squad, a roster of young poets who, through YCA, participate in writing workshops, field trips, and seminars with the purpose of producing a portfolio of new work and gaining exposure in becoming professional poets and teaching artists.
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Barranco: Yeah, I remember specifically upgrading from my CD player that I, like, hand-decorated with rhinestones in, like, third grade and listened to the "SpongeBob SquarePants" movie soundtrack on, but I remember all the cool kids on the bus on field trips had iPod Touches.
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Since she had by then learned to trust her own instincts as much as those of her co-author (and became saucy enough to call her "La Super-Française" behind her back), those recipes were painstakingly developed here, with field trips around France to consult bakers, professors and chemists.
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According to a course syllabus provided to Motherboard by Benjamin Haller, an alum who edited the independent NYU Shanghai student publication On Century Avenue at the time, the civic education class involved field trips to Longhua Memorial Cemetary and the Shanghai War Memorial, both of which commemorate communist martyrs.
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In a speech and a lengthy news conference that followed, Mr. Johnson and his health and science advisers said the government is asking people with flu-like symptoms to stay at home for seven days and calling on elderly people to avoid cruises and schools to cancel field trips abroad.
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"Even as our kids have gone without field trips or art in the classroom, the conversations we have as a family about justice and inequality, about how the world works and our place in it, have been critical in our kids' development," Ms. Everts Mykytyn wrote in The Hollywood Reporter.
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Comparing relative importance is certainly possible; I think arts education is wonderful and important, but few would dispute that, say, funding field trips to art museums for rich US boarding school students is less important than making sure kids in extremely poor countries like Burundi, Afghanistan, or Haiti get quality instruction in math and reading.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out that when you stick a bunch of Broadway stars in a car and ask them to sing show tunes, the result is one of those school field trips where the theater kids sit in the back of the bus and sing their way through the entire score to Rent.
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Some typical administrative requirements they face include: keeping a log of when kids check in and leave with a physical signature from the parent or guardian dropping off the child, annotating how kids are developing, and sending notes home to parents around payments, vacation days, field trips, or supplies that their kids will need.
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Also getting shout-outs in this category were "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," the 1978 best seller about a town where food falls from the sky; and "The Magic School Bus" series, which has been described as a string of educational field trips from the ocean floor to the eye of a hurricane.
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After a day on the slopes, the BC<3t2 (Beaver Creek Loves Teens Too) program in Colorado kicks into gear (during the winter and spring seasons) with field trips in and around the resort: tubing at Vail's Adventure Ridge, guided twilight snowshoeing, a class for ski and snowboard flips and stunts at the Anti-Gravity Center in nearby Edwards.
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As schools budget for field trips to Washington, D.C., more educational institutions need to allocate resources for study trips to appropriate museums and historical destinations such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., Holocaust memorials and museums in other states and, if overseas trips are possible, former Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen.
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I was lucky enough to attend a Montessori-type arts focused school from kindergarten through sixth grade, where we took every test to classical music, and arts classes were a daily occurrence — field trips were to the opera and museums, and our extracurricular activities were the school musical production, literary arts, and participating in cooking and creative projects.
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"I started my business career as a teenager and my family ruled with an iron fist," Lemonis tells CNBC Make It.Lemonis' family put him to work at the family business at a young age, often at the expense of typical teen activities like going to summer camp, playing Little League Baseball or even going on school field trips, he says.
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But whereas Lomas and Tracey went out on short field trips and focused on recording the best examples of sound and song within the communities they researched, Sarno—who never trained as an anthropologist or musicologist—is more comparable to a soundscape artist, who immerses himself in a new environment, capturing the broader environmental soundscape as well as individual songs and sounds.
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"I started my business career as a teenager and my family ruled with an iron fist," Lemonis tells CNBC Make It. Lemonis' family put him to work at the family business at a young age, often at the expense of typical teen activities like going to summer camp, playing Little League Baseball or even going on school field trips, he says.
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Moreover, she began working to encourage restaurants and supermarkets to serve or carry these vegetables; she and her students took field trips to help farmers grow them; and she helped to develop and publish recipes to make them more appealing and approachable, since preparation for some of the greens can be rather involved, and some traditional cooking knowledge had become less widespread as the vegetables' popularity declined.
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There are more than a dozen options, such as a lesson with the property's executive chef, Warren Rowe, on the fundamentals of Jamaican cooking, workshops on Caribbean drumming and dancing, a Bob Marley portrait painting class, field trips to local food purveyors and a visit to a school part of the Rockhouse Foundation, a nonprofit that Mr. Salmon founded to support education in Jamaica.
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The Zoological Society's purist vision for the zoo, riding the wave of the post-Enlightenment passion for collecting and classifying species, would transform by the end of the 19th century into something like the kind of zoo we know today — a staple of school field trips, a boon for desperate parents, a chance for city people to look a wild animal in the eye.
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Pokémon Go has taken advantage of AR novelty to turn (many) quick bucks, but when the fad passes, companies like Doppler Labs will allow real-time coaching, Skyfit will make personal training affordable, kids will take amazing field trips with Nearpod and somebody will come up with an Oculus/Vive killer app to justify the purchase: think virtual teleportation to those courtside seats or the front row of that concert. Applets.
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In the classroom, she teaches her students about conflicts in Vietnam, Ethiopia, the Middle East and Central America—regions that all have a large diaspora in Washington, DC. The students then go on field trips to restaurants serving the cuisines of these places, where they dine together and listen to the owners of the eateries talk about their homelands, their cultures, and how war has impacted their nations.
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Many minorities of a certain age and place, kids who grew up before the possibility of a black president, were bused up Route 295 to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on elementary-school field trips, treated to speeches by a renowned neurosurgeon and taught that if they went to class, kept their heads in books and got good grades, they, too, could one day be like Ben Carson.
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The Google Earth Voyager updates were announced today along with other new educational tools, including a collection of STEM tools for Chromebooks (Dremel 3D40 3D Printer and littleBits Code Kit) which schools can purchase as a discounted bundle, as well as a self-guided mode in the Expeditions app for Cardboard and Daydream that will allow students and teachers to pick any of the over 600 virtual field trips the app offers on their own.
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Enjoy a guest lecture by a prominent Cuban art critic and curator and field trips to unique cultural and historic locations including: a visit to the Akokán Community Project (an Afrocuban religon's market,) a day trip to Las Terrazas with a visit to the Sierra del Rosario Biosphere and Soroa Orchid Botanical Garden, a tour of San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, a visit to Camara Oscura—offering panoramic views of Old Havana, to name a view.
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That's why your intuitions about, I don't want to wear this thing for eight hours a day and it's pretty clunky, is why I think in the short term, for the next year or so, we're really gonna see flourishing centers where one goes to do VR for various reasons, whether it's training athletes or whether it's learning about field trips or science, or whether it's about just some fun stuff, like becoming a hockey goalie.
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Together, the pair scour Salvation Army stores to find old camping equipment to use in their first lab, take students on some hilariously awful field trips, burrow through rotting leaves in the Canadian Arctic, and trek through Ireland ( a place "so saturated with green that it is the things that are not green that catch one's eye"), carefully gathering more than 1,000 moss samples that will be cavalierly dumped in the garbage by an airport security officer.
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Today, the company says that number has grown to 500,000 worldwide, as the program has since expanded to countries outside the U.S. Google's virtual field trips are one of the better use cases for VR technology, as they allow students to experience parts of the world they may never otherwise have the chance to visit – whether that's the ancient ruins (like those at Machu Picchu), natural wonders like canyons or rainforests, or far-off cities or regions, like Antarctica.
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Enjoy a guest lecture by a prominent Cuban art critic and curator and field trips to unique cultural and historic locations including: a visit to the Akokán Community Project (an Afro-Cuban market,) a day trip to Las Terrazas with a visit to the Sierra del Rosario Biosphere and Soroa Orchid Botanical Garden, a tour of San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, a visit to Camara Oscura—offering panoramic views of Old Havana, to name a view.
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