Ongoing: Road Trip Across The United States of America

Students will learn the key facts as we take a road trip across The United States of America. Each week we will discover the capital, special landmarks, fun facts, and other interesting and important information in the current state we are in. 

This class is designed for students to enter the class at any point in the ongoing status because each week will be a new state. Students will receive information prior to class on which state we will be traveling into. Each student can then research information they find interesting and/or important to bring to class. 

EACH CLASS SECTION  IS ON A DIFFERENT STATE EACH WEEK. WE ARE VISITING EACH STATE IN ORDER OF STATEHOOD. If the number of classes in the section say, for example "4th meeting of 52", then we are on the 4th state (Georgia) or close to this. There is no worry about states students may have missed prior to enrollment as this class never ends. Once we finish with Hawaii (the last state), the very next week, we go back to Delaware (the first state). With this being said, we do add the nation's capital into the order, as well. 

The order of states, typically, follows: 
     1st meeting: Delaware
     2nd meeting: Pennsylvania
     3rd meeting: New Jersey
     4th meeting: Georgia
     5th meeting: Connecticut
     6th meeting: Massachusetts
     7th meeting: Maryland
     8th meeting: Washington DC
     9th meeting: South Carolina
     10th meeting: New Hampshire
     11th meeting: Virginia
     12th meeting: New York
     13th meeting: North Carolina
     14th meeting: Rhode Island
     15th meeting: Vermont
     16th meeting: Kentucky
     17th meeting: Tennessee
     18th meeting: Ohio
     19th meeting: Louisiana
     20th meeting: Indiana
     21st meeting: Mississippi
     22nd meeting: Illinois
     23rd meeting: Alabama
     24th meeting: Maine
     25th meeting: Missouri
     26th meeting: Arkansas
     27th meeting: Michigan
     28th meeting: Florida
     29th meeting: Texas
     30th meeting: Iowa
     31st meeting: Wisconsin
     32nd meeting: California
     33rd meeting: Minnesota
     34th meeting: Oregon
     35th meeting: Kansas
     36th meeting: West Virginia
     37th meeting: Nevada
     38th meeting: Nebraska
     39th meeting: Colorado
     40th meeting: North Dakota
     41st meeting: South Dakota
     42nd meeting: Montana
     43rd meeting: Washington
     44th meeting: Idaho
     45th meeting: Wyoming
     46th meeting: Utah
     47th meeting: Oklahoma
     48th meeting: New Mexico
     49th meeting: Arizona
     50th meeting: Alaska
     51st meeting: Hawaii
     Then I will create a new section starting back at #1 and transfer any current students to the new section. 

This class will be interactive as each student has the ability to discover information about a state and share the information with the other classmates. In fact, it is encouraged for each student to bring a discovery to class. When each student is allowed a voice, in addition to the teacher, the wealth of information can be great. This will be an exciting adventure. 

Each student will receive a picture of every completed state for their scrapbook. (the scrapbook can be created at home on an individual basis. There will be times throughout the ongoing class where student can show-off their individual scrapbooks. 

I like to be a hands-on-to-learning teacher. This class is not about the teacher. The students are the focus and will guide the course. The teacher is just the facilitator. For this class, there is no prior knowledge required to attend this class.