Craters of the Moon

On Monday the team I work on at Madison Middle School took a field trip to Craters of the Moon. For those of you who don't know, that is about 2 hours southwest of Rexburg. It had lava, spatter cones, mountains, some trees, animals, and caves. It was pretty cool. I had the students do this little booklet for Social Studies and then for Language Arts they had to write a personal narrative about their experience on the field trip. It was fun, but very exhausting being with 90 11/12 year olds for over 8 hours. On the bus they were singing "99 bottles of pop on the wall," and singing songs, it was pretty entertaining, but Alejandro (he went on the field trip) wanted to kill some of them because they were being so annoying. All in all, it was a fun and informative trip!



By one of the openings of the cave. Again, it was hecka windy that day.


Ale in the caves


Going inside the Indian caves


The students eating lunch inside the bottom part of the bus. There wasn't enough shade, so they were climbing in here. It was funny!


A tree that was still in the ground, but the root system was all above ground. Miss Dick told us about this one. And yes, that is actually her name (she never married).


Another cool tree


There were a bunch of tree roots everywhere and they were really cool. This was one of them. Some of my students were in the background


Me on the hike. I had dirt all over my face because of the wind!


This was a huge hole where the lava had given away. We went on a 2 mile hike around it. It was way cool--and there was only one tree in the middle of it.


By the spatter cones. It was this really cool mountain/volcanoe thing. Hey, I'm an English major, not a science lady


Alejandro


In front of some pahoehoe (a type of lava)