Field Trips
826 New Orleans invites classes from local schools to come to our center for a few hours of fun and engaging writing.
Our Field Trips offer a safe, creative, and nurturing space for students, where both imaginative learning and standards-based skill reinforcement take place. The support of our capable community of staff and volunteers enables both highly collaborative and individualized learning. In a few short hours, students brainstorm, write, and edit their work. They leave with something tangible- a bound book or other media- and a renewed confidence in their ability to read, write, and inspire.
Storytelling and Bookmaking
Recommended for Grades 1-5
The class collaborates to produce a story with characters, setting, and plot, all the way up to a cliffhanger—at which point students must finish the story on their own. Everyone leaves with a bound, illustrated book to take home.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Recommended for Grades 5-8
The Choose Your Own Adventure Field Trip is an action-packed thriller. Students begin writing a story as a group, but stop when a decision has to be made. At that point, the class splits to write different branches of the story. As more decisions present themselves and storylines end, the groups re-split and re-merge. Every student ends the field trip by individually finishing the last unresolved story branches, and they all take home a copy of the adventure.
Ms. Lexicon and Mr. Jargon – Vocabulary Stories
Recommended for Grades 6-12
Studies show that activities that provide students with opportunities to work frequently with words and concepts and connect them to other words and concepts result in more sustained learning. In this field trip, students will bring vocabulary words to life by creating characters and stories based upon them. Imagine a “Mr. Combustible” who ignites everything he touches. Students leave with a book of everyone’s vocabulary stories. We can provide word lists for each grade level, but welcome teachers bringing their own words and definitions to support the learning happening in their classrooms.
