{"id":6846,"date":"2012-05-01T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2012-07-18T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:26:08","slug":"after-fcat-testing-comes-field-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/01\/after-fcat-testing-comes-field-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"After FCAT Testing Comes Field Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6899\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/01\/after-fcat-testing-comes-field-trips\/buses-at-staidum\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6899\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6899\" title=\"Buses at staidum\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Buses-at-staidum-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Buses-at-staidum-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Buses-at-staidum-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Anthony Cave \/ WLRN-Miami herald<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">School buses line up outside of Marlins Park in Little Havana on April 30, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This post was written by WLRN reporter Anthony Cave.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/fcat\/\">FCAT testing season<\/a> is over. And students say schools are rounding out the school year with a little fun.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Semon, an eighth-grader at North Miami Middle school says, \u201call we have is field trips left and that&#8217;s about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Semon and almost 13,000 other students across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties participated in an educational field trip to a Miami Marlins baseball game.<\/p>\n<p>The game against the Arizona Diamondbacks started at 12:40 p.m. yesterday, allowing schools time to watch the game and return before the bell.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Students got to the stadium early to get a lesson on basic weather terms taught by CBS Miami\u2019s weather team.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a little show and tell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mods.org\/\">Ft. Lauderdale\u2019s Museum of Discovery and Science<\/a> brought a tortoise, alligator and python (No, they didn\u2019t race) for a discussion about the Everglades\u2019 inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>The event known as <a href=\"http:\/\/briefings.dadeschools.net\/files\/92322_Weather_Day_Packet_-_2012.pdf\">Weather Day<\/a> has been held since 2007 between CBS4, the Miami Marlins, the National Weather Service and the Museum of Discovery and Science.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fun, North Miami Middle school Spanish teacher Carina Torralba says she plans to create a lesson plan out of the sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can associate everything with sports,\u201d Torralba said. \u201cWe can relate that to health and if it is good or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torralba said 90 of the school&#8217;s best students attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just the kids who deserved this according to behavior,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is just a nice experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although school does not end until June 7, Semon said he has at least three upcoming field trips including an eighth-grade picnic and a trip to Tampa\u2019s Busch Gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: This post was written by WLRN reporter Anthony Cave. The FCAT testing season is over. And students say schools are rounding out the school year with a little fun. Spencer Semon, an eighth-grader at North Miami Middle school says, \u201call we have is field trips left and that&#8217;s about it.\u201d Semon and almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1019,383,1006],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}