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Field Trip!

In addition to all the other great things in Vienna, we are very fortunate to have a great museum that has some amazing artifacts chronicling the long military history of Austria. 

Thomas Gardner (10th grade history teacher) and I took the 10th graders to this museum as they have been learning about WWI recently in both History and English. They recently took their unit test in history and in my English class, we are about halfway through All Quiet on the Western Front. 

a group of students getting talked to...
they weren't in trouble...but I didn't know that when I snapped the pic
Walking through a park to get to the museum

The entire 10th grade class (minus 2) in front of the museum

waiting to go in...

Gardner collecting the money

fun with cannons

fun with artillery shells

checking out a recon plane
This is the car that Franz Ferdinand was riding in when he was assassinated

head in a bunker

my tour group in a bunker that survived a direct hit.
Sadly, the soldiers inside did not

listening attentively

getting on the strassenbahn...going back to school

Gardner listening to a student's music on the ubahn




Comments

  1. leslie.kiddMarch 29, 2011 at 4:20 PM

    so what were the authorities asking your students?!

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  2. Michael, Rebecca, Justin, and Kailyn JohnstoneMarch 29, 2011 at 6:01 PM

    they didn't know...they just kept smiling, nodding, and laughing nervously.

    ReplyDelete

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