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| Date |
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| September, 2001 |
The class designs the logo
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| January, 2002 |
A classroom library of railroad books is started
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| January 17, 2002 |
First classroom presentation: A Brief History of Railroading in the U.S.
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| January 22, 2002 |
Railroading Vocabulary: Part One
Pacific Coast Railway
Distribute name tags
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| January 25, 2002 |
Field trip (our trip) to the Santa Maria Valley Railway Historical Museum (their web site)
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| January 28, 2002 |
Railroading Vocabulary: Part Two
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| February 2-24, 2002 |
This class was "off track" (year-round scheduling)
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| February 25, 2002 |
Railroading Vocabulary: Part Three
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| March 1, 2002 |
Santa Maria Valley: Historical Overview
The HO model arrives in the classroom
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| March 4, 2002 |
First day that the Train Layout (HO) is in the classroom: platform handling and etiquette (how to handle rolling stock, throw switches and toggles, throttles, "5-finger crane" usage, etc.)
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| March 5, 2002 |
Ground texturizing on the Train Layout (HO)
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| March 6, 2002 |
"Imperial Valley Sugar Beet Trains: The Ending of an Era" (Video Rails #VR074). Viewed portions related to harvesting and getting the beets into the railroad cars at the Imperial Valley end.
Ground texturizing continues on the Train Layout (HO).
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| March 7, 2002 |
Ground texturizing and roads are completed on the Train Layout (HO)
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| March 8, 2002 |
"Imperial Valley Sugar Beet Trains: The Ending of an Era" (Video Rails #VR074). Viewed the last portions covering the arrival of the Southern Pacific unit train in Guadalupe to the SMVRR taking the sugar beet railroad cars to the mill, emptying them on the highline, and finally the mill processing itself.
Buildings/structures finishing begins on the Train Layout (HO).
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| March 11-13, 2002 |
Directed drawing activity to create 3-D background images for both sides of the platform based on historic buildings about which the students have been reading and hearing. Each student will do a different building or structure, and the backgrounds will be rotated on and off the platform (the platform can accommodate about 8-10 at a time mounted on the white divider board between the two halves of the HO layout).
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| March 14, 2002 |
Field Trip (our trip): Santa Maria Valley Historical Society Museum (their web site).
Field Trip (our trip): Santa Maria Valley Railroad Yard and Enginehouse (their web site).
Work on the structures continues.
The sugar beet plants are a couple inches tall at 7 days old.
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| March 18, 2002 |
Santa Maria Valley Railroad - moving goods: sugar beets, cattle feed, oil, produce, servicemen, and more...
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| March 19, 2002 |
Realia "show and tell" (from the Foster collection). Students labeled the items as we discussed them in preparation for the Open House.
Mr. Peterson (from the railroad museum) shared railroad sounds.
How to Read a Railroad Switch (PDF student worksheet, 46Kb). You'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files. It's free.
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| March 22, 2002 |
Layout work: removal of blue tape, and work on the enginehouse windows and roof.
Complete Thank You notes to the SMVRR and the Historical Museum.
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| March 25, 2002 |
Interview at KCOY TV-12.
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| March 26, 2002 |
Heavy focus on operations practice, including use of the layout diagram. With a couple days to go, all but two students are 100% finished with their reports!
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| March 27, 2002 |
More HO railroading operations practice.
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| March 28, 2002 |
Dress rehearsal for tomorrow's Open House. This was a show-and-tell for four other visiting classes.
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| March 29, 2002 |
AASRR Open House for parents and guests. Students will present their Final Reports. Topics chosen include: the railroads of the valley, the Chumash, train signals, the first school, fire!, Hart House, steam locomotives, Capt. Hancock, the high school, sugar beets, and mule/horse teams.
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