This has become an annual highlight of the second grade curriculum. Third graders takes a city tour , using the downtown tunnel system as a social studies discovery lesson. The students use maps to explore the tunnels and find their way to appointed stops that lead them to a final rendezvous spot. Fourth Graders visit Goliad and the fifth graders' culminating field study is to the state capital in Austin, Texas in May. This has become a Travis tradition eagerly anticipated by the students.
Teachers develop and ancillary teachers supervise centers and stations around the park.
Classes rotate around these stations during the day. Parents are involved as chaperones and aides in the centers. The closing ceremony, presented by our graduating 5th graders to the gathered student body at the end of the day, has become a moving and uplifting tradition. Fifth grade students experience 3 days of art appreciation at the Museum of Fine Arts and art instruction at this prestigious art school. They create fantastic products which are displayed in the halls upon their return.