It is a language arts curriculum unit with a career exploration component.
Students share interviews in the classroom following the field trip.
Teacher contacts the nursing facility to predetermine field trip date and which residents will be interviewed. Supplies include card stock, markers, stampers, embossing supplies, and craft items to make creative cards. Students will research the kinds of support staff necessary to run a nursing home. include delivery people, maintenance for building records as well as facility personnel. Students will determine interview topics and questions. Students will sucessfully demonstrate interviewing techniques in the classroom and at the site.