• FBCS Trip La Bahia

Teams

Schedule (tentative)

10:00 Depart

11:00 Arrive

  - Science observation

  - Walk, measure, draw scale, observe the exterior

  - Detail observations in rooms

  - Lunch

  - Back to school

Materials

• pencils
• Gird paper
• compass
• string
• Water
• camera
• Knowledge of sketching/drawing to scale

General Comments/Ideas

• We are doing something many students will never do. You can always play around. But you cannot always have this type of educational experience.
• When in teams be certain that one person does not do everything. Share the responsibilities.
• Work together as a team, Keep your eyes open as a team, team members may combine observations.
• Most activities are team activities. Collect information by team.
• As you observe try to put yourself in the place of someone who was in La Bahia.  
• All answers involving measurements need to be in standard and metric measurements
• Read the captions for collecting details.
• One of your tasks after we collect data will be to build a simple replica of the La Bahia  
• Grade: You will receive a grade for trip as well as the follow-up assignments at school.
• You cannot collect every piece of information. You MUST be selective.
• We are to there to have an educational time...NOT A FUN TIME...

Rules

• No Electronic Games
• No movies
• Be overly polite to everyone. Say thank you.
• No Running from place to place
• Listen when instructions are given.
• Stay with your team
• Always stay in sight of a chaperon
• Take turns
• No cutting in line
• Look with your eyes, not your hands
• Pick up your trash
• Share the window seats of the vehicles
• Continuously record
• Seat Belts
• No horse-play
• REMEMBER, you can lose your privilege to go on the next outing, if your behavior is out-of-line

Trip Recorder

• One student will keep a record of what we do on our trip for historical purposes.

Odometer and calculations

• Map route using grid
• Put a box around the mile entries
• RECORD mileage points: Beeville, Bee County Line, Berclair, San Antonio River, red light in Goliad, and La Bahia
• CALCULATE gas consumption at 20 mpg (miles per gallon) and 30 mph
• CALCULATE average consumption

Lunch Menu

• CALCULATE
  • Total cost for meal for all students
  • Average amount spend by students
  • Each student's change, if they give the clerk $10 and $15.

Out door observations (do individually)

• Each student assigned an observation area
• Use grid to locate what is found.
• List all plants, animals, insects, rocks, etc
• Provide specific details about your observations
  • Color
  • Size
  • Number observed
  • Measurements (standard and metric)
  • Draw/sketch on plant, animal, or insect you observed
• List the Nine Flags

Inside La Bahia observation

• Teams assigned area to observe
• Use grid paper
• Provide specific details
  • Size
  • Construction materials
  • Type of walls, floors, doors
  • What is in room
• Observer the scale model. Not you will be making a much simpler model

Outside Observations "the wall"

• Use grid paper
• Length, width, height of walls
• Use both of the methods to determine height
  • Using Y=(distance to wall)Tan(angle)
  • Height of know object + Height of know object + height of know object + ...
• List details
• Construction material

Weather observation

• In Beeville and at Bahia both going and returning
• Temperature, clouds, precipitation, barometric pressure, wind (speed direction)

Scavenger Hunt on US 59 ONLY

• Mark on your Route map
• Put a circle around the number from you legend
• You must indicate the location and some details
• Name 2 ranches
• How far to old metal rail road bridge
• Name any historical markers: Where, What is it about?
• Places to find food?
• Average gas price at the red light in Goliad (59 @ 77) 
• Not counting "fast food" restaurants, after leaving Beeville could we buy food
• Providing details (miles from Beeville etc) did you observe any cows, sheep, horses, vultures, rabbits, snakes,
• Churches
• Airports
• Creeks
• Rivers

Biographical information on individuals associated with La Bahia's history

• Each student will do a different individual
• Name of person to collect information ___________________________

Tools

• Describe in detail any three (3) tools
• Keep in mind that you may need to write about what if must have been like to use the tools.

Historical Questions to answer

Answer in complete sentences restating the WHOLE question.

Teachers Guide For Field Trips To Presidio La Bahia
from La Bahia web site

1. What does Presidio La Bahia mean?

2. What country established Presidio La Bahia? When? and Why?

3. What year was Presidio La Bahia relocated to its present location?

4. What was the original name of the town surrounding the fort?

5. What is the name of the chapel at Presidio La Bahia?

6. What role did Presidio La Bahia play in the American Revolution?

7. In what year did Mexico gain its Independence from Spain?

8. Name the six flags that have flown over Texas.

9. There were nine flags that flew over Presidio La Bahia. The six flags over Texas plus what three flags?

10. On October 9, 1835, the Texan colonists captured the fort from Mexico. What event took place here on December

20, 1835?

11. Where was the official Texas Declaration of Independence signed and on what date?

12. Who was named Commander in Chief of the Texas army?

13. Who was named the commander of troops at Goliad in early March 1836?

14. What name had been given to the fort at Goliad?  
 

15. Why did Colonel Fannin delay leaving the fort after being told to abandon it by General Sam Houston?

16. When Colonel Fannin did leave the fort on March 19, 1836, how far did he go before the Mexican army caught up with him?

17. Who was the commander of the Mexican army?

18. On March 20, 1836 Colonel Fannin surrendered. What happened next?

19. On Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836 Colonel Fannin and his men were executed on orders from General Santa Anna, dictator of Mexico. What name was given to that tragic day in Texas history and how many men died?

20. What is the Fannin Monument and where is it located?

1. Fort of the Bay

2. Spain, 1721, protect the coast from the French

3. 1749

4. La Bahia

5. Our Lady of Loreto

6. Supplied men and supplies to General Galvez

7. 1821

8. Spanish, French, Mexican, Texas, Confederate States, and United States

9. First Republic of Texas, Doctor Long and Goliad

10. First Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in the Chapel

11. Washington on the Brazos, March 2, 1836

12. Sam Houston

13. Colonel James W. Fannin

14. Fort Defiance

15. He had sent troops to Refugio to help settlers out and he was waiting for their return

16. Nine Miles

17. General Urrea

18. They were taken back to Fort Defiance (Presidio La Bahia) as prisoners

19. Goliad Massacre - 342 men killed

20. A memorial to Colonel Fannin and his men. It is located Southeast of the fort

Updated Friday, September 07, 2007