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Show » Salt Lake Tribune ADVENTURE Sunday, November10, 2002 World Is Perfect Classroomfor Young Travelers of hands-on activities. If was he old steam engine chugged along the tracks nearthe Golden Spike National HistoricSite, reasons we took our four children on so TOM manylong cross-country vacations was to educate them about the world by exposing Correctly locate where in Utah this photograph was taken and be eligible for a drawingfor the book Fishing Utah by Salt Lake Tribune sports reporter Brett Prettyman. En tries must be received by Wednesday noon. Send them to Where is it?, c/o'Tom Wharton, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. 40x BE Salt Lake whartonasltrib.com City, UT 84110, or via email to No one correctly identified last week's photo, which was taken at Panguitch Lake them to different cultures and experiences. Gayenasked oneof our twin s, who was10 or11 at the time, a question thatrelated to thetrain, the monument and Putting his hands on his “Mom,”hesaid defiantly. “1 amonvacation. I don’t wantto think.” Undaunted, we kept trying a varietyof different ways to use travel as an educational tool. hebest w amebytrying to makelearning as enjoyable as possible, sometimesfooling r 3 will 5 Exhibit to Showcase Expedition of . \ Lewis and Clark Arertinal (pee) tea (dolla Brazil (real) 362 180 3.78 ariada (dollar Chile THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: ST.LOUIS ‘The Missouri History Museum says it will 15) (peso) (yual showcase 732.73 828 Czech Rep. (koruna) Egypt (pound) European (euro) thanks to a $2.5 million gift from St. Louis based technol ogy company Emerson to help fund it New Zealand. (tonal) Norway (krone) Philippines(peso) Poland (zloty) Singapore (dollar) South Alnea (rand) South Korea(won) ) (krona) nd(Irani) eo ss festivals and concerts will cele: brate the 200th anniversary of Lewis and Clark's departureon their great expedition This is the only event being Taiwan (dollar Thailand(baht) sponsored nationally that will have the real stall” said Robert Archibald. president’ of the 150 telling the kids to go exploring. Much totheir surprise and delight, they found entire com- plexes of roomscutinto rock in Massachusetts fooled them by membersof an ancient cul- into learning as they chatted with actors playing characters from 19th-century New England. ture. National Park Servicefacil- ities often provided similarex. periences. The kids crawled into dugout canoes at Fort Clatsup in Oregon. Theytook cavetours at Wind Cave in Onanother vacationin Mexico, kids who hadresisted learning Spanishin school suddenly began asking their momforhelp conjugating verbs because they wanted to communicate with some newfoundfriends. In Minnesota's Voyagers South Dakota and Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. They watched cattle being castrated and branded at Arizona’s Pipe Spring National Monument. We took advantage of many National Park, we heard wolves and were chased out of campbya bear. We had a herd of Roosevelt elk wander through our backpacking site in Olympic National Park. And wegottoo close to a grizzly in NewMexicoprovided an opportunityto interact with birdsofprey. Sometimes, the learning magicjust happened. Ona trip to Bandalier, for example,weraninto an ar- read them. While I drove, Gayenwouldreadstories such as The Hobbit that seemed to have more of an impact as lightning flashed across the golf course andthe Oregon Mae of Science and Indus: try. They naturally figured the zooandthegolf course would be my favorites. But I couldnot get enough quict moments to ourselves. Campfire programs were usually big hits. One memorable oneat Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Monumentoffor insects. Anotherat Bandalier National Monumentin Glacierand in Banff. In all cases, the result was an interesting discussion about wildlife behavior. Missouri. Historical Society 4 43.42 “The exhibit will underscore hlight St Louis’ central 1433.94 role in the expedition and the expansion of the West. 1 Utah Travel Council www.utah.com SOUTCES www.wildlife.utah.goy 7, Salt Lake City www. visitsaltlake.com 8. Utah golf, www.uga.org 9 Utah skiing www.skiutah.com www.fs.fed.us 10. Utah bieyeling: 5. Bureau of Land Manage www.cyclingutah.com AMIGO byTALE Palla els an OM “Ws SALT LAKE COUNTY AREA '2> OFF WITH THIS COUPON BULLET SHUTTLE 1-866-234-4440 WENDOVER $7 casnback "1D Weenvny even on those occasions, some times education happened by accident. wharton@sltrib.com Hyde's Encore ours & iVcavel 2122 W. 5400 S., SLC 84118 plains. We wouldtry to teach the kids the value of money by ‘SHVERSMITW STATELINE no —PAmBWPEPPER “12 weekend 1-800-748-4242 earns, Othertimes, the learning was planned. UPCOMING FESTIVALS Iron Mission Days Iron Mission Days conclude ‘Tuesday with the Historic Cedar City community photography exhibit opening, marking the end of a weekfull oflectures, art, singing anda fair for pioneer crafi nod and games The festivities take place at Iron Mission State Park. Museum, 635 N. Main, Cedar City. ‘Today's activities are high- MasterSingers at 7 p.m. Monday is Iron Mission Day. 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Playinglicense plate bingo helped | them fearabout the nation’s geograph’ with songs ofthesea _ | SNOWMOBILE | YELLOWSTONE 2. State Parks Car gamesalso provided fun and learning. Whenthe children werelearningtheir alphabet, theyeach hadto fin letters on signsandbillboard: perfomedensats ‘vertestars!| the West's first headquarters, is poised to take the spotlight in 2004 when doz: ens of displays, re enactments, 112 1,226.37 134 out small holes in the rock and The Na ahd ace ee 53.08 ait» V7 Venezuela (bolvar) Louis, they could spendon dinner For example, we brought maps along andtookturnstryingto teach the kids how to Thomas Jetterson St. to make choices by giving them only so much money touch or keep anythingin a national park. He began pointing fered a night walk to search es that includedazoo, a par- written, illustrated field jour naland the letter of credit from. Ue, n noggtt) 1350) experiments. Using that | WHARTON experience, sought out children's museumsorliving history exhibits when traveling with my kids. Visiting a place such as Old Sturbridge Village was impressed because the kids had been taughtnotto Ore., to visit friends. One day they droppedusoff near a com: parentstookustoPortland, cluding William Clark's hand pen vera(Soe restaurant, I would force then: chaeologist on the trail who junior ranger programs, some which evenallowed usa few tional Bicentennial Exhibi tion” will feature some500rare : wtifacts and documents, in ce to budgetit through the entire vacation. Or, when dining at the kids into believing they were actually having fun while learning. Thereare different ways of using travel to educate. When I was a t -enager, my of the museumandits dozens “Lewis & Clark: Bes Lee eee most 464 Austria, Belgium, Finland, France. Germany. Greece. Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands. 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