 For me the valuable thing about traveling outside the classroom to go and learn about history is Really about basically it takes the words on the page and makes them real. So it's I mean Antietam this past week and what's supposed to be the Antietam Illumination ceremony and it's not unfortunately, but they When you go there you see the battlefield after reading about it for a couple of days And when you have words on the page you can learn that 23,000 people died But you don't really understand what that means and then when you go to Antietam where they have this illumination Ceremony and they put a candle down for every single person that's died on the actual battlefield You it actually becomes very real and very tangible and you're able to actually recognize oh 23,000 people is a lot of people and it's the great thing about place place learning is that you are actually Seeing things instead of just reading things and I think that makes a very different connection for people and it also helps students I know for me it helped me remember things longer and long and make a bigger impact on me long past Just reading a textbook It got you outside of the classroom And that's really you know more what I remember is being outside of the classroom and I think the coolest thing for me Just trying to learn the information was experiencing it or you talked about I Guess the prep work beforehand You can learn I guess about it read about it But when you go there you pick up on things that you read and you bring that to the place that you're visiting So once they say those key words it kind of hits you and then it's I guess going back and Reinstilling I guess what you're trying to learn And I guess for me what works is you know repeating that information in a different way So you don't just read it, but then you experience it and then you remember it and it adds meaning At the Arlington house There's not there's a little pane of glass that's right off the front of the house to the left and it has the signature inscribed It says our E. Lee June 17th 1859 People will visit the Arlington house and they'll say oh well this is nice like it's a big empty house we're in the middle of a restoration and You know they know that Robert E. Lee lived there for 30 years prior to the Civil War They can get that idea of it, but then you show him this pane of glass And I usually I take people over to it and I ask them just to look at the pane of glass And you know if they notice anything what is it and they go over to the pane of glass and they look at it And they steer at it and you just see this totally just new expression on their face and they say that says Robert E. Lee like June 17th 1859 and The signature in the glass it really connects them because they can walk in the same floorboards that Robert Lee walked on But seeing a signature that may have been his but it's actually his son's Seeing a signature in the glass like that really makes it real for them