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My name is Drew Wicks and I am creating this wiki in an effort to collaborate with other teachers that take their students to Johnson's Island as part of the field experience offered at the Civil War Prison Camp. My hope is that as educators we can share ideas with one another of what types of things we do to tie the field experience into our classrooms. But also to develop new ideas to provide flexibility and creativity in our own teaching. Personally I am trying to find ways to make this experience more interdisciplinary to involve more of my colleagues in this wonderful experience. I know some teachers have been going for years and have a routine that they do to prepare their students for this excellent adventure, others may have just taken the class and are not sure how it can be utilized in a classroom setting. I hope that as we network this more ideas will be shared and then we can start to adapt and use the ideas of others to share and experience new things rather than just doing the same thing over and over. Hopefully this becomes a fruitful endeavor for all.