Educational Field Trips
Whether you are visiting St. Augustine for hours or days, Ancient City Tours will plan an Educational Field Trip that will meet all of your students' educational needs!
We Provide:
- PROFESSIONAL GUIDE SERVICE
ACT Guides are all licensed with the City of St. Augustine and the National Park Service.
- ITINERARY PLANNING AND SCHEDULING
ACT will custom plan all of your activities for your specific group. One check to ACT will cover all of your expenses.
- TRANSPORTATION, MEALS, ACCOMMODATIONS
We will plan these aspects of your trip if needed.
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Educational Materials:
Word Hunt
Medical Symbols
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Mortar and Pestle – As early as the 15th century mortars and pestles were used by Ancient Apothecaries to grind herbs to be made into medicines. Today it continues to be a symbol of pharmacists or drug stores. |
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Show Globe – Show globes were displayed in the front windows of Drug Stores as early as the 17th century. The bottom would be filled with a colored liquid. It is generally believed that if the liquid was green the townspeople were health and if the liquid was red it served as a warning sign that there was a disease in the town. |
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The Caduseus is the sign of the Ancient Physician. Today it depicts the body’s functions. The top is in the brain and the upright staff represents the “Tree of Life” or the spinal column. It is believed that the serpents represent positive and negative influences on the body. |
Student Activity – Allow you students the opportunity through library sources to do further research on these and other Medical symbols. Then ask the students to design their own medical symbol based on the area of medicine that they choose. (Surgery, patient care, medicine)
Medical Practices Then and Now
The information shared on this site is by NO means to be used as diagnosis or treatment
Cupping: Defined as “ application of a glass vessel from which the air has been exhausted by heat or a special suction apparatus to the skin in order to draw blood to the surface” (Tauber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary)
The earliest form of “cupping” was used by Ge Hong (281-341) The method, described by him in his book A Handbook of Prescriptions for Emergencies, stated that the cups were made of horn and were used to drain pustules. The procedure was later prescribed for headaches, dizziness, pulmonary tuberculosis and abdominal pain.
Procedure: A glass “cup” is heated by holding a small flame inside to create a vacuum. The cup is then placed on the area to be treated and left for approximately 5 minutes. The skin is sucked up into the cup, which encourages the flow of blood to the surface of the skin.
Actress Gwenyth Paltrow arrived at a New York film premiere of the movie The Anchorman, July 2004, with visible circular welts on her back. She received them after undergoing “dry cupping” treatment. Paltrow is said to be a fan of many alternative therapies and it is believed she chose cupping to rid her body of toxins.
Sunshine State Standards
Information given to elementary aged students while visiting the Spanish Military Hospital Museum will meet the following Sunshine Standards for:
Social Studies
Standard #1
(1) Understands how individuals, ideas, decisions and events can influence history
(2) Uses a variety of methods and sources to understand history
Standard #2
(1) Knows the significant and technological achievements of various societies
Standard #4
(1) Understands the geographical, economic, political, and cultural factors that characterized early exploration of the Americas
(2) Understands why colonial America was settled in regions
Standard #6
(2) Understands the influence of geography on the history of Florida
Science - Matter:
Standard #1
(2) Knows that common materials can be changed from one state to another by heating and cooling
(4) Knows that different materials are made by physically combining substances and that different objects can be made by combining different materials
How Living Things Interact with Their Environment: Standard #2
(2) Knows that living things compete in a climatic region with other living things
Are you planning a school field trip to St. Augustine? Why not have Ancient City Tours custom build your itinerary? Contact us for more information!
And don't forget to include the Spanish Military Hospital Museum in your trip!
