Works Cited: EPCOT Center

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » Sep Fri 26, 2008 11:02 am

Yeah I would have to say I've learned a good bit about other countries from the World Showcase. I have a friend who went to Italy last year and I showed him my pictures of Italy there in the WS and he said it was just like the real thing. Also, I have been to Germany and I think the did a great job on that in the WS.

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Sep Fri 26, 2008 11:03 pm

Oddly, I don't think I ever used anything Disney-related for a school project. The only thing that I can recall at the moment was using pictures of Pleasure Island (in its original incarnation) for something, but it wasn't a project related to Disney.

I do remember coming back from a trip in high school, though, and my Spanish teacher asked if I'd used any Spanish on the trip - specifically referring to Mexico in Epcot. So, naturally, I said "Por favor mantÃ©nganse alejado de las puertas."

disneydreamer58 · Post by **disneydreamer58** » Sep Fri 26, 2008 11:26 pm

theBIGyowski wrote:
yodiwan1 wrote:Class of 99 rocks!!!!
Almost as much as the Class of 2000!

LOL OMG I feel old

Class of 1976 ruled at one time....ha ha ha

Joe90 · Post by **Joe90** » Sep Sat 27, 2008 4:20 am

I had long left high school before my first WDW trip.
I had traveled to many of the real countries featured in World Showcase.
My job pushes me into areas of innovation and research in diverse subject areas.
So do I learn anything on my trips to Epcot?
Darn right I do...almost every time.
Do I cite it in my work? No, probably not a wise move

Class of 82 doesn't rule, never did, doesn't want to and you can't make us

BuDz211 · Post by **BuDz211** » Jan Thu 08, 2009 4:56 pm

There was info I learned in Epcot that I probably would never have learned about if I never attended. For instance, I cannot recal learning anything about Morocco in my entire K-12 school career. Weird!

figmentaholic · Post by **figmentaholic** » Jan Thu 08, 2009 5:37 pm

theBIGyowski wrote:
yodiwan1 wrote:Class of 99 rocks!!!!
Almost as much as the Class of 2000!

Nah. Class of '93!!!!

But to the OP, unfortuatly I don't remember that I ever wrote a paper about any part of Disney. I have a terrible memory though, so it is possible that I did and don't recall.
But I lived overseas when I was a kid, so I didn't even get the chance to see WDW for the first time until the late 1980's, when I was in middle school. So it is possible that I wrote a "what I did this summer" paper after I went, hehe.

Future Guy · Post by **Future Guy** » Jan Fri 09, 2009 11:36 am

Esmeralda wrote:I'm with you on this one - things in school really sunk in when I had already learned them at Epcot. They just made learning fun!

I had the same experience. In fact, my fifth-grade teacher took her class on a field trip to EPCOT every year. I didn't get to go, since my parents didn't want to send me 3 hours away from home without one of them, and we had just moved that year so money was tight. It was all right, though. That summer my grandfather took me to EPCOT, and I got to do everything I wanted to do. This was in 1989 when EPCOT was at its peak.

If I recall, EPCOT used to have some sort of educators' resource center for teachers who were bringing their classes there. It's a real shame they've chucked education out the window for the sake of forcing EPCOT into a generic "Disney Parks" brand.