Chapter 11

Making the Most of Community Resources and Field Trips

Introduction

           A field trip or excursion is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment. When done for students, it is also known as school trip in the UK, New Zealand; and school tour in the Philippines.

          The purpose of the trip is usually observation for education, non-experimental research or to provide students with experiences outside their everyday activities, such as going camping with teachers and their classmates. The aim of this research is to observe the subject in its natural state and possibly collect samples. Field trips are also used to produce civilized young men and women who appreciate culture and the arts. It is seen that more-advantaged children may have already experienced cultural institutions outside of school, and field trips provide a common ground with more-advantaged and less-advantaged children to have some of the same cultural experiences in the arts. 

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Reflection

Field trips are most often done in 3 steps: preparation, activities and follow-up activity. Preparation applies to both the student and the teacher. The teacher must have to be prepare so that the trip well be organized. Teachers often take the time to learn about the destination and the subject before the trip. Activities that happen on the field trips often include: lectures, seminar, school activity, videos and demonstrations. Follow-up activities are generally discussions that occur in the classroom once the field trip is completed. Even though field trips are risky and expensive we can still get the best knowledge out of the trip.