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Making The Most

The document outlines the procedures and objectives for planning and conducting educational field trips. It discusses preliminary planning steps like making arrangements and developing a route plan. Pre-planning with students includes providing background and safety guidelines. During the trip, the schedule and student participation are monitored. Post-trip activities reinforce learning. Field trips provide hands-on, memorable experiences outside the classroom to nurture curiosity and change perspectives. Potential disadvantages include costs, logistics, time demands, and uncertainty. Community resources that could be visited include museums, zoos, and historical sites.
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Making The Most

The document outlines the procedures and objectives for planning and conducting educational field trips. It discusses preliminary planning steps like making arrangements and developing a route plan. Pre-planning with students includes providing background and safety guidelines. During the trip, the schedule and student participation are monitored. Post-trip activities reinforce learning. Field trips provide hands-on, memorable experiences outside the classroom to nurture curiosity and change perspectives. Potential disadvantages include costs, logistics, time demands, and uncertainty. Community resources that could be visited include museums, zoos, and historical sites.
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MAKING THE MOST COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND FIELD TRIPS

Field trip— offers an excellent bridge between the work of the school and the work outside.

“In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind”

Objectives:

.Enumerate the procedure and criteria that must be observed in planning and conducting field trips.

.Learn the educational benefits of having a field trip

.Know the community resources that can be utilized for learning

Procedures we follow to avoid failed study trips includes this steps:

1. Preliminary planning by the teacher

2. Preplanning with others going on the trip

3. Taking the field trip

4. Post-field follow up activities

Preliminary planning by the teacher

1. Make preliminary contacts, a tour on final arrangements with place to be visited.

2. Make final arrangements with the school principal about the details of the trip, time, schedule,
transportation arrangements, finances, and permission slips from the parents.

3. Make a tentative route plan, subject to later alteration based on class planning and objectives.

4. Try to work out mutually satisfactory arrangements with other teachers if the trip will conflict with
thier classes.

Preplanning with others going on the trip


1. Before the trip, use a variety of learning materials in order to give each students a background for the
trip.

2. Prepare a list of questions to send ahead to the guide of the study trip.

3. Define safely and behavior standards for the journey there and for the field trip site itself.

4. Discuss and decide on ways to documents the trip. Everyone is expected to take notes.

Taking the field trip itself

1. Discuss route map of places to be observed.

2. Upon arriving at the destination, teacher should check the group and introduce the guide.

3. Special effort should be made to ensure that:

. The trip keeps on the time schedule

. The students have the opportunity to obtain answers to questions.

. The group participates courteously in the entire trip

. The guide stick closely to the list of question

Educational benifits derived from a field trip

1. Field trips are opportunities for reach and memorable experiences which are fundamental to learning
that lasts.

2. Field trip bring us to the world beyond the classroom.

3. It can bring about a lot of realization which may lead to changes in attitudes and ensights.

4. Field trip can nurture curiosity, build a zest for new experiences a sense of wonder.

Disadvantages of field trips


1. It is costly

2. It involves logistics

3. It is extravagant with time

4. It contains an element of uncertainty

Community Resources

Field trip may be a visit to a museums, zoos, botanical garden, historical places, places of exhibit, scenic
spots.

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