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Fieldtrips

Field trips should be planned to directly relate to classroom concepts, be age-appropriate, and engage students. Teachers should discuss expectations and involve students in planning. Live field trips require permission slips, transportation, supervision, and first aid supplies, while virtual trips ensure students have necessary online skills and pre-screen websites. Local field trip options for Sacramento schools include grocery stores, fire stations, historical sites, and cultural centers. Primary field trips focus on exploration while upper grades extend critical thinking and real-world connections. Both strengths and weaknesses include instruction time, resources, and planning required.

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Fieldtrips

Field trips should be planned to directly relate to classroom concepts, be age-appropriate, and engage students. Teachers should discuss expectations and involve students in planning. Live field trips require permission slips, transportation, supervision, and first aid supplies, while virtual trips ensure students have necessary online skills and pre-screen websites. Local field trip options for Sacramento schools include grocery stores, fire stations, historical sites, and cultural centers. Primary field trips focus on exploration while upper grades extend critical thinking and real-world connections. Both strengths and weaknesses include instruction time, resources, and planning required.

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Field Trips

Michelle Maddux, Shara


Bachman, Megan Mary,
and Valerie Johnson
Criteria for implementing field
trips
• Should provide an opportunity for students to
explore the concepts discussed in class.
• Should be age-appropriate.
• Should have a purpose and be engaging for
students.
• Discuss expectations and prepare students for the
experience.
• Allow children to be involved in planning.
Virtual vs. “Live” Field Trips
LIVE VIRTUAL
• Permission slips • Make sure students have
• Secure transportation necessary skills to perform on-
• Acquire parent volunteers for line tasks
adequate supervision • Screen websites for
• Coordinate with site personnel appropriateness
• Bring first-aid kit and food (if • Verify availability of
necessary) computers and server
connection
• Create objectives and materials
for on-site activites • Create purpose and activities
to perform while on-line: be
specific!
Field Trips for the Sacramento
Area
K-2 3-4 5-6
Gibson Ranch (Civil
Grocery Store Indian Grinding Rock
War Reenactment)

Old Sacramento & Tour of the Capitol


Fire Station Railroad Museum

Play at Local High Mondavi Center


Sutter’s Fort
School (cultural event)
Primary vs. Upper Grade Field
Trips
Primary Upper Grades
 Build experiences  Extends curriculum
through exploration through critical thinking
 Enriches the real world  Requires students to make
 Promotes appropriate connections to real-life
social behaviors situations and curriculum
 Creates connection with  Hands-on, Minds-on
community  Extends beyond
immediate community
Technology and Social Studies
• Web-Quests allow students to explore primary resources
and utilize process skills
• Creates opportunities for students to access the world
through multi-media resources
• Provides options for presenting information in a new and
exciting way
• Develops critical thinking skills
• Students can communicate with people around the world!
– Develop cultural awareness
– Ask questions
Strengths and Weaknesses of Field
Trips
Strengths Weaknesses
 Students connect classroom  Takes valuable instruction
experiences to real-life time
situations  Requires advances planning
 Hands-on, Minds-on and organization
 Opportunities for unique  Parent involvement
experiences and memories necessary
 Provides concrete examples  Limited monetary resources
and promotes  If not connected to the
comprehension of
curriculum, can be frivolous
curriculum

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