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Why Field Trips?. Positive Impact of Field Trips on Learning By Tommy Diamond. The Theory. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Why Field Trips?Positive Impact of Field Trips on
Learning
By Tommy Diamond
The Theory
• Field trips allow students to see things as they really are-complicated and imperfect-and not as they might be idealized in a textbook.It gives the student a chance to experience and to see the relevance of a subject in the real world.
Five Attributed Values of Field Trips
• Providing first-hand experience
• Stimulating interest & motivation in science
• Giving meaning to learning and interrelationships
• Observation and perception skills
• Personal and social development
Field trips inspire students to continue other scientific studies
• Data compiled in Mesa, AZ schools demonstrated that “96% of those students entering from a hands on science program in elementary grades opted to continue their science studies in high school, while only 4% of the students in the textbook study program continued in high school science programs” (Milson, 1990,p.2).
Meeting the Challenge of Interest
• As a science teacher, it is my goal and challenge to improve thinking skills, interest, and success in the area of science. To do this I feel it is sometimes necessary to step out of the conventional/formal classroom and into the world that surrounds us.
Providing first-hand experience
• Above right students take water sample test on Galveston Island.
• Below right students excavate dinosaur bone fossil from Big Bend National Park
Observation and perception skills
• Students observing geological features in the Marathon Basin area.
Personal and social development
• Student pose for a group picture at the McDonald Observatory in the Davis mountains of Texas.