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Field Trip |
Field Experience |
Purposes: |
- reward for behavior
- exposure to new places
- culminating event
- traditional destination
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- a quest for answers to student-generated questions
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Timing: |
- typically in spring and/or at end of a unit of study
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- whenever the need arises to find out new information from the "field"
- can be used to launch a unit of study, extend a unit of study or conclude a unit of study
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Extension: |
- typically a recap of what was seen or heard
- students are accountable for good behavior, etiquette and manners
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- most of the learning about a concept takes place after the field experience through carefully developed extension activities
- students are accountable for demonstrations of new understandings, knowledge and skills developed as a result of the field experience
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Academic
Benefits: |
- can serve as a review of previously-taught content
- provide exposure to areas that may draw a student's interest
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- learning objectives aligned with the grade-level curriculum guide the planning process
- interdisciplinary skills introduced, reviewed and mastered
- students arrive curious to seek answers to their own questions
- consistent with "Best Practice" model of constructivism, social learning and brain-based research
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