Group Instructional Methods Field Trips

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Group Instructional MethodsField Trips
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Situations for Field Trips

• Create Interest
• Examples
• Gathering Information
• Examples
• Concluding a problem
• Examples

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Planning a Field Trip

• Establish goals for the trip
• Select an appropriate site
• Secure approval to schedule the trip
• Make specific arrangements
• Date and time
• Outline exactly what should happen
• Transportation

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Planning a Field Trip

• Prepare the students
• What will be learned
• Rules of conduct
• Parental permission
• Missed work in other classes

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Conducting a Field Trip

• Finalize preparations
• Be sure students are well behaved
• Multiple day events
• Do I need outside help?
• Students of the opposite gender
• Make sure students know what they are expected to
  learn
• Make sure host/hostess explains and clarifies key
  points
• Make sure students express their appreciation

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Summarizing What is Learned

• Develop, with students, a list of conclusions
• Develop plans for applying what is learned