Become familiar with trip setting

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Recommendations to teachers

• Become familiar with trip setting
• Orient students, clarify learning objectives
• Conduct pre- and post-visit activities
• Allow students to explore during the visit
  (free time)
• Plan curriculum-related activities
• Take advantage of the setting (unique)

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Bridging the gap 1

• Professional development
• Programming
• Resources (paper, web-based)

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Bridging the gap 2

• Build on teachers current practices
• Be attentive to constraints of teachers
  context
• Become aware of teachers goals and objectives
  in visiting your institution

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Multiple reasons for visiting

• Connecting to the curriculum/supporting content
  learning
• Exposing students to new experiences (including
  hands-on)
• Fostering interest and motivation, sparking
  curiosity
• Providing opportunities for social interactions
• Fun, enjoyment
• Day out from school
• (Research conducted in USA, Canada, Australia and
  Germany)

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Consulting with teachers

• Focus groups
• Teacher advisory groups
• Individual interviews
• Snapshot interviews

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Questions

• What did you do to prepare your students for
  the visit?
• How is this visit related to the work you are
  doing in school?
• Have you set your students any tasks to do
  while they are here at the museum?
• Do you plan to do anything connected to the
  visit back in the classroom, after you return to
  school?