Lesson 11 Making the Most of Community Resources and Field Trips

                            This lesson is all about the field trip, the teacher's comments given above indicate failure of the field trips conducted. This is definitely the consequence of no planning or if ever there was, planning was done poorly. There are procedures must we follow to avoid the failed study trips described above. Planning a field trips includes these steps: preliminary planning by the teacher, pre -planning with others going on the trip and taking the field trip itself and post-field trip follow up activities.
                           Planning should be done to avoid failure in the learning process. Contact people in charge of the locations to visit and make arrangements with them. The time and date should be given precisely as this will help them prepare the location. Transportation is also essential. You should make sure that it is safe to travel in such vehicle.
                           Field trips offer, however, a crucial advantage: They can bring balance to the curriculum. The most popular destinations—museums, zoos, outdoor venues, and performances—have a natural fit with science, history, and the arts, subjects that have been marginalized by our current focus on basic skills.