Making the Most of

Community
Resources and
FieldTrips

Have you gone through a

Whattrip?
do you suggest to
field
improve a failed field
trip?
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Objectives:
Enumerate the procedures and criteria
that must be observed in planning and
conducting field trips.
Learn the educational benefits of having a
field trip.
Know the community resources that can
be utilized for learning.

Planning a Field Trip includes

three steps:
Preliminary planning by the
teacher and
preplanning with
others going on the trip.

Taking the field trip itself.

Post-field trip follow up activities.

Preliminary planning by the

teacher

Preliminary planning by the

teacher

1. Make preliminary contacts, a tour on

final arrangements with the place to be
visited.

Preliminary planning by the

teacher

Date and
Time
Schedule
Transportation
Arrangements
Finances
Permission

slips

2.Make final
arrangements
with the school
principal about
the details of the
trip: time,
schedule,
transportation
arrangements,
finances, and
permission slips
from the parents.

Preliminary planning by the

teacher

3. Make a tentative route plan, subject to

later alteration based on class planning and
objectives.

Preliminary planning by the

teacher
4. Try to wok out
mutually
satisfactory
arrangements
with other
teachers if the
trip will conflict
with their
classes.

Preliminary planning by the

teacher

5. Prepare preliminary
lists of questions or
other materials which
will be helpful in
planning with the
students.

Preplanning with others going on the

trip

Preplanning with others going on the

trip
1. Discuss the objectives of the trip
and write them down. The main
objectives should be included in the
permit slip given to parents and should
be consulted later when the trip is
evaluated.

Preplanning with others going on the

trip
2. Prepare a list of questions to send
ahead to the guide of the study trip.

Preplanning with others going on the

trip
3. Define safely and
behavior standards
for the journey there
and for the field trip
site itself.
4. Discuss and
decide on ways to
document the trip.
Everyone is
expected to take
notes.

Preplanning with others going on the

trip
5. List specific
objects to be seen
on their way to the
site, on the site of
the field trip and
on their way home
from the field trip.

Preplanning with others going on the

trip
6. Discuss appropriate dress.
Comfortable shoes for walking are
important.

Preplanning with others going on the

trip
7. Before the trip, use a variety of learning
materials in order to give each student a
background for the trip. For example, by
viewing a film, a slide set, or a still picture
unit dealing with housing standards and
conditions, a class maybe better prepared to
learn through a visit to an actual slum area.

Preplanning with others going on the

trip
Other people
accompanying the group
need to be oriented on the
objectives, route, behavior
standards required of
everyone so they can help
enforce these standards.
These may be parents
who will assist teachers,
other teachers and/or
school administrator staff.

Taking the field trip itself.

Taking the field trip itself.

1. Discuss
route map of
places to be
observed.
2. Upon arriving
at the
destination,
teacher should
check the group
and introduce
the guide.

Taking the field trip itself.

3. Special effort should be made to
ensure that:
- the trip keeps on the time schedule
- the students have the opportunity to obtain
answers to questions
- the group participates courteously in the
entire
trip
- the guide sticks closely to the list of
questions

Post-field trip follow up

activities.

Post-field trip follow up activities.

Evaluating Field Trip
These are questions we can ask after
the field trip to evaluate the field trip
we
just
had:
Could
the
same benefits be achieved by other
materials? Was it worth the time, effort, and
perhaps extra money?
Were there any unexpected problems which
could be foreseen another time? Were these
due to guides, students, poor planning, or
unexpected trip conditions?
Were new interests developed?
Should the trip be recommended to other
classes studying similar topics?

Planning a Field Trip includes

three steps:
Preliminary planning by the
teacher and
preplanning with
others going on the trip.

Taking the field trip itself.

Post-field trip follow up activities.

Educational Benefits
Derived

The acquisition
Field trips
Field trips have
It can bring
of lasting
bring us to the a wide range of about a lot of
concepts and
world beyond
application. It
realizations
change in
the classroom.
is not meant
which may lead
attitudes are
The real-world
only for
to changes in
rooted on
connection is
children, it is
attitudes and
concrete and
more work but for adults also.
insights. The
rich
the benefits of
It is not only
field trip can
experiences.
broadening
meant for the
nurture
Fieldtrips are
teaching
social science curiosity; build
opportunities
beyond
subjects, it is
a zest for new
for reach and
textbooks far
for all other
experience,
memorable
outweigh the
subjects as
and a sense of
experiences
little bit of time
well.
wonder. (Dale
which are
it takes from a
1969)
fundamental to
teachers
learning that
schedule.
lasts.

Disadvantages of
Field Trips

Disadvantages of
Field Trips
It is costly.
It involves logistics
It is extravagant with time
Contain an elements of
uncertainty.

Community Resources

Community Resources
These

can be persons and places in

the community. For persons, let us
not go too far.
Let us begin with the
parents of our students.
Many of them can be are
source speakers in their
fields of expertise.

Community Resources
A

dentist may be invited to talk

to the children on how to care
for their teeth.
A journalist may serve as
resource speaker on the parts of
a newspaper and
how to write an
editorial.

Community Resources
A

senior citizen and a war veteran in

the community may be invited to
class for an interview on a topic of
which he is expert, say for example,
his memories of World War II.
A barangay captain may be asked
on what the barangay intends to
do to curb the rampant alcoholism
among the youth in their community.

The Field Trip: A bridge of the

school and the community

Field trips abolish the walls that divide

the classroom and the outside world. Field
trips also connect people. All people
involved in the field trip students,
teachers, parents, school head come
together for joint planning. Resource person
in the community are brought to the school
as key informants in an interview by
children or as lecturers. Why not open your
school to field trips? We lose nothing when
we open our school doors to parents,
officials, and other members of the
community. Instead, we gain this support
and cooperation. They are rich learning
resources.

Thank you

Question 1 / 10
1. Planning a field trip excepts
A. preliminary planning by the teacher
B. taking not ready itself
C. post-field trip follow up activities

Question 2 / 10
2. For preliminary planning purposes,it
doesn't need to make a tentative route
plan, subjects to later alternation based
on class planning and objectives.
A. True
B. false

Question 3 / 10
3. For preliminary planning purposes,make
a tentative route plan, subject to later
alternation based on class planning and
objectives.
A. True
B. false

Question 4 / 10
4. In taking the field trip special effort
should be made to ensure that the trip
keeps to the available time.
A. True
B. false

Question 5 / 10
5. In taking the field trip special effort
should be ensure that the students
haven't opportunity to obtain answers to
questions.
A. True
B. false

Question 6 / 10
6.It is opportunities for rich and which are
fundamental to learning that lasts.
A. field trips and memorable experiences
B. Preplanning and preliminary
C. trip and post field trip

Question 7 / 10
7. It is more work but the benefits of
broadening teaching beyond textbooks for
outweigh the little bit of time it takes from
a teachers schedule.
A. real-world connection
B. field trip
C. pre planning

Question 8 / 10
8. A wide range of application.
A. real- world connection
B. field trip
C. pre planning

Question 9 / 10
9. Can nurture curiosity, build a test for
new experiences and a sense of wonder.
A. real- world connection
B. field trip
C. pre planning

Question 10 / 10
10. Educational benefits can compensate
for the drawbacks of field trips except.
A. it is costly
B. it involves logistics
C. time schedule

Essay

What field trip that is useful

and parallel to the course
that you are taking right
now? Give examples and
benefits of the anticipated
field trip.