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A Guide to Great Field Trips

By: Kathleen Carroll

Formerly published by Zephyr Press

This comprehensive guide explores how to use field trips to increase student learning and responsibility and covers practical issues such as safety, transportation, permissions, and chaperones.

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781569762097
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 272
Publication date: January 01, 2007

Price: $43.95

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For Instructors

This book is not available as a review copy.

Description

Formerly published by Zephyr Press

Field trips help students develop lifelong learning skills, increase personal responsibility, and expand their world views.

This comprehensive guide explores every aspect of conducting successful trips, from establishing sound learning goals to following up after the excursion. The author covers practical issues such as safety, transportation, permissions, chaperones, and meals.

Author(s)

Kathleen Carroll

Kathleen Carroll is a professor at Cambridge College and has been leading students on field trips for decades. She is the author of Field Trips, Science for Every Learner, and Sing a Song of Science.

Table of Contents

1. Why Take Field Trips

2. The World as the Classroom: Where to Go and What to Do

3. Caring and Curiousity: The Foundations of Field Trips

4. Field Trips Are for Learning!

5. Handling Logistics: A Field Trip Essential

Acknowledgements

Index

Reviews

"A creative and useful resource for any type of field trip."

SchoolArts Magazine

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Available As:

For Instructors

This book is not available as a review copy.