2. • What is Field Trip?
• Steps in Planning a Field Trip
o Preliminary Planning by the teacher By Brown (1969) proposes
the:
For preplanning with students joining the trip
For preplanning with others joining the trip
Taking the Field Trip
• Educational Benefits Derived from a Field Trip
• Disadvantages of Field Trips
• Community Resources
• Evaluating Field Trip
3. WHAT IS FIELD TRIP?
These are excursions, educational trips, and visit conducted
to observe an event that is unavailable within the classroom.
4. STEPS IN PLANNING A FIELD TRIP
1. Preliminary planning by the teacher
2. Preliminary planning with others going on the trip, and
3. Taking the field trip itself, and
4. Post-field trip follow up activities.
5. PRELIMINARY PLANNING BY THE TEACHER,
BROWN (1969)
• Make preliminary contacts, a tour on final arrangements with the
place to be visited.
• Make final arrangements with the school principal about the
details of trip: time, schedule, transportation, arrangements,
finances, and permission slips from parents.
• Make a tentative route plan, subject to later alteration based on
class planning and objectives.
• Try to work out mutually satisfactory arrangements with other
teachers if the trip will conflict with their classes.
• Prepare preliminary lists of questions or other materials which will
be help in planning with the students.
6. • Discuss the objectives of the trip and write them
down.
• Prepare a list of questions to send ahead to the guide
of the study trip.
• Define safety and behavior standards for the journey
there and for the field trip site itself.
• Discuss and decide on ways to document the trip.
• List specific objects to be seen on their way to the
site.
• Discuss appropriate dress.
• Before the trip, use a variety of learning materials in
Preliminary with students joining the trip
7. 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 the teachers,
• Other teachers and/or;
• School administrator staff
Preliminary with others joining the trip
8. • Distribute route map of places to be observed.
• Upon arriving at the destination, teacher should check the
group and introduce the guide.
• Special effort should be made to ensure that:
Taking the Field Trip
The trip keeps to 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.
9. EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS DERIVED FROM A FIELD
TRIP
1. The acquisition of lasting concepts and change in attitudes
are rooted on concrete and rich experiences.
2. Field trip bring us to the world beyond the classroom.
3. Field trip have a wide range of application.
4. It can bring about a lot of realizations which may lead to
changes in attitudes and insights.
10. DISADVANTAGES OF FIELD TRIP
1. It is costly
2. It involves logistics
3. It is extravagant with time, and
4. Contains an element of uncertainly
11. COMMUNITY RESOURCES
• The parents of the students
• A dentist
• A journalist
• A dynamic
• A senior citizen
• A barangay captain
12. EVALUATING FIELD TRIP
• 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?
Questions to evaluate the field trip:
