2. FIELD TRIP, EXCURSION AND
MANUSCRIPT MAGAZINES.
SUBMITTED TO, SUBMITTED BY,
Reshma Thulasi T.L Sauby Babu.
Asst.Prof. in Natural science
F.M.T.C. Mylapore
Date: 13-8-2015
3. INDEX
1. Introduction.
2. Field Trip.
3. Importance of Field Trip.
4. Contributions of Field Trip.
5. Excursion.
6. Importance of Excursion.
7. Manuscript of Magazine.
8. Importance of Manuscript Magazine.
9. Conclusion.
10. Reference
4. INTRODUCTION
We discus about the field trip, excursion and manuscript
magazines.A field trip is a journey by a group of people to a place
away from their normal environment. When done for students, it is
also known as school trip. The purpose of the trip is
usually observationfor education, non-experimental research or to
provide students with experiences outside their everyday activities,
such as going camping with teachers and their classmates. The aim
of this research is to observe the subject in its natural state and
possibly collect samples.
An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made
for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to
a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other
purposes.Writing a manuscript for publication is as difficult of a task
as it is rewarding. It is a chance for researchers to be able to finally
share their novel ideas with the general public. This, however, is a
privilege and not an end result of years of work that goes into a
study. It is important for scientists to keep this in mind when
designing their experiment and publishing their work.
5. FIELD TRIP
A trip by students to gain firsthand knowledge away from the
classroom, as to a museum, factory, geological area, or environment
of certain plants and animals.Field trips can be an important and
enjoyable element of education. They often significantly enhance the
content of a course by providing a type of information hard to
convey in the classroom. Site visits contextualize or enhance
historical or scientific data; interviews with participants or
observation of species, phenomena, or events often become an
important part both of course content and the study of a discipline’s
methodology.
Field trips are also used to produce civilized young men and women
who appreciate culture and the arts. It is seen that more-advantaged
children may have already experienced cultural institutions outside
of school, and field trips provide a common ground with more-
advantaged and less-advantaged children to have some of the same
cultural experiences in the arts.
A field trip or excursion is a planned visit to a point outside the
regular classroom. It may be in the school, out in community or it
could be a long trip to faraway places. Usually in field trips to places
like visits to a factory, observatory, agricultural institute, poultry
farms, museums etc., weoften see other people doing things. As
spectators we are not involved but we directly watch it and get a
first-hand knowledge. Therefore field trip is an excellent bridge
between the work of the classroom and the work of the outside
world. The chief difference between a field trip and other
6. educational experiences is that the student get their experiences in
the field and not in the classroom.
IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD TRIP
Field trips are of great educational value especially in science
subjects. The class room is a limited place, bounded normally by
four walls and meagerly equipped for the task or providing students
with worthwhile experiences. The environment outside the
classroom has no bounds; it has almost every conceivable situation
that a teacher might wish to utilize.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF A FIELD TRIP
Field experiences tent to be much more meaningful and permit
easier transfer of learning to solutions of real life problems.
Field work is the study of actual objects which stimulate more
curiosity than to ideas. Out of almost any situation
encountered in the field can develop in to some challenging
problems.
Field work permits first hand study of many things that cannot
be brought in to the classroom because of size and other
inconvenience.
Field work permits a class to engage in activities that are too
noisy or too violent to be used in the classroom.
Outdoors, students are able to work with large size materials.
7. EXCURSION
An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made
for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to
a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other (typically
work-related) purposes.A short trip or outing to some place, usually
for a special purpose and with the intention of a prompt return.
Public transportation companies issue reduced price excursion
tickets to attract business of this type. Often these tickets are
restricted to off-peak days or times for the destination concerned.
Short excursions for education or for observations of natural
phenomena are called field trips. One-day educational field studies
are often made by classes as extracurricular exercises, e.g. to visit a
natural or geographical feature.
The term is also used for short military movements into foreign
territory, without a formal announcement of war.
8. IMPORTANCE OF EXCURSION
Some of the important advantage of excursions is as under:
They provide direct source of knowledge and acquaint the
student with first-hand information.
They provide an opportunity to the student for development of
his aesthetic sense.
By such excursion students become interested in the explo-
ration of their environment.
They help to develop in students a love for nature and to
acquaint them with the real happiness in the outside world.
It helps in development of power of observations, exploration,
judgment and drawing inferences, problem solving ability of
students.
It helps in developing qualities of resourcefulness, self-
confidence, initiative and leadership amongst students.
It helps in developing cooperative attitude and various others
It helps in proper utilization of leisure.
9. It motivates the students for self-study and self-activity.
It helps in the development of creative faculties of the students.
MANUSCRIPT MAGAZINE
A manuscript is any document written by hand or typewritten, as
opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some
automated way. More recently it is understood to be an author's
written, typed, or word-processed copy of a work, as distinguished
from the print of the same. Before the arrival of printing, all
documents and books were manuscripts. Manuscripts are not
defined by their contents, which may combine writing with
mathematical calculations, maps, explanatory figures or
illustrations. Manuscripts may be in book form, scrolls or
in codex format. Illuminated manuscripts are enriched with
pictures, border decorations, elaborately embossed initial letters or
full-page illustrations.
Regardless of what order a particular journal wants the information
presented, it may be easier for the writer to use different strategies
to successfully devise the first draft. For example, it is often useful to
10. write the abstract last, as it will give the author a chance to
summarize the paper and determine if further editions need to be
made. Before attempting to write, it is useful to consider the target
audience and realize that editors and readers are looking for
something exciting that is written in a clear and concise manner.
The author should know what the objectives of the experiment are,
whether those objectives have been met, what changes to the
protocol are necessary, whether the work has clinical implications,
whether the statistical tests used are appropriate, if the experiment
has repeatable results, if a thorough literature search has been done,
and what new findings are being presented.
IMPORTANCE OF MANUSCRIPT MAGAZINE
Writing a manuscript for publication is as difficult of a task as it is
rewarding. It is a chance for researchers to be able to finally share
their novel ideas with the general public. This, however, is a
privilege and not an end result of years of work that goes into a
study. It is important for scientists to keep this in mind when
designing their experiment and publishing their work. A study
should be ethically and methodologically just. The published
manuscript should be accurate and thorough. Falsifying or
concealing data, intentionally or unintentionally, is immoral
because, scientific manuscripts have a broad impact and the clinical
implications can have a detrimental outcome if the science behind
the research is fraudulent. A good scientist recognizes this
responsibility and is aware of the importance of publishing.
Publishing is a great way to improve the practice of science and
11. medicine, get feedback, and provide a venue to develop and debate
new ideas.
CONCLUSION
Summarize the purpose of the field trip and excursion is
usually observation for education, non-experimental research or to
provide students with experiences outside their everyday activities,
such as going camping with teachers and their classmates. The aim
of this research is to observe the subject in its natural state and
possibly collect samples. It is seen that more-advantaged children
may have already experienced cultural institutions outside of
school, and field trips provide a common ground with more-
advantaged and less-advantaged children to have some of the same
cultural experiences in the arts.
Summarize the results in words rather than numbers and elaborate
on the extent to which the objectives of the study were met. Do not
12. include information from a literature search. Instead, focus on the
primary conclusions of the study. Interpret the results for the
audience; do not leave any results unexplained. Scientific writing
cannot be left open for interpretation. Be sure to avoid over-
interpreting the results and make general conclusions that cannot
be justifiably derived from the parameters of the study. Discuss any
clinical implications and limitations of the study as well as to what
extent the conclusions are in concert with other scientists.
REFERENCE
Jumpup Greene, Kisida, Bowen, Jay P., Brian, Daniel H. "The Educational Value of
Field Trips". Education Next. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
Jumpup Bitgood, Stephen (Summer 1989). "School Field Trips: An Overview".
Checked and corrected by
RESHMA THULASI T L
Asst.professor in N.S,F M T C Mylapore
