field trip , its importance in biology study, its challenges and solutions

2. Constructivist teaching
strategy
 The teaching strategy in which learner are actively
involved
 Activities are interactive and student centered
 Teacher facilitate the process of learning and student
encourage to responsible
Examples:
 Experimentations
 Field trip
 Films
 Class discusssion

3. Field trip
“A trip made by students or research workers
to study something at first hand”
Example :
If the lesson is on making cheese if there is no hand on
experience it is difficult to achieve objective . In
such lessons this strategy is use
 Introduce by Georg shillibeer in 1827

4. Types of field trip
 Instructional trips
 School contest or festivals
 Motivational trips

5. Steps in conducting field trip
Trip
selection
Logistics
planning
Pre-field
discussion
The field
trip
Post field
disscussion
Evaluating
field trip

6. Confusing terms
 Natural history :
Observation and description of organisms, community ,and
habitat including attentiveness to geology, hydrology ,and other
physical factors

7. Field biology :
Emphasis on using observational and experimental data
to advance conceptual models and theory

8. Field studies :
Field studies encompass a wider range of disciplines—
biology, geology, anthropology, and humanities—each of
which may require developing essential competencies
needed to live and work in outdoor settings, as well as
more specialized

9. Importance of field education
 Field experiences create not only better
science but also better scientists, citizens,
and people, thereby substantially
affecting the human–nature relationships
that form the basis for sustainability
 Ecologist Paul Dayton (2011) has noted
that
“there is simply no substitute for
actually experiencing nature, to see,
smell, and listen to the integrated
pattern that nature offers an open
mind.”
 Observing nature is the touchstone for
understanding how life works; therefore,
field studies serve quite literally as the
grounding for the biological sciences.
 Field experiences often force observers
to question

10. Cont…
 development of place based
understanding
 spark a “sense of wonder”
 Improve academic performance and
cognitive learning in undergraduate
biology students
 Help in team building
 Field experiences encourage
multiple ways of knowing: observing
nature (extracting understanding),
conversing with nature (developing
empathy), and participating in
nature (using resources)
 Field trips are supplement and
encircles classroom teaching
 Acquisition of lasting concepts and
change in attitude

11. Challenges to field education:

12. Solutions :