This document outlines the steps for planning and conducting a successful field trip, including preliminary planning, pre-planning with students, taking the field trip, and follow-up activities. It discusses contacting the field trip location, making arrangements with the school, creating objectives and questions, preparing students, taking the trip, and evaluating the experience. The document also notes potential educational benefits of field trips, such as acquiring lasting concepts through rich experiences, but acknowledges disadvantages like costs and logistics. Community resources that could enhance field trips are also listed.

1. Making the Most
of Community Resources and Field Trips
By: Mary Ann L. Rone
A P r e s e n t a t i o n o n :

2. 1)Preliminary planning by the teacher,
2)Preplanning with others going on the trip,
3)Taking the field trip itself, and
4)Post-field trip follow up activities.
Planning a field trip includes
these steps:

3. For preliminary planning by the teacher, Brown (1969)
proposes the following:
 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 the 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.

4. Try to work out mutuality satisfactory
arrangements with other teachers if the
trip will conflict with their classes.
Prepare preliminary lists of questions or
other materials which will be helpful in
planning with the students.

5. Preplanning with students joining the trip
• 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.

6.  Lists 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 site.
 Discuss appropriate dress.
 Before the trip, use a variety of learning
materials in order to give each student a
background for the trip.

7. Preplanning with Others Joining the Trip
Other people accompanying the group
need to be oriented on the objectives,
route, behavior students 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.

8. Taking the Field Trip
 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:
-the trip keeps to the time schedule
-the students have opportunity to obtain answers to
questions
-the group participates courteously in the entire trip
-the guide sticks closely to the list of questions.

9. 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, efforts, 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?

10. Educational Benefits Derived from a Field Trip
Field trips can be fun and educational when they are well
executed. They offer us a number of educational benefits:
1.The acquisition of lasting concepts and change in
attitudes are rooted on concrete and rich experiences.
2.Field trips bring us to the world beyond the classroom.
3.Field trips have a wide range of application.
4.It can bring about a lot of realizations which may lead to
change in attitudes and insights.

11. Here are some realizations students had
after joining a field trip to the following
places:
A school for the blind
An automobile factory
A museum

12. Disadvantages of Field Trips
1.It is costly.
2.It involves logistics.
3.It is extravagant with time.
4. It contains an element of uncertainty.

13. Community Resources
Parents
Dentist
Journalist
Dynamic Teacher
Senior Citizen/ Veteran
Barangay Captain
Places to Visit
Public Libraries
Private Libraries