This document discusses planning and conducting effective field trips. It notes that field trips offer an excellent bridge between classroom learning and the real world. Key steps in planning a field trip include preliminary planning by the teacher, pre-planning with students, taking the field trip, and follow-up activities. Effective planning involves setting objectives, safety guidelines, documentation methods, and follow-up questions. Field trips provide memorable, concrete experiences that foster lasting learning and changes in attitudes. They allow students to broaden their learning beyond textbooks. While field trips require logistical effort, their educational benefits outweigh these disadvantages.

1. Lesson 11:
Making the most of
community resources and
field trips

2. “ Field trips offer an excellent
bridge between the work of the
school and the work of the
world outside”

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

4. Preliminary planning by the teacher
 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
the parents.
 Make a tentative route plan, subject
to later alteration based on class
planning and objectives.
 Try to wok 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 helpful in planning with the

5. Preplanning with students joining the trip
 Discuss the objectives of the trip
and write them down.
 Prepare a list of question 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
documents the trip. Everyone is
expected to take notes.
 List 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.
Comfortable shoes for walking are
important.
 Before a trip, use a variety of
materials in order to give each
student a background for the trip.

6. 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 the
opportunity to obtain answer to
question.
-the group participates
courteously in the entire trip.
-the guide sticks closely to
the list of questions.

7. Post-field trip follow up activities
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, 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?

8. Educational benefits derived from a field trip
A. The acquisition of lasting concepts and change in
attitudes are rooted on concrete and rich
experiences. Fieldtrips are opportunities for reach
and memorable experiences which are fundamental
to learning that lasts.
B. Field trips bring us to the world beyond the
classroom. The real-world connection is more work
but the benefits of broadening teaching beyond
textbooks far outweigh the little bit of time it takes
from a teacher’s schedule.
C. Field trips have a wide range of application. It is not
meant only for children, it is for adults also. It is not
only meant for the social science subjects, it is for all
other subjects as well.
D. It can bring about a lot of realizations which may lead
to changes in attitudes and insights. The field trip
“can nurture curiosity; build a zest for new
experience, and a sense of wonder.” (Dale 1969)

9. Disadvantages of field trips
 It is costly
 It involves logistics
 It is extravagant
with time
 Contains an
element of
uncertainly

10. Community resources
These can be persons and places in the
community. For persons, let us not go too far.
 Let us begin with the parents of our students. Many
of them can be are source speakers in their fields
of expertise.
 A dentist may be invited to talk to the children on
how to care for their teeth.
 A journalist may serve as resource speaker on the
parts of a newspaper and how to write an
editorial.

11. Thank
you!!!!!!!!!!
Prepared by:
Jasmin V. Cervantes
Alaiza Via Taala
Kristine Ogaya
BEed Gen. Ed. 2A