The document discusses excursions and field trips in education. It defines excursions as school journeys with an educational purpose, while field trips are organized visits to enrich learning through hands-on experiences. Field trips allow students to observe phenomena in their natural settings and develop skills beyond the classroom. Effective field trips are carefully planned with clear objectives. They provide benefits like first-hand learning, developing observation skills, and stimulating interest in nature. However, field trips also face disadvantages like safety concerns, behavioral issues, and budget constraints if not implemented properly. Overall, excursions and field trips can create rewarding learning experiences if integrated into the curriculum.

1. EXCURSION AND FIELD TRIP
Submitted to
Mrs. Sushama Prabha L
Lecturer in NaturalScience
Submitted by
Avasin R
NaturalScience
Submitted on
20.7.2015

2. INDEX
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Introduction
Excursion and Field
Trip
Values of Excursion
and Field Trip
Organizing a Field
Trip
Advantages of
Excursion and Field
Trip
Disadvantages of
Excursion and Field
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Conclusion
Reference
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3. INTRODUCTION
Field trip and excursion are interchangeably used in educational
literature.But in strict sense they are different.An excursion is school
journey involving any organized travel made by teachers and students
primarily with an educational motive in mind.Field trips are organized
visits of teachers and students to immediate or distant places to enrich
learning experiences and to further instructional purposes of regular
classroom activities.The field trip is distinguished by its concentration on
learning particular aspects.Hence the success is judged by the fulfillment
of pre-determined goals.
Education is not confined to classroom teaching.Life in the
classroom can cover only a small part of our total life.If learning is to
result in the total development of the learners, must go beyond our
school walls in to the community as students and as working
participants. The chief purpose of fieldtrip is to give students first hand
experiences that cannot be had in the classroom.Students can see things
,hear things ,handle things and can examine them minutely.Hence
fieldtrip is an outdoor lesson in action.Many objects and phenomena can
be studied best in their natural setting. Fieldtrip provide opportunities
for learning through the use of many techniques other than in the
classroom with the community,it develops better social awareness and
social skills development in pupils.In short fieldtrip provide enough raw
materials that would promote of senses, knowledge, emotions and skills.

4. EXCURSION AND FIELD TRIP
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 place sometimes for other purposes.It is a short
journey or trip especially one taken as a leisure activity.It is a movement
of something along a path or through an angle.
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. eg. to visit natural or
geographical features.

5. VALUES OF FIELD TRIP AND EXCURSION
1. Excursion gives first hand experiences.
2. It supplements and enriches classroom teaching
3. It creates spirit of scientific enquiry.
4. Fieldtrip gives training in observation.
5. Stimulates interest in nature and learning.
6. It correlates the school life with the outside world.
7. Provides opportunities for utilizing community resources.
8. Excursion gives relief from the routine classroom work.
9. It develops qualities like leadership, co-operation, good public
relation, self-confidence, etc.
10. Field trips also provides opportunities for bringing out talents and
tastes.

6. ORGANISING A FIELD TRIP
To be effective, the trip must be planned carefully, otherwise it will
be just wastage of time, energy and money.The following are the stages
involved in the completion of a field trip:
1. A felt need: The purpose of the journey should be clear to students.
They should have a clear understanding of why they are going out,
where to and what exactly they might be expected to do.
2. Selecting a suitable place and securing the permission from the
resource centre.
3. Listing out specific objectives.
4. Planning and preparation.
5. Conducting the actual field trip or excursion.
6. Consolidating the results and taking up follow up activities: The trip
must be followed by discussion, reports or even a written test.
The fieldtrip should not be taken as a pleasure trip, though it is a
sort of an enjoyable activity. School –authorized, teacher-planned,
curriculum integrated field trips can provide the most concrete and
the most real learning experience.

7. ADVANTAGES OF EXCURSION AND FIELD TRIP
1. They provide direct source of knowledge and acquaint the student
with first hand information.
2. They provide an opportunity to the student for development of his
aesthetic sense.
3. By such excursion students become interested in the exploration of
their environment.
4. They help to develop in students a love for nature and to acquaint
them with the real happiness in the outside world.
5. It helps in development of power of observations, exploration,
judgment and drawing inferences, problem solving ability of
students.
6. It helps in developing qualities of resourcefulness, self-confidence,
Initiative and leadership amongst students.
7. It helps in developing cooperative attitude and various others.
8. It helps in proper utilization of leisure.
9. It motivates the students for self study and self activity.
10. It helps in the development of creative faculties of the students.

8. DISADVANTAGES OF EXCURSION AND FIELD TRIP
Field trips and excursion are aimed at giving students better
understanding of certain issues. However,the following disadvantages
always threaten to ruin the learning experience.
1. Lack of chaperones: students of younger ages are not able to
correctly interact with the environment and other members of the
society without supervision. This means without chaperons, the trip
may end up being unsuccessful.
2. Budgatery constraints: a field trip may require travel from o ne
region to another. This means the school or parents will have to take
care of transportation costs and meal costs. These may all amount
to too much expenses.
3. Safety concerns: when students are out of school, they may come in
to contact with harmful substances like toxic chemicals or hazardous
equipment. Keeping them safe from these things may present quite
a challenge.
4. Student behavior: On field trips and excursions, students normally
get a sense of freedom which may lead them to misbehave. This can
create an unpleasant experience for those in charge and those they
interact with.

9. CONCLUSION
Field trips and excursions allow the students to learn outside of the
classroom. Many field trips and excursions combine educational content
with team building activities, such as working together to clean a stream
that has been polluted. Infact, it is often a good idea to go on a excursion
early in the school year to help create a bond between the students. It is
a way to bring the students closer together. A good field trip and
excursion supplements the curriculum and it offers the opportunity to
teach the students something new.A field trip and excursion can create
a rewarding and exciting learning experience for a student.

10. REFERENCE
1.ScienceEducation:Methodology of teaching and Pedagogic analysis.
By, K.Sivarajan
Prof A.Faziluddin
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