1. The document discusses field trips and excursions, noting that while similar, field trips have a more focused educational goal of enriching classroom learning, while excursions can be made for leisure or education. 2. It provides details on organizing effective field trips, including clearly communicating the purpose and objectives, selecting an appropriate location, planning activities, and following up with discussion or assessments. 3. Field trips and excursions provide benefits like first-hand learning experiences, stimulating interest in nature, developing observation skills, and supplementing classroom teaching. However, they also face disadvantages such as safety concerns, behavior issues, and budget constraints.

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TOPIC: FIELD TRIP AND
EXCURSION
Submitted To, Submitted By,
Reshma Thulasi. Priyanka K.P
Assistant Professor In Natural Science Natural Science
FMTC Mylapore FMTC Mylapore
SUBMITTED ON: 3/8/2015

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Sl. NO CONTENTS PAGE NO
1 INTRODUCTION 4
2 FIELD TRIP AND EXCURSION 5
3 VALUES OF FIELD TRIP AND
EXCURSION
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4 ORGANIZING A FIELD TRIP 6-7
5 ADVANTAGES OF FIELD TRIP 8
6 DISADVANTAGES OF FIELD
TRIP
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CONCLUSION
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REFERENCE
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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.

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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.

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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 provide opportunities for bringing out talents
and tastes.
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. In fact, 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.

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REFERENCE
1.ScienceEducation:Methodology of teaching and Pedagogic
analysis. By, K.Sivarajan Prof A.Faziluddin
2.http://www.excursions.academic edu/
3.http://www.field trip. academicedu/
4.http://www.academi info net/
Checked and corrected by
RESHMA THULASI T L
Assistant professor in natural science
F.M.T.C,KOLLAM