Field Trips
Overview
As an enriching social experience, field trips also engage learners in new topics, generate curiosity, and support Social Awareness & Relationship skills.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
Design It into Your Product
Use It in the Classroom
Watch how learners participate to draw real-world connections between field trips and their classroom learning. Through these community engagements, learners develop a meaningful understanding of their own community and the larger world.
Design It into Your Product
Watch how Google Expeditions allows teachers and students to visit faraway locations through virtual 3D field trips. As an immersive learning experience, students have the opportunity to see and learn about a novel, typically inaccessible location, thereby increasing their Motivation to learn.
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Additional Resources
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Factors Supported by this Strategy
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Students activate more cognitive processes by exploring and representing their understandings in visual form.
Free play supports learner interests and allows more complex social interactions to develop.
Reading aloud helps students to hear and practice reading and fluency skills.
Pretending allows students to step back from a problem or task and think about it from multiple angles.
Response devices boost engagement by encouraging all students to answer every question.
Providing students a voice in their learning is critical for making learning meaningful.
Actively manipulating word parts deepens a student's understanding of the way words are formed.
