Real work settings in the community offer learning experiences that cannot be duplicated in the school. The classroom teacher must know the experience program possibilities available in the community, and guide students to discover these possibilities. (KP)

Analyzes the nature of the learning process and attempts to show how the three components of a reinforcement contingency, the stimulus, the response and the reinforcement can be utilized to increase the efficiency of a typical science learning experience, the excursion. (JR)

Advocates field excursions in the teaching of geology and earth science. Provides useful suggestions and offers some cautions for the preparation and execution of a geology field trip. (JR)

Ideas for an ecology unit include field trips and a newspaper lesson; enviornmental study sources are listed. (SP)

The award was made to a high school English teacher who developed a program incorporating extensive field work into the academic regime. (SP)

Many experiments can be conducted in spring and early summer when many of the flowering plants must hurriedly bloom before the leafage of the trees and bushes takes most of the needed sunlight away. (DF)

Author describes approach taken by the Children's Aid Society of Vancouver in sponsoring a demonstration project aimed at illegitimacy prevention through hospital observation and family life dialogue with highschoolers. (Author/MB)

For children beginning at the elementary level, the phenomenon of the giant supermarket provides an excellent learning laboratory. (Editor)

An overnight canoe trip by seventh and eighth grade students on Lake George, New York, exemplifies one aspect of extending the curriculum, both for recreation and environmental education. Experiences with camping, canoeing, American History, aquatic ecology, and other areas are described to show the unlimited possibilities of such activities. (BL)

Illustrated with photographs and poems by participating students. (RD)