This article presents a sample activity to introduce students to geologic processes while opening up and expanding their curiosity about the world around them. This exercise is targeted towards younger students, but could serve as a short introductory activity for further schoolyard mapping activities for older students. In this activity, students…

This article summarizes findings from the author's study of the characteristics and use of high-quality materials designed to support classroom instruction of elementary-aged children before, during, and after field trips. It also expands on the implications of this research for classroom teachers' effective use of field trip support materials.

Using phenomenological analysis, the authors examined the long-term effects of an environmental education school field trip on fourth grade elementary students who visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The authors' findings suggest that one year after the experience, many students remembered what they had seen and heard and had developed a…

The conduct of fieldwork is an adventure, a voyage into the unknown. The author has several times had the opportunity to reflect on his fieldwork, which was most often conducted among remote Indigenous groups, initially in Australia and then wider afield in Thailand, the Philippines, and Africa. He is struck by the significant amount of time,…

Statistical analyses of pre-test and post-test results, as well as qualitative insight obtained by essays, compared introductory physical geography college students who learned desert geomorphology only virtually, in the field and both ways. With the exception of establishing geographic context, the virtual field trip was statistically…

Amy Bower is a physical oceanographer and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts--she has also been legally blind for 14 years. Through her partnership with the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, the oldest K-12 school for the visually impaired in the United States,…

Faculty members at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Tennessee use airplanes to increase mobility and save time. (MLF)

Describes a county-sponsored program which offers field trips for preschoolers and their parents, centered around preschoolers' interests. (ED)

A discussion of how detailed information on historical events can make bicentennial field trips more interesting and produce heightened awareness. (HB)

Teaches the concept of migration. (FF)

Suggests a pattern for planning a field trip that will develop reading skills, vocabulary, knowledge and, above all, interest in the subject. (RB)

Some suggestions on how to photograph art work to supplement classroom teaching. (AK)