Question

Objectives for organising the field trip?

Answer 1

The main objective of conducting a field trip for students is to reinforce experiential and contextual learning. Field trips are a way of enhancing classroom learning by making real world connections.

Answer 2

Field trips expose students to different lifestyles, places and eras. By touring an institution like the National World War I Museum -- whose collection includes 75,000 artifacts from all the warring nations -- students broaden their understanding of the conflict. Seeing these materials -- and exhibits that feature them -- allows teachers to expand on topics that are difficult to cover during a normal class period. Students also hear other perspectives besides the official U.S. viewpoint. A similar historic attraction is likely within driving distance of your district.

Develop Critical Thinking Skills
Evidence suggests that field trips stimulate students' reasoning skills. A University of Arkansas research team reached that conclusion after asking third- through 12th-grade students to write an essay on Bo Bartlett's painting "The Box" after touring the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Northwest Arkansas. Overall the researchers found that students assigned by a lottery to tour the museum showed a 9 percent improvement in critical thinking skills, including the ability to describe and comment on the painting.