Thursday, June 7, 2012

Where to go on a school trip

By Poppy Wild


If you are tasked with planning a school trip, it can be an exciting but also very challenging experience. But before you can get into the nitty-gritty of planning an educational trip, you firstly need to decide where to go and what to do. For this, you need ideas and inspiration.

Before you start looking at venues and events, and before you even dream of asking permission from the school, you need to think about what you want to get out of the school trip. For every idea you come up with, ask yourself whether it supports the curriculum, what instructional elements it has, and what learning outcomes can be achieved.

With these essential criteria in mind, you can start to research ideas for your school trip. One of the most common types of places to visit is the museum, mainly because many of them offer hands-on, interactive exhibits and areas. Children love these exhibits, and they also encourage them to apply knowledge they have learned in the classroom and remember more about certain topics.

Art galleries are another option to consider, but whether this will be suitable or not depends quite a lot on the age group of the students. Other places that may also be worth a visit are churches, cathedrals and other buildings of historical interest, but only choose those that illustrate something you are already learning about in school.

Two of the best school subjects to explore on educational trips are science and geography. With this in mind, why not take your class on an outdoors weekend?

This sort of outdoors school trip offers many different opportunities, allowing your students to either carry out experiments, analyse living things and collect natural objects, or to explore the local area, enjoy climbing hills and walking, and practice their map-reading skills by completing orienteering challenges and other outdoor pursuits.




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