What is the purpose of a field trip?
Field trips enrich students’ learning by exposing them to experiences outside the classroom. Field trips give students experiential learning experiences and concrete skills such as note taking, and they help build community and renew tired or uninspired minds. When possible, students should take at least two or three field trips per semester.TypesField trips may be nearby or far away, a half-day or several days, involve physical journeys or virtual journeys online and they may involve a few students, a classroom, a grade or even a whole school. Virtual field trips are ideal for schools located far from major museums or exhibits relevant to students’ learning.Experiential LearningField trips give students the chance to experience and witness things they have only read or heard about in the classroom. When students get to pet animals they have studied, visit gardens full of flowers they have diagrammed or meet a professional artist whose work they have viewed in the classroom, their lear
