Thursday, May 17, 2007

More Field Trips Marvin Castellon




Have you ever wondered what school without field trips would be like? Have you ever been to a school that didn't have field trips? Do you think that Hammond needs more field trips? Field trips help kids learn through hands on activities. They give teachers a break from the classroom. 7-2, in my perspective, has not sponsored the right amount of field trips.

Field trips are taken to enrich learning. In one school a first grade teacher was teaching her students about butterflies and she took them to a butterfly museum. They learned a lot, which made their teacher happy. After that, all the teacher only had to do was refresh what they saw (floridaschools.com).Field trips also help teachers by letting them relax and they are still teaching.

Field trips give kids something to look forward to. Students are interested in hands on activities because they are more interactive. A trip to a planetarium, for example, would be more interesting than only learning about space with pencil and paper. Field trips give students a lot of information in a short amount of time. The New School of Northern Virginia feels that field trips are so important, that they try to have one almost every week. Students can benefit from all of these field trips.

Field trips are an effective way of learning, but there are also fun field trips to entertain or use as a reward. These field trips, if you can only go for good grades or good behavior, are sometimes called incentives. Incentives help students motivate themselves to do their work.

If there were more field trips then students and teachers could relax and learn at the same time. They also help teachers enrich learning. An even better reason is they are fun and educational. Hammond Middle School should have more field trips and enrich student lives.

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