Suggests that, with careful planning and a flexible approach, it is possible for journalism educators to provide advanced reporting students with opportunities for some realistic, on-site kinds of news coverage that can prove to be the highlight of the course. (HOD)

Four elementary teachers present several suggestions for exciting end-of-the-school-year learning activities. Ideas include making math a field day, enjoying an imagination celebration, broadcasting a book fair, planning a turn-of-the-century picnic, celebrating school history, and participating in a moving up day. (SM)

Summarizes the use of field experiments designed to investigate personal space invasion. States that the experiments were designed and conducted by introductory psychology students and complemented by classroom lectures. Reports that the experiments provided an understanding of personal space, personal space invasion, and the implications…

Advocates the use of field trips for improving students' image-interpretation abilities. Presents guidelines for developing a field trip for an aerial-photo interpretation class or a remote-sensing class. Reviews methodology employed, content emphasis, and includes an exercise that was used on a trip. (ML)

Describes a mass communications course that meets at media sites so that students can see first hand the business aspects of managing a publishing or broadcast concern. (HTH)

Reviews a study which sought to assess the influence of field activities, as compared to classroom-contained activities, upon students in an earth science laboratory course. Test results indicated that both groups had identical levels of lower-order learning but the field-oriented group demonstrated higher levels of understanding and application.…

Discusses how instructors can design a local field trip for undergraduate students enrolled in an economic geography class. The purpose of the field trip is to help students observe and interpret familiar scenes in terms of geographical concepts such as central place theory, changing land use, and spatial competition. (RM)

Furniture, clothing, and even the candy dish help amateur archaeologists uncover the "facts" through hands on experience. (Editor)

Specific skills to be mastered by social work students are identified and a competency based framework for teaching them is delineated. Embodied in this approach is a task centered method of instruction and a "micro" or transactional approach to assessing and advancing students' skill levels. (Author/MLW)

Asserts that field experiences cannot be replaced by a textbook or a computer program and discusses why field trips at the college level are in decline. (PR)

"And that's the way it was November 13, 1804." Kids trek back through time for an on-location drama. (Editor)

The traditional format for process recording, used in social work field education, is a written verbatim report of the worker-client interaction. It is argued that the process recording should be reconceptualized as a continuum of techniques. A proposed method is explained, suggestions for incorporating varied techniques are offered, and a model…

States that firsthand observations of the dynamic process that shapes landforms are important to understanding physical geography. Posits that locally planned, short-duration field exercises to study miniature or fourth-order landforms will enhance instruction about these fundamental geographic concepts. (DB)

Addresses problems associated with biology fieldwork and the teaching of ecology. Points out the need for the development of an objective approach in evaluating the effectiveness of fieldwork exercises. Reports on the evaluation of concept education by transect exercises. (ML)

Examines the role of ecology in science instruction and offers suggestions for integrating it into an existing curriculum. Discusses the value of field work and explains the different approaches and difficulties associated with ecological field studies. Highlights the advantages of using the local environment. (ML)