Tel Aviv University uses its associated teaching hospitals for "factory" site visits in occupational health instruction. Medical students visit various departments to observe and evaluate the work environment, later discussing health implications. The visits are well-accepted by students, save time, and contribute to awareness of the…

Recounts the adventures of a journey taken through France and Italy. Makes an analogy of this trip to that of the one Charles Dickens took in 1844. Describes silicified horizons of the southern Paris Basin, moraines, outcrops, and "Hoodoos." (RT)

Discusses the teaching of ecology and environmental education in urban environments by using field trips to city parks, airports, nuclear power plants, water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, incinerators, foundries, and forests. (MKR)

Describes a school tour launched by a supermarket to familiarize children with basic facts about nutrition and healthful eating. Discusses visits to a perishable foods department, a shopping activity, a recipe preparation activity, and Food Pyramid activity. Suggests making enquiries about such tours with local supermarket chains and bringing it…

Guided by contextual and constructivist perspectives, this study situates museum-going in the everyday lives of children, exploring how children perceive their experiences in museums in relationship to the other places they visit. Children were divided in their designations of museums as fun, boring, or a combination of the two. (LZ)

Suggests that field trips may best be seen as an example of short-term experiential education. Explains how field trips may be helpful in a range of sociology classes; notes the basic steps to planning, undertaking, and evaluating field trips; and addresses advantages of, and objections to, such excursions. (DSK)

The author, a teacher of developmental English, details her methods for increasing student ability to process and analyze information. Advocates taking developmental classes on regularly planned alternative class site experiences in order to instill a wonder about learning and a willingness to engage in sophisticated information processing and…

Describes "What's Up in Factories?", an experimental curriculum developed by WNET television that combines video and a variety of interactive activities, including field trips to manufacturing facilities. Discusses goals that include an appreciation of manufacturing, learning about current trends and innovations, and discovering and…

This article identifies a variety of creative programs and projects designed to foster a healthy body image. Model practices are drawn from diverse educational and treatment settings. (Author/MKA)

Explains what being a naturalist means and discusses concerns about biologists who lack an understanding of natural history. Discusses reasons for the decline in the number of naturalists and makes suggestions on how to use natural history as a teaching tool. (Contains 12 references.) (YDS)

Describes a field trip to collect planarians as successful in generating interest in the sciences. This activity is suitable for all grade levels as a field trip or biology lab. Planarians can be easily collected from streams across the United States. Once in the classroom, planaria are easily fed and cared for. (SAH)

A program promoting college attendance and lifelong learning targeted schools in blue-collar Dayton (Ohio) neighborhoods whose residents were rural Appalachian migrants with low educational attainment and socioeconomic status. Program features included high school students mentoring elementary students, field trips to Sinclair Community College…

Examines differences and similarities between adult-led docent museum tours and those led by junior docents (high school students) based on their interactions with elementary school groups and strategies for presenting exhibits using several data-collection instruments. Finds greater student and teacher satisfaction with junior docents than with…

Describes how two social studies teachers designed a website in order to grant the other teachers in their school district access to the field trip database for the Washington-Baltimore area; furthermore, the idea for an elementary social studies website expanded into other projects that were also timesaving resources, such as the Electronic…