Describes a field trip designed to give students opportunities to experience relevant data leading to concepts in biogeography. Suggests that teachers (including college instructors) adapt the areas studied and procedures used to their own locations. Includes a suggested field trip handout. (JN)

Believing that confinement of students within the same four walls does not lead to the best learning, a sixth-grade teacher took his students 20 miles into the country to work on their science lessons, where they used all of their senses in a unique hands-on farm environment. (Author/KC)

Try to learn all you can about a plant in the winter. As the season changes, you can see what the dried seed pod is like in bloom. You are a convert if you notice a spectacular show of summer wildflowers and wonder what sort of winter weed will result. (Author/CM)

Traced is the development of an exhibition and research center of alternative technology which exists as a functional village. Also described are the facilities, operations, and available educational services. (DC)

The author took his sixth-grade class to visit a local university. The field trip helped his students to understand what college is about and the role it might play in their future career planning. (SJL)

Career Educaton Trips initiated by Emory & Henry College to give students an opportunity to hear alumni reflect on the working world and the advantages an E&H education provides are described. The trips consisted of two-day visits by students to alumni at their work sites and in their homes. (MLW)

Describes a night-time field trip conducted in Buffalo, New York for nine emotionally handicapped students from a rural area as part of a summer program of Project WOODS (We're Only Outdoors Developing Skills). (AN)

A wilderness course conducted by a nonprofit organization is described. Various areas of inquiry offered by the course are described, including investigation of energy resources in the wilderness. (RE)