A high-school English teacher educated his students (military dependents) about the Vietnam War by helping them discover their own parents' role and the war's effects on their lives. After compiling research and interview data, students presented scenes depicting what people brought to the Vietnam War Memorial. (MLH)

Describes the organization and completion of a scientific field trip for a group of high school physics students that was organized primarily around a study of the Manhattan Project. The group visited the Trinity site, Los Alamos, several museums, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Very Large Array. Contact information for the various…

Presents suggestions for creating play-learning environments designed to promote children's early literacy. Suggests that stimulating and inviting environments, abundant in print-rich materials, realistic props, and manipulatives meaningful to children are most valuable. Themes include hospital, pizza restaurant, hardware store, flower shop, candy…

Explains the problem of mission for nature centers. The nature center must organize itself to become recognized and treasured for preserving a precious piece of habitat and it must know the plants and animals that inhabit the specific place in which the nature center resides. (PVD)

Offers advice on planning geology field trips as well as related sources of information. Focuses on a visit to study geological features in the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire coast. (DDR)

Teachers on a high school field trip used quick thinking when rescuing two students trapped in a small bay by a rising tide and a rocky coastline. Emphasizes that teachers should never assume that students will follow rules and must check frequently when supervising student groups. (LP)

Offers guidelines for creating and implementing an age-appropriate project that fits children's needs, interests, and surroundings. Using the example of a supermarket project, outlines the four stages of a project's development--preliminary planning, getting started, investigation and discovery, and wrapping up the project. Gives tips on learning…

Discusses how to teach about race by addressing specific landscapes. Points out the obvious dimensions of race and race relations present in the landscape through field trips, slides, maps, and assignments. Provides specific examples within Lexington, Kentucky. (CMK)

Examines whether short-term experiential learning reduces the drawbacks that may prevent instructors from using this technique. Considers the benefits and drawbacks of experiential learning. Explores instructor and student perspectives on three types of short-term exercises: (1) observations; (2) participant-observations; and (3) field trips. (CMK)

Maintains that a shopping mall is an ideal location for an elementary school music performance and can increase community visibility in order to encourage support for the music program. Provides guidelines for planning the performance from choosing the mall and selecting music to transporting the equipment and visiting the site. (CMK)

Presents a field-based course in which students investigate various aquatic environments and their physical and biological components using fly fishing as a medium for learning. (Author/MM)

Examines transformation in the nature of public spaces for children and the school's role in producing those spaces. Draws on two years of ethnographic field-work at an elementary school. Focuses on a field trip to an art museum and explores another type of trip. (CMK)

Five articles highlight benefits and organization of field trips: (1) "Field Trips Promote Child Learning at Its Best"; (2) "Planning for Maximum Benefit, Minimum Risk"; (3) "Coaching Community Hosts"; (4) "The Story of a Field Trip: Trash and Its Place within Children's Learning and Community"; and (5) "Field Trip Stories and Perspectives" (from…

In this article, the author talks about his experience in moving to Perspectives, a small charter school catering for grades 6-12 located near Chicago's Chinatown. He shares how he felt about transferring in the midst of his final year at elementary school. Compared to his old school, he learned some things that are different about Perspectives…

Teachers have always dreamed of taking their students to visit faraway places, or traveling with them to bygone days. Now, through the power of technology, students can experience "virtually" other times and places through "distance learning." The Internet, satellite communications, television, and telephones can provide access to some exceptional…