Describes benefits of using the controlled environment of a museum field trip as a culminating nature study activity for kindergarten students. Suggests students prepare questions to ask at the museum and museum staff be made aware of any particular interests of the children. (NEC)

Presents highlights of the 1985 joint meeting of the eastern section of the National Association of Geology Teachers and the Ontario Association for Geographic and Environmental Education. Describes the workshop topics, field trips, and program activities of the three-day symposium. (ML)

Presents a lesson plan which shows how to integrate primary source material gathered during a field trip to a local historical society into a history or social studies class. Includes primary source material from an 1825 diary and a list of discussion questions. (JDH)

To better understand the economic aspects of early Florida and to gain an understanding of the continuity of history and economics, students analyze the economic origins and evolution of St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in the United States. This lesson plan involves taking the students on a field trip to St. Augustine where they form teams…

This guide prepares students for a visit to the Hemphill Folk Art Collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The guide includes a map showing the six states from where the art works originated; questions and answers about the art; and activities for students. As students read the guide and look at the photographs of the art works, they are…

Twenty-six South Senior High School students participated in a tour day Ecology Field Trip to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. (NQ)

The Headmistress of a British Primary School describes her school, and discusses the extensive use of outdoor activities and field trips. (ST)

Describes two field trips to give deaf children language developing experiences. (GB)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, December 28-30, 1970, Washington, D.C. (RS)

An American professor reports on his visit to several African countries where he lectured on education in the U.S. (Ed.)

Article gives comments by students and the interaction that took place during an exchange trip between two groups of youngsters whose environment, way of life, and even language were different. (GB)

Describes three approaches to a study of the earth's past: (1) development of a time line of the ages; (2) a study of rocks and how each was formed; and (3) a study of fossils as found in certain kinds of stone. (Editor)

Describes an aviation workshop for teachers at the University of South Florida called Aviation Perspectives and its Environment." (MB)