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FIELD TRIPS & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES: BENEFITS OF SELECTING THE NATURAL WAY OF LEARNING Esra Kazan University of Texas a

FIELD TRIPS & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES: BENEFITS OF SELECTING THE NATURAL WAY OF LEARNING Esra Kazan University of Texas at Dallas November 2002. Benefits of Field Trips & Outdoor Activities. Knowledge in Science. Care for Environment. Improvement in Personal Skills.

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FIELD TRIPS & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES: BENEFITS OF SELECTING THE NATURAL WAY OF LEARNING Esra Kazan University of Texas a

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  1. FIELD TRIPS & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES: BENEFITS OF SELECTING THE NATURAL WAY OF LEARNING Esra Kazan University of Texas at Dallas November 2002

  2. Benefits of Field Trips & Outdoor Activities • Knowledge in Science • Care for Environment • Improvement in Personal Skills

  3. Knowledge in Science • See, touch, hear, smell, and feel objects • Participate in hands-on activities • Observe things first hand in real situations • Long-lasting knowledge

  4. Care for Environment • Gain consciousness and respect • Ecological sensitivity • Water, air pollution, endangered species • Protection of environment

  5. Improving Personal Skills • Student-student & student-teacher interaction • Leadership skills: teamwork & trust building • Facing challenges which builds: • self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance

  6. Making Field Trips More Fruitful • Examining natural and cultural objects • Forming concepts from experience • Using outdoor social groups • Meeting experts on the job • Generating interesting questions • Thinking aloud together

  7. Final Thoughts ~ Challenges ~ ~ Suggestions ~ • Children’s safety • Set up safety rules • Keeping their attention on subjects • Establish a reward system • Poorly designed schoolyards • Improve & maintain schoolyards

  8. Let’s turn our habitat into a real big classroom and a laboratory in which students are well motivated to learn and teachers are happy to teach.

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