I have a trip scheduled for early May. When I planned this trip I was just planning, I was not thinking about connecting it to learning. When one of our classmates brought up the kindergarten trip for harvest, I began to reflect on our class trip. I really feel that I am cheating my students. I intended to work on bugs and insect prior to the trip. Now I am rethinking that now. I intend on altering my lesson for the rest of this month and continue into late May (we also have a trip at the end).
What I think is funny is that this trip had to approved by my VP, assistant superintendent and director of my department. The only questions on the sheet referred to what standards and what activities you will do prior to trip. I just put a KWL chart, but I gave no in depth information on how this connected to student's learning and understanding. I assumed that all these knowledgeable people would have investigated more into the connection to understanding. The description of the kindergarten class and the trip really helped me
2 comments:
I now re-think how and what I teach as a result of this class. It's interesting that your class trip was approved without much information. I hope you and your students enjoyed the trip and made it a worthwhile learning environment.
I agree that planning a field trip is a good opportunity to build lessons post-field trip. Before the trip you probably can get a few ideas of what to when your class gets back, but after you go the actual field trip, you will be surprised on how many ideas you will get.
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