Eduction Outside the Classroom (EOTC)Why create learning experiences, when you can have experiences to learn?I have become a huge advocate for EOTC. During the 2017-2018 school year at ISNS, I was fortunate to be part of the grade 3 team who took 96 students on eleven field trips. Each field trip allowed students to experiences something completely different and sparked their curiosity for deeper learning. To the right you can read some student reflections regarding the field trips we took that year.
Here is student picking up garbage along the Shenzhen Bay waterfront to help have a positive impact on this ecosystem.
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Evie
My favorite field trip was shenzhen bay because it made me think WOW what do the other beaches look like... do they have alot of plastic, lots of glass? And this feild trip is also my favorite because we could relize the world is filled with plastic. Ailin Fieldtrips are important because then you can expirement and learn things that you can not if you stay in school. Like we would have never known about how to make eyeglasses, helmets, and to print exept if we went to those factories! Also like we would never have learned about how fast a elevator could go up exept if we went to the Ping An center!!! Isabella This one! It is the best because we learn and save the ecosystem at the same time! It is awesome when we can do more than 1 thing at a time so we don't waste time. We don't want to waste our time on ONLY learning and not taking action, if don't take action, what is the purpose of learning to take action? Lily I think the field trip help our learning by seeing real thing , beacuae if we alway sitting in the class room and lisen to some one speaking will not really helpful to our learning , and I think a much more better way to learn is to go out side and see the real thing and not only looking at the picture. And field trip can also help us learn about the things that we can’t really learn in class room Kevin We gets to feel what feeling it really are and you can only imagen when you are looking at books,we gets to see,touch,smell so its differentwhen you look at the books.We can take action during field trips like helping the ecosystem in Shenzhen Bay at Monday,May,28th,2018(today).We get to use resorces and things around us,talk to other people and it’s in real life. For further student reflections regarding EOTC please check out the following link: https://padlet.com/missallison/frieldtrips |