Field Trips

Field trips enable the children to increase their learning beyond the walls of the classrooms into the vast community outside. Children gain experiences through these field trips that cannot be acquired at school.

In addition to arranging tuitions for the child, parents can support their children's understanding of science by taking the kids on family field trips to help them appreciate nature.

1.    First thing you need to do is to choose a geological site. Find out if there are any in your surroundings. Then plan a field trip to them. You can choose to visit a place where there are interesting rock formations. Before going you can look up the landscape features that you would like to see. Get knowledge about the layers of limestone, sandstone and sediment deposits along the base of exposed hillsides or stone quarries and discuss them with your kids how the deposits were formed and their effect on the nearby land.

2.    Get your child to visit an ecological centre. Find a local pond or a stream and have a visit during the time when you can explore surrounding reeds and marshy areas where ducks and other birds have built nests. Look for insects like dragon flies, crickets, and water creatures like crawfish, frogs, tadpoles. Teach your child about the life cycle that links the creatures and the land.

3.    Plan with your child to have a night-time look at the stars. Choose a night when the weather is good and the sky is clear. Gaze at the stars or look through the telescope. Look for constellations and try to locate the Milky Way. Try to look for the North Star or the great bear. Look for shooting stars and other astronomical phenomena. Talk with your child about the construction of the universe, the solar system and the earth’s place in it.

4.    Visit a working farm. Have a walk around the cultivated fields and farms where domestic animals are taken care of. Educate your child about the growing crops, sowing and harvesting seasons. They can learn about the different kinds of crops grown. Kids will enjoy looking at the baby calves or piglets and they can learn their behavior.

5.    Take your child for a hiking through the woods or a forest. Point out the different kinds of trees or plants. Help them to discover a rabbit hole or a fallen tree trunk or an anthill. Listen to birds’ sounds or small animal sounds in the woods.

Field trips are a great source of information to children coupled with amusement. Your child is benefited from the fresh ideas as well as the fresh air. They will very much cherish these field trips and this will add on to their wonderful memories of their childhood.