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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

How school trips can benefit students

By Hannah Smith


Nowadays, there seems to be fewer school trips and educational visits taking place, which is a real shame for both teachers and students. After all, the educational benefits of school trips far outweigh the concerns or red tape on health and safety matters, or funding constraints.

One of the main advantages of school trips is that they offer students the opportunity to learn in new and stimulating environments. Boredom in the classroom is experienced by many students, and many start to lose interest in the subjects they are supposed to be learning about. On an educational trip, on the other hand, even the most long-winded or difficult of topics can be tackled in an interesting way.

If fun is involved, children often tend to learn better. If you want to breathe new life into difficult subjects and break your students out of a learning rut, as well as encouraging them to get to know each other better in a more relaxed environment outside of the classroom, take your whole class on a fun school trip.

During a school trip, your students can put the knowledge they have learned in the classroom into practice. Examples of the types of environment where this tends to happen include hands-on exhibits at history or science museums, science experiments held outdoors, and orienteering trips where children can put their geography and map-reading skills to the test.

Not everyone learns best in the classroom environment, as some take in facts and information better through tactile, visual and auditory methods. So, if your students learn best by doing, take them on a school trip.

No education would be complete without new experiences, and this is another thing educational trips offer. They expose children to new and exciting cultural and arts events that many would otherwise not get to experience.




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