Clinical Field Experience D: Field Trips
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ECE640_122221_Fieldtripprep1.pptx
Field Trips Prep
Grand Canyon University
ECE 640
Naseer Alomari
December 22, 2021
The purpose
to help students understand better community helpers and how they provide service in the communities.
While furthering understanding, students will focus on firefighters and their duties.
The New York State Prekindergarten learning standards
PK.SOC.3. Demonstrates an understanding of roles, rights, and responsibilities
PK.SOC.4. Begins to learn basic civic and democratic principles
PK.SCI.10. [K-2-ETS1-1.] Asks questions, makes observations, and gathers information about a situation people want to change to defne a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool
Classroom Connection
The field trip is designed to supplement the classroom learning process.
Students learn the subject matter in class and develop their vocabulary and social growth.
The new words and ideas they learn in class are only abstract.
The field trip and interactions offer a feel to the abstract ideas they encounter in class.
The learners will visit the specific place that is already mentioned in class
A field trip is beneficial if it enhances the learning process in class.
Young learners need tangible examples to create imagery of the abstract ideas they interact within class. They should be able to identify the roles different people play in the community .
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Location
New York City Fire Museum
278 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
Students will have a fire safety education tour
How to prevent fire within the home
How to protect themselves and escape
Students will learn about the evolution of firefighting
Students will have classroom training and simulated fire event in various mock environments.
Students will learn to preserve and present the history and cultural heritage of the fire service of New York.
Students should be able to identify the roles different people play in the community
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Object
Fire Safety
Students will receive a clear, authoritative explanation of what firefighters do and how they serve the community while learning about fire safety.
Pre-trip and post-trip activities will allow them to build these connections.
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Pre-trip
Science
The students will need to think about “What Should I Do?” and complete the worksheet to help them become more knowledgeable about fire safety.
The learning activity before to the field trip will help them learn and understand better from the trip.
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Pre-trip
Social Studies
Students will play a sorting game to determine which community helper belongs to.
Prior to undertaking the field trip, the learners will be exposed to a leaning activity relating to the trip (Behrendt & Franklin, 2014). Therefore, The learning activity before to the field trip will need the learners to identify different helpers in the community.
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After-trip Home Activity
The field trip helps children to understand firefighters and safety. There have different jobs and interactions that can best be understood and determined.
Children will involve their parents to interact with different helpers and learn more about it, like the mail carrier’s tools and uniform.
Parents and children need to cooperate in dressing up as community helpers and taking a photo.
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After-trip Home Activity
The field trip helps children to understand firefighters and safety.
The worksheet helps children from the field trip experience connect to home.
The worksheet will help children to relate the experience at the fire museum and help them in deep what they have learned in the museum.
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Reference:
Behrendt, M., & Franklin, T. (2014). A review of research on school field trips and their value in education. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 9(3), 235-245.
https://www.nycfiremuseum.org/
