Cordilleran Section - 98th Annual Meeting (May 13–15, 2002)

Paper No. 0
Presentation Time: 8:15 AM

GEOLOGICAL FIELD TRIPPING FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS


ENOCHS, Larry, Science And Mathematics Education, Oregon State Univ, 237 Weniger Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, enochsl@ucs.orst.edu

This workshop will address issues and techniques necessary to planning and delivering quality field trips for elementary and middle school teachers. The following topics will be covered: 1) the Teaming Up cooperative learning strategy to prepare teachers to group students on field trips; 2) planning for field trips describing the activity, pre-field trip activities, on-site activities and post-field trip activities; and 3) current literature on effective field trips.