Making a Field Trip Not Just a Field Trip

 

Li Yanfei (李艳菲)

Chatham High School


Too often students are taken on field trips with no other purpose than to leave school and “have fun”. Recently, I took five of my high school Chinese classes (three levels) on a field trip to Chinatown in Flushing. However, I was determined to not only provide the students with an educational experience, but also one in which the students could apply what they learned in the real situation. In this paper, I would like to share how I designed my field trip plans by using differentiate instruction, and making field trip as an outside classroom.