Arrangement of educational field tours and excursions is considered now as an essential part of school programmes. By moving outdoors, the pupils get concrete information and enrich their personal experience. The mental horizon of pupils gets widened.
Again, during the course of trip all arrangements of travelling, boarding and lodging are made by pupils. This provides a practical training to develop the qualities of initiative, resourcefulness and self-confidence.
The educational trips can be of varied interests. Visits to museums, forts, temples, caves, forests, mountains, lakes, valleys, canals and corn fields help in supplementing the teaching of social studies history, geography etc. Excursion to Red Fort, Agra Fort,
Taj Mahal, Elora and Ajanta bring reality, clarity and vividness to the “dead matter” of history. Visits to industrial establishments, factories, laboratories etc. are very helpful to the students taking up science.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
As per organization of Field Trips and Excursions it is very necessary that it should be properly planned to achieve the maximum benefit from excursion. It must be wisely be conceived, ably conducted and intelligently evaluated.
The teacher in-charge should posses’ complete information regarding the place of visit. He must impart all the valuable knowledge to the pupils. The railway reservation of accommodation for entire route of movement and lodging at each place of stay should be thoroughly planned before-hand. All haste should be avoided. The entire work must be divided among the workers and group-leaders, proper budgeting should be done and economy mast be observed.
Recreational activities like singing, storytelling, photography should be organized side by side. Lastly, care must be taken for maintenance of perfect discipline in the entire course of excursion.