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- Title
Extending Engineering Learning Beyond Field Trips.
- Authors
Muller, Alexandria; Connolly, Tarah; Skinner, Ron; Harlow, Danielle
- Abstract
While school field trips are valued as supplementary educational tools, Andersen and Zhang (2003) found that in practice field trips are often treated as one-off learning experiences and not furthered through connections to the classroom curriculum. We worked with local K-6 teachers to develop lesson plans that would connect a 50-minute engineering design challenge, completed during a field trip to MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, to the students' classroom learning. Each Engineering Exploration module includes four activities: an engineering design activity completed during a field trip to an interactive science museum, accompanied by two preactivities and one post activity done in students' classroom and facilitated by their elementary school teacher. FIELD TRIP ACTIVITY After completing the first two activities in their classroom, students attended a field trip to an interactive science museum to participate in an engineering design activity.
- Subjects
ELEMENTARY school teachers; SCIENCE museums; SCIENTIFIC literacy
- Publication
Science & Children, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00368148.2020.12315796