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Journal Article

Tips from the Field

Field trips are opportunities to experience science in settings beyond the classroom. But how do teachers design a trip that will enhance students' analytical skills and support classroom instruction? The tips and tools in this article have been coll...

Journal Article

Building Science Process Skills

A well-designed and executed field trip experience serves not only to enrich and supplement course content, but also creates opportunities to build basic science process skills. This article describes an onsite trip to the Bronx Zoo that allowed coll...

Journal Article

Idea Bank: A Sense of Place--GPS and the Biology Field Trip

In this month's Idea Bank column, a high school biology teacher describes an inquiry-based, high-tech scavenger hunt based on a hybrid form of geocaching that he developed called "BioCache," where students explore the wonders of nature and biology us...