My Field Trip To Jamaica

Pam Morris’ article, Supplementary Reading for Unit X: field work/Project work postulated the view that, “Surrounding the school is a powerful learning environment – the community. And, there is always some intended learning that will be facilitated by taking advantage of the environment.”
Armstrong (1980) noted that, “the community is really a laboratory for the Social Studies. As such, students can obtain practice in gathering information, analyzing their data, generating tentative conclusions, judging the worth of such results, and incorporating final judgments into the knowledge they have. As educational space, the community provides opportunities for students to apply their information processing skills from various disciplines.”
With these facts in mind one is cognizant that a field enquiry of any nature in most instances can prove to be very challenging and as such much detailed information need to be covered. This however, can prove to be very beneficial to stude...