7) Field Trip planning exercises

1. Suggestions include:

• figure out your route on a city map
• read brochures about the location
• review and finalize the Field Trip Plan
• figure out the total cost of the field trip, for each individual and the whole group
• group contracting re: expectations/behaviour

8) Open Time

1. Students can use final 30 minutes or so to:

• do a photography related Websearch using activity sheet
• look at photo book resources
• complete any unfinished work
• mounting additional photographs and adding to student gallery
• downloading and printing walkabout images (digital cameras!)

9) Wrap-Up

DAY 7:

Field Trip Day: General Schedule

(This is the schedule for our pilot project. Your schedule will vary!)

1. Meet, Check.In, Get Organized, Travel (1:00-1:30)
2. Field Visits (1:30-4:45) (MacLaren 1:30-3:00, other 3:15-4:45)
3. Wrap up on location (4:45-5:00)
4. Students leave from location

(Instructor will take student films to develop overnight, or will collect the digital cameras and return to secure location to be printed tomorrow)

DAY 8:

1. Check In
2. Hand back student field trip photos : Discuss/share images
   (Digital Cameras: students select and print up to 6 images)
3. Word Process Field Trip Questions and Answers
   -students use word processing software to record their questions and the answers they received on the field trip. Edit and print out a copy. Use this summary to create the Field Trip project (see below).