Chapter 13: Outdoor Adventures

This chapter was filled with a lot of fun ideas for extended field trips that a teacher could do with students. As a future social studies teacher obviously I was partial to the reenactment ones. The argument for the benefit of this kind of trips is very self explanatory I think. As I was reading all I could think of was how much I wished I could do that sort of field trip now. There are a lot of roadblocks though. The first two major problems I thought of were funding and the permission of the principal to allow student to miss that much school time. If both of those were taken care of the next hurdle would be permission from parents. Some parents would not be comfortable with their child in a tent in the woods over night. The next problem would be getting enough chaperons and making sure someone in the group was CPR/First Aid certified. After that it would be logistical nightmare with supplies and transportation. Once all of those things are worked out, I bet the trip would be an amazing and memorable learning experience.