Course: How to maximise learning on field trips
St Paul's Bay, Malta
August 2020.
This course focuses on how to exploit field trips for maximum educational gain – topics covered included how to plan pre & post-trip activities including safety, key vocabulary, reporting, balancing the curriculum, learning outcomes, cross-curricular benefits, outdoor learning, analysis, documentation and the teacher’s role.
The course is designed on active learning methods and, at the end of the course, participants should be able to use the taught techniques effectively.
The course uses the region of Malta which is full of historical and cultural places of interest as an example of how you can adopt local history for your class. Finally, participants should learn how to use that information to enhance their teaching skills.
We learn...
-to introduce local history in our lessons
-to use everyday life as powerful source to our teaching
-to understand European culture
-to design educational activities
-how to incorporate cultural heritage into teaching
Outdoor learning activities.
Mdina (Lesson)
Take 5 photos and research 2 of them for Friday’s presentation
Give another name for Mdina.
What is Mdina surrounded by?
Describe, in detail, three different door knobs.
Take a selfie:
a) on a canon
b) outside Mdina dungeons
Describe a house with different architecture in the main square.
What’s the number of this house?
What type of architecture is it in?
Name the Museum on the right hand side as you walk into the city of Mdina.
Name three (3) restaurants.
What’s the name of the street that has a bridge connecting the two sides.
Name the most famous cake shop in Malta.
Give the name of two churches.
Name two (2) palaces.
Take a photo of saint’s statue.
