Best Practices for Field Days: A Program Planning Guidebook for Organizers, Presenters, Teachers and Volunteers

Blair, Robert B.
Carlson, Stephan P.
Bilotta, John B.
Montgomery, Kent L.
Ostlie, Karen M.
Prax, Valerie J.
Rager, Amy R.B.
Meyer, Nathan J.
2005
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Best Practices for Field Days: A Program Planning Guidebook for Organizers, Presenters, Teachers and Volunteers

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2005

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Field days are one approach to environmental education programming that provide effective means of bridging classroom learning with real-world issues or problems. Field Days are typically multi-station field trip events in which students and teachers rotate through multiple presentations on environmental topics. They can happen indoors or outdoors for audiences of tens to thousands of students. Following a review of relevant literature, program surveys, and feedback from University of Minnesota Extension Educators, a series of seven recommendations were developed for planning and delivering effective Environmental Field Day programs. This guidebook translates these recommendations into implications for the design and delivery of effective events, and provides resources to help event organizers, presenters and participant teachers effectively address these implications.

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A practitioner-centered guidebook for the design and delivery of effective environmental field day events. The book translates a series of seven research and practitioner-based recommendations developed for planning and delivering effective Environmental Field Day programs into implications for the design and delivery of effective events, and provides resources to help event organizers, presenters and participant teachers effectively address these implications.
This archival publication may not reflect current scientific knowledge or recommendations. Current information available from the University of Minnesota Extension: https://www.extension.umn.edu.

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Meyer, N.J., Blair, R.B., Carlson, S.P., Bilotta, J.P., Montgomery, K.L., Ostlie, K.M., Prax, V.J., & Rager, A.R.B. (2005). Best Practices for Field Days: A Program Planning Guidebook for Organizers, Presenters, Teachers and Volunteers. Ed. N.J. Meyer, R. Pardello. Saint Paul: University of Minnesota Extension Service.

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Blair, Robert B.; Carlson, Stephan P.; Bilotta, John B.; Montgomery, Kent L.; Ostlie, Karen M.; Prax, Valerie J.; Rager, Amy R.B.; Meyer, Nathan J.. (2005). Best Practices for Field Days: A Program Planning Guidebook for Organizers, Presenters, Teachers and Volunteers. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/190402.

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