Materials and Resources

Field Trip Preparation Checklist

• Check your schedules and arrange for students to be released
• Student permission slips
• Arrange for transport
• Arrange lunches
• Choose and examine your site:
  • Accessibility / permits
  • Parking
  • Safe working area / roads / construction
  • Good approaches and ample space
  • Place to leave equipment and have a large group discussion
  • Bathrooms
  • Walking distances
  • Student visibility for chaperones
• Equipment:
  • Think about what you will need and how much
  • Consider organizing equipment into boxes by class or even small packets by group. The less rearranging you need to do on site, the better.
  • Sample storage and transport back to the labs
  • Waste disposal
  • Rain gear
  • If you will have equipment that rotates between the groups, think this through
  • Crates for standing in the water
• Handouts
  • Preparation checklist
  • Field Trip Student Handout
  • Field Trip Group Leader Handout
  • Field Trip Homeworks
  • Site Surveying and Prediction-making
  • Site Survey Form
  • Prediction Form
  • Data Collection Form
  • Jamaica Pond Map and Description

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