Many students who have special needs have IEP goals that involve gaining social skills. Taking students on a field trip is an excellent opportunity to practice social skills outside of the students’ everyday environment.
Field trips are rich with life lessons: they provide valuable insight into the community, and they give children a small taste of structured independence.
Accommodations needed : one has hearing impairment and other has ASD - Mild autism
Beaver Pond Trail is a 5 km loop that yields excellent views of two beaver ponds.
Field Trip - (Beaver Pond Trail)
The inventor of Eisenhower Matrix is Dwight David Eisenhower – an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. His method helps us prioritize by urgency and importance.
Safety
These tasks are not important but they still need to be done. The question you have to address yourself: Who can do this for you?
Take Educational assistants along to support students with special needs.
Keep batteries, knifes, and multitools required during hiking.
Keep the Fieldtrip permission forms that includes parents /emergency contacts of students in a sheet.
Keep the First Aid kit handy
Travel by Bus (2 hour)
Tasks that are not urgent nor important should be eliminated so you will not waste time doing them.
Provide snacks and water: Give breaks in between
Provide them with Map of the location beforehand
Preferential seating for ASD student and Hearing impairment student
Keep a count of students during the trip, allocate seat numbers to all in the bus
Pond Study (Afternoon)
Science and Technology: Habitats and Communities; Biodiversity (Grade 6)
These tasks are still important but they're not urgent so you can schedule a time to do them.
Observe what they see and write , Encourage them to ask questions
Identify and describe each according to methods of breathing, locomotion and feeding.
After study- Collect pond organisms in the jar and sketch;
Brainstorm the types of invertebrates and vertebrates found in ponds
Participants will become acquainted with the characteristics of healthy pond ecosystems.
Hiking (Morning)
Urgent and Important tasks that need to be done now.
Play scavenger hunt there to keep participants moving and motivating.
Keep plenty of water and food during the hike
Choose buddy for the students with special needs for pair activities and assistance at the same time
Provide the students Maps and compass.
Give directions orally using sign language ; Get students with special needs acquainted with the path one day before.
