Learning Trips: Worth the Price of Admission

Physical Education students traveling to a bowling alley.

Creative Writing students meeting a poet.

Career and Technical Education students visiting the NASCAR Institute.

Science students spending a day at Discovery Place.

The above are all examples of "field trips", which I prefer to call "learning trips."  Unfortunately, learning trips are routinely on the chopping block due to limited and/or decreased funding.

A recent learning trip called attention of how we cannot place a financial value on a genuine learning experience.  Evolving instructional technology has allowed more outside learning experiences to be brought into the classroom, utilizing Skype and Virtual Field Trips.