Educational Approach
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We turn systems into stories your students can learn from
Our interactive field trips examine the world through its systems to awaken curiosity and determination in the next generation of problem-solvers. Understanding systems allows us to see connections and interdependencies between ourselves and the environment, economy, and society – that are often invisible. Systems thinking deepens curiosity, self-discovery, critical thinking, and our ability to observe and analyze what we experience.
We believe in the pedagogical power of questions!
During each live interaction students start with questions to investigate as they explore each site and meet its experts. As the trip unfolds, the questions invite deeper reflection: “Why should I care?”, “ Who does this impact?”, “Why does this matter?”, “What role can I play?”
While students visit sites rarely seen and meet diverse professionals on-the-job, they are:
Prompted with fact-based and opinion-based questions from the host
Prompted to ask experts questions live
Polled to showcase their different perspectives
Invited to vote on options that result in different directions the field trip can take – choose-your-own-adventure style.
Inspired to reflect on big questions and connections
We take care of what happens during the field trip. What happens before and after is your choice. Our field trips are a rich educational resource – an ongoing, supplemental teaching and learning opportunity – that challenges your students to tap into the ambitious problem-solvers within each of them. Teachers have reported using our field trips to:
Engage students at the beginning of a unit or project
Launch and/or ground a cross-curricular project
Contextualize and scaffold learning with real world examples
Serve as inspiration for a research, writing or comprehension assignment
Bring abstract theoretical concepts to life
Be able to observe innovative demonstrations in professional contexts
Elicit forms of reflection including: critical thinking, creative thinking and practical thinking
Expose students to careers options and causes that can inspire life choices