Image: Experience UGA facilitates up to 90 field trips each year with more than 40 partners on campus, bringing nearly 8,000 CCSD students to campus. By getting students out of the classroom for these visits, CCSD teachers can make real-world connections to the content they’re teaching. “On our recent ninth grade field trip, three students were learning about fruit flies from Shaun McCann at the genetics department booth. As soon as McCann began explaining the winged and wingless fruit flies, the students excitedly said, ‘We just learned this.’ It was so fulfilling to see students making connections to what they learned in class and being excited about their new knowledge,” Green said. Read More: Find out more here.
