fieldtrip

plural fieldtrips

1. alternativeAlternative form of field trip.

   Following our fieldtrips with this teacher, the class persuaded her to get permission from the Head for us to dig a pond; […]

   2007, Nick Ardley, “Early School Days”, in The May Flower: A Barging Childhood, Stroud, Glos.: Tempus, →ISBN, page 87

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   We matched our pace to the measured strides of Patrociño, an elder in the village, who was leading our fieldtrip through the farm. […] Our fieldtrip to Placitas offered students in my ethnobotany class an opportunity to recognize how epistemology in science—the origin, nature, and limits of knowledge—is intimately linked to place.

   2006, Carol Brandt, “Narratives of Location: Epistemology and Place in Higher Education”, in George Spindler, Lorie Hammond, editors, Innovations in Educational Ethnography: Theory, Methods, and Results, Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, part II (Studying “Side by Side”: Ethnographic Applications to Educational Settings), page 322

   They told us on our fieldtrips, over and over, that diversion and irrigation had transformed the unyielding desert, not into a sea with barking seals as I’d imagined at the state capitol, but into a high-yielding agrarian economy.

   2016, Tershia D’Elgin, “The Nuisance of Hindsight”, in The Man Who Thought He Owned Water: On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food, Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 34