Learning beyond the classroom
Students at The Buffalo Academy of Scholars take weekly field trips that are related to topics being studied in their various subjects. Pre-work to prepare students for the trip is done in the content area related to the trip being planned. While the students are participating in the trip, they have to record observations that are processed once they return to school.
The students are continually asked to identify why they are learning particular topics and how the information being learned connects to other things they know. In this way, the linkages themselves help to improve understanding and aid in recall following the learning experience.
Upcoming Field Trips:
Monday, March 14th: Extended Field Trip to The Foundry–afternoon
Previous Field Trips:
Friday, January 29th: TOY Number the Stars — morning
Wednesday, February 3rd: Jacobs Neurological Institute–afternoon
Thursday, February 25th: In-House field trip: Go Veggies Healthy Cooking demonstration–afternoon
View photos of past field trips:
- Jacobs Neurological Institute–2015
- The Darwin Martin House built by Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Museum
- Buffalo Museum of Science – Human Body exhibit
- The Buffalo Historic Society’s 1901 Exposition exhibit
- The Buffalo History Museum
- Buffalo City Hall
- Cooking class using locally grown produce
- In-house field trip with Christopher Randby from the Jacobs Institute
- Forest Lawn Cemetery
- Jacobs Neurological Institute
- Buffalo Museum of Science – Bug Works exhibit
- Washington DC – Private White House Tour, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- In-House Field Trip: Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
- Delaware Park