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Teachers often plan field trip activities to extend and contextualize knowledge taught within the walls of the classroom. By creating experiences connected to information students have learned in an abstract way, teachers hope to make clear the links between concepts students study inside the walls of a school and those they face in their everyday lives.
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Smedley, K. (2015). Using Informal Learning Spaces to Increase Meaning-Making. In: Anderson, D., Cosson, A.d., McIntosh, L. (eds) Research Informing the Practice of Museum Educators. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-238-7_14
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