11. Using a simple authoring programme like Touch Explorer Plus, a teacher might employ information technology to prepare a class for a site visit. 12. Indeed, they will often create their own databases to record information collected on museum visits or site visits or through fieldwork. 13. Site visits and museum visits should be a regular feature in the schemes of work for history. 14. Ideally, if finance permitted, there would be a site visit, or perhaps several visits for every history topic. 15. Reports of the National Curriculum History Committees in both England and Wales have stressed the importance of museum visits and site visits for the teaching of National Curriculum history. 16. Site visits also generally offer teachers an excellent mechanism for covering all of the required key elements in the PESC formula. 17. Using a site visit as an information collecting exercise is one strategy adopted by many groups. 18. Direct experience of the real thing must after all remain the primary purpose of any site visit. 19. The computer or concept keyboard is becoming a useful tool in the preparation work for site visits. 20. Site visits can offer valuable cross-curricular links. |