Geography excursions

For several years now, the competency-based approach has been in force in Cameroon. This approach advocates pragmatic learning. To achieve this, geography teachers need to get away from the usual routine of classroom lessons and get out into the field. The field enables the teacher to make learning interactive and the pupils to learn by discovering. Field trips are the ideal way to get students out in the field. This work provides a framework for organising excursions in classes in the observation sub-cycle ( 6th and 5th grades). It presents the constraints of a field trip and the value of field trips as a teaching-learning technique.