Best Practice: Structure your field day
around a single theme

Helping students organize and remember all of the messages presented to them during a field day is challenging. Experts
suggest that themes help students to group information and better retain it by providing a framework that relates the many facts presented to them.

Themes basically summarize the main idea you want to teach. Effective themes relate to participants’ schoolwork and home lives, and effective field day presentations are planned around a few learning objectives that relate directly to the theme.

Access audience worksheets and forms through the links at right.