Hi Riley: I think field trips (and guest speakers) are fantastic ways to reinforce the topics being discussed in a course, and can inspire marginal students to be motivated to do better as they visualize themselves in these settings. It changes from being "school" to "the real world of work". Plus these break the routine and give the student a different perspective about the lesson, the class, the profession, maybe even the teacher, as in "hey, this guy knows what he's talking about. Regards, Barry