Field Trip Day Routine Visual Schedule Cards

About this resource

A posted, numbered sequence for the field trip routine that comes with its own data. Most routine-sequence sets stop at the pictures; this one adds a completion log, a roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a step that stops needing a prompt turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Routine

• Field Trip (5 steps) — pack your backpack, get on the bus, at the destination, eat lunch, get back on the bus

This routine covers one field trip day from preparation at school through returning home — it does not depict the classroom before departure, which is covered by separate products in this collection. If you need the classroom arrival or dismissal steps on either side of a field trip, those are separate products: School Arrival Routine Visual Schedule Cards (walking in after arrival) and Dismissal and Pack-Up Routine Visual Schedule Cards (packing up to leave); none overlap or show the same moment. The School Bus Routine product covers the bus stop and route to school (a different timing and purpose).

One picture is deliberately reused: getting on the bus and getting back on the bus share the same bus picture, because both involve the same vehicle — the printed step number, not a second picture, keeps the two cards in order. This is disclosed on the card, the strip page, and in this listing. Every other picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set: a backpack, a classical building, an apple. All were checked directly at card size in both art sets before this file was built and read clearly with no substitute picture needed. Cards are 2 inches square.

The Strip

A quick-reference view of the whole routine in numbered order on one page, in color and in ink-saver, so the fixed order is visible at a glance without cutting anything apart. The number prints on every cut-apart card too, so a dropped or reshuffled set can always be put back in order.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, the roll-up, the family update page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card and strip pages print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a posted, numbered picture sequence for one field trip routine, and a place to record whether each step needed help. It is not a field trip safety or boarding procedure, a behavior plan, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how it is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number, and your district's own field trip procedures get a blank line of their own on the hand-off page. The log counts one thing per step: whether help was needed, not what kind or in what order to remove it.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, paraprofessionals and chaperones who teach everyday routine sequences to early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, case managers who need that teaching to show up as data, and the families who get the update sent home.

More In The Collection

This is part of the Visual Supports Collection, alongside School Bus Routine Visual Schedule Cards, School Arrival Routine Visual Schedule Cards, and Dismissal and Pack-Up Routine Visual Schedule Cards; more picture-card sets — routine strips, choice boards, calm-down cards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.