阳春三月，暖阳和煦，春意盎然，鸟语花香……坐在教室打开地理课本，大量的知识点难以记忆，气候、地形、人口、成因，让人心急如焚……领科国际高中的老师说，绝不辜负美好时光，可以换种方式去学习地理。于是，师生十人共赴海南岛，同赏祖国大好河山，齐听当地风土人情，在实地考察中获真知，在快乐学习中得成长。以下是部分同学课堂感悟。
三亚海滩
放下课本，走出课堂，拥抱大自然。第一天，我们前往红树林湿地保护公园，看到了真实的奇妙的生物群落——红树林，见到了栖息在那里的众多小动物。当亲眼看到曾经出现在书本上的稀奇物种，同学们都感到很有趣和新奇。老师现场讲解气根的知识点：生长在大树下的那些像针一样的小树枝不是另外一种多肉植物的别称，而是攀缘植物的根，目的是让植物在湿度高的红树林环境中得到足够的空气和养分。当天，我们来到了雷琼海口火山群世界地质公园，老师科普特殊的火山地貌。大家观赏葱郁的热带植物、了解叹为观止的熔岩流、攀岩崎岖的马鞍岭火山口，最终在火山口的制高点合影留念。接下来，我们去往旅游海滨城市三亚，在亚龙湾开始为期两天半的对当地人进行采访的课程。这次采访让我受益匪浅，了解了以前从未接触过的信息，如三亚的经济增长、人文地理、环境保护等问题。在回程的路上，回想这次海南考察课，心中升起不一样的感受。感谢学校给我们安排这次丰富有趣的学习之旅，不仅加深了我对A2地理章节的理解，也加深了对地理学科的兴趣!
——刘同学
It’s always great to see things you were taught in the classroom in real life at a closer distance. When we were walking towards the crater of that extinct volcano in Haikou, seeing the solidified lava on the side of the path, the videos and pictures shown to us in class just came right back in mind. You could almost picture vividly what happened during its last eruption. Michael and I had an interesting discussion about why should we classify any volcanoes as extinct rather than dormant as there are always Magma underneath, even the plates are no longer moving now, maybe one day it will again, won’t they?
While visiting the mangrove park, to be honest, I never knew what mangroves are exactly. Walking through the forest, totally fascinated by the biodiversity, I guess all there left to say are compliments to the divine nature.
Though, we were not able to discover some coastal landforms we long for such as headlands, how good will it be if you could see the transform of a headland from cave to arch to stack to stump by marine processes, you would be able to feel the time being worn away I guess, it is still way exceeds anything you could learn from textbooks by simply lying on the beach seeing waves approaching, hitting the beach, breaking and retreating. Seeing beach cusps in person, confirming my hypothesis of no longshore drift in this bay area earlier that day is quite satisfactory. Lastly, when most of our predictions of tourism gets proved while interviewing locals, people working in the tourism industry and tourists, no words could be used to describe our gratification.
——Robin
通过这次地理实地考察课，体验了真正的“沉浸式”课堂。见到了和想象中完全不一样的事物，比如火山口的真实样貌是枝繁叶茂而非沙尘弥漫，很多小松鼠窜来窜去。在采访中，也听到了真实的海南之声，我们了解到当地人对海南的经济现状、旅游发展和环境问题的一些看法。这都是从书本和媒体中学习不到的，所以很感谢学校给我们这么难得的海南实地考察的机会，也感谢 Michael 从头到尾的策划与陪伴。总之，海南之行很有趣!
——杨同学