PBIS Memory Cards – Field Trip Edition

Positive Behavior Expectations Matching Game

Make field trip expectations engaging, interactive, and easy to review with PBIS Memory Cards: Field Trip Edition! This student-friendly matching game helps students recognize common behavior challenges that can happen away from school and connect each one with an appropriate corrective action, replacement behavior, or responsible next step.

Students encounter realistic field trip situations such as wandering away from a chaperone, leaning over safety barriers, arguing about bus seating, using unkind words with venue staff, getting off the bus before being dismissed, touching exhibits marked “Do Not Touch,” and arriving late to a designated meeting point. PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations… PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations…

What’s Included

This resource includes:

• 60 PBIS Memory Cards
• 30 matching behavior/action pairs
• Coordinating PBIS Memory – Field Trip Edition card backs
• Realistic field trip behavior scenarios
• Corrective and replacement-behavior cards
• Expectations for buses, museums, zoos, parks, public spaces, gift shops, nature centers, and other trip locations
• Print-ready cards that can be cut apart and reused

Students do more than identify an inappropriate behavior. They match each situation with a positive response that helps them repair the problem and practice the expected behavior.

Examples include returning to a group and staying within arm’s reach of a buddy, accepting an assigned bus seat, apologizing for leaving a partner, remaining seated until a group is called to exit, and returning extra materials so other visitors can have a turn. PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations… PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations…

Skills & Expectations Reinforced

Students practice expectations related to:

• Staying with assigned chaperones and buddies
• Following teacher, driver, guide, and venue directions
• Riding the bus safely
• Respecting safety barriers and posted rules
• Keeping hands off restricted exhibits and artifacts
• Using appropriate voice levels in public spaces
• Walking safely with the group
• Waiting patiently in lines and crowds
• Respecting venue staff and volunteers
• Taking only an appropriate share of materials
• Keeping public areas clean
• Respecting plants, wildlife, and natural spaces
• Asking permission before leaving the group
• Using appropriate manners with community members
• Showing consideration for classmates experiencing something new

The set includes situations students may realistically face on trips, including running through gift shops, using loud voices in quiet areas, taking pictures without permission, leaving trash behind, bringing unauthorized electronics, pushing through crowds, and disturbing wildlife. PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations… PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations… PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations…

More Than a Traditional Memory Game

This activity combines the fun of a classic memory game with meaningful PBIS instruction.

Students work to make the connection:

Field Trip Behavior → Responsible Response

When students find a matching pair, extend the learning with questions such as:

What made this behavior unsafe, disrespectful, or irresponsible?
Who could be affected by this choice?
What should the student do differently next time?
What would the expected behavior look like on an actual field trip?

Corrective cards encourage students to practice real replacement behaviors, including using an appropriate Level 1 voice, picking up items that were knocked over, keeping hands to themselves around exhibits, asking permission before leaving the group, and staying focused on the person directly ahead while walking in line. PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations… PBIS Memory - PBIS Expectations…

Perfect For

Use these cards during:

• Pre-field-trip expectation lessons
• PBIS instruction
• Back-to-school behavior teaching
• Morning meetings
• SEL lessons
• Small-group behavior instruction
• Counseling groups
• Classroom centers
• Partner activities
• Field trip preparation
• Behavior reteaching
• Restorative conversations
• End-of-year field trip preparation
• Before visiting museums, zoos, parks, nature centers, or community locations

Easy to Prepare & Play

Simply print, cut, shuffle, and play!

For extra durability, print the cards on cardstock and laminate them for repeated use.

For traditional memory play, place all cards face down. Students turn over two cards at a time and try to match a field trip behavior scenario with its corresponding corrective-action card. When a correct match is found, the student keeps the pair.

The cards can also be used for sorting activities, role-play, discussion prompts, partner challenges, small-group intervention, pre-trip review, or whole-class PBIS instruction.

Prepare Students Before Leaving Campus

Field trips provide exciting opportunities for learning—but they also require students to apply school expectations in unfamiliar settings.

PBIS Memory Cards: Field Trip Edition gives students a fun and meaningful way to practice those expectations before the trip begins. Students learn how to stay with their group, respect public spaces, follow safety procedures, interact appropriately with community members, and take responsibility when mistakes happen.

Help students carry Safe, Respectful, and Responsible behavior with them wherever learning takes them!