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Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips
Virtual field trips allow us to take our students where the bus can’t. Students can make connections with locations, concepts or people through the power of virtual field trips. What are the best virtual field trips out there? And how can we take the learning even further?
Virtual field trips allow us to take our students where the bus can’t. Students can make connections with locations, concepts or people through the power of virtual field trips. What are the best virtual field trips out there? And how can we take the learning even further?
Imagine your class traveling to see the Great Pyramid of Giza, touring the International Space Station, or having a face to face conversation with a beloved author. All of these experiences are possible through virtual field trips. Click HERE to hear more from Matt Miller.
Imagine your class traveling to see the Great Pyramid of Giza, touring the International Space Station, or having a face to face conversation with a beloved author. All of these experiences are possible through virtual field trips. Click HERE to hear more from Matt Miller.
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Virtual Field Trips...
Virtual Field Trips...
In today’s cyberage, the Internet can extend the educational value of field trips to levels previously unimaginable. Virtual field trips—field trips taken online—can take a student to locations too far away to travel to or too expensive to visit. Virtual field trips can take a student back in time, into outer space, or into the microscopic world.
A virtual field trip, if done correctly and in an educationally sound fashion, can provide many of the identical cognitive and affective gains that an actual real-life field trip can provide. (See Buettner, 1996, and Goldsworthy, 1997, for accounts of how students incorporated the Internet into their classroom field trip experiences.) The trick is to give the activity the same care and credibility as one would give to a real-life curricular excursion. Simply going to an interesting Web site would not constitute a curricular field trip in and of itself, just as an off-campus excursion to an amusement park would have limited curricular value (although there have been teachers who have attempted to justify a trip to an amusement park as a study of the gravitational forces exerted on the human body through the experience of a roller coaster ride).
If a virtual field trip is conducted in the same meticulous fashion as a real-life field trip, students should be able to acquire the same cognitive and affective gains that previous research has found. When this is possible, an entirely new world of experiences will be opened to all students regardless of the school field trip budget, as they can all experience firsthand the potential of the Internet as a valid curricular device.
Task:
Task:
Create an assignment that includes taking a virtual trip to an area that is related to your curriculum.
Have your students go on the field trip and explore.
What did the students learn about? Did they enjoy it?
How do you feel virtual field trips can enhance the teaching process?
Review the resources below and identify five field trips that you would like to explore with your students. Which five did you choose?
Link the assignment and answer the questions above on the Google Form provided below.
Resources:
Resources:
25+ Amazing Educational Virtual Field Trips—Spring 2020
Passport to Learning: 45+ Educational Virtual Field Trips to Explore from Home
HUGE List Of VIRTUAL Field Trips Your Kids Can Take From Home!
The 100+ Best Virtual Tours and Field Trips for Kids and Students [2020]
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