Expeditions in the Classroom
Google Expeditions is an engaging way to enhance what you teach in your classroom. Students are engaged when they see what they've studied come to life. It's important to remember that it's not about the tech tool, it's how you use it to enhance the curriculum. For example, writing should be incorporated into every lesson.
Google Expeditions is an engaging way to enhance what you teach in your classroom. Students are engaged when they see what they've studied come to life. It's important to remember that it's not about the tech tool, it's how you use it to enhance the curriculum. For example, writing should be incorporated into every lesson.
Ideas for the Classroom
Ideas for the Classroom
- Go on an Expedition to introduce a topic of student and create interest.
- KWL
- Collaborate with students to come up with things they already know, what they might want to learn about the topic (questions), and then what they learned from the expedition
- Use as part of a research project, along with articles and videos in which students take notes after each activity.
- Exit Ticket
- Students write down 3 things they learned.
- End of unit celebration. Make the unit of study come to life.
- Have students predict what they might see based on the topic of the Expedition.
- Students make observations of things they see and then make inferences based on their observations.
- Go on an expedition to compare and contrast based on a topic of study.
- For example, after learning about Native Americans, go on the Expedition of Pow Wows and Inter-Tribal Dances, then fill out a Google Form answering questions where students compare and contrast what they learned in the classroom and what they learned in the expedition.
- Go on an expedition of something historic, or something that has changed and reason about what has created that change, or write about your observations.
- For example, visit Puerto Rico before the effects of Hurricane Maria, and then read or watch a video about what Puerto Rico is like today.
- Visit a historic house, like that of George Washington (U.S. Presidents' Homes), and write about what is different than a typical home today.
- Make your geometry lesson come to life by going on the Europe in two Dimensions tour and have students identify 2D shapes. Perhaps have students draw the shapes incorporated in the architecture.