The Virtual Valentines Project is an easy, free project designed to teach students geographical awareness and cultural understanding while connecting classrooms all around the world for Valentine's Day. Through this experience, our goal is to circumnavigate the globe with virtual Valentines greetings and cultural exchanges in order to spread a little happiness to children everywhere.  Whether your students are in kindergarten or are seniors in high school, this project will help them learn something new.  

To earn these 90 points, you will need to do the following:

1. Register to Participate (FREE and easy)

2. Mrs. Smoke will connect you with another classroom to do the Valentines exchange. 

3. Your class will create digital valentines using ANY tool you wish to use. 

   • Thinking Canva? Sure!

   • How about Adobe Express? Go for it!

   • Flip? Why not?! You choose the tool that works best for you.

4. Exchange digital valentines and host a virtual call to meet your classroom partner. - Yep, Mrs. Smoke can help with this, too.

Directions: 

Step 1: Make a copy of this presentation here: Virtual Field Trips with Mrs. Smoke - Make a copy (google.com) 

Step 2: Complete the slides as needed. 

Step 3: Fill out the Challenge Accomplishment Form then upload an artifact to the Brag Board. Your artifact on the brag board can be the summary you wrote about your take-a-ways/a-ha moments in the Challenge Accomplishment Form.