Google Expeditions

Description

Google Expeditions is a great place for teachers to bring their students on a virtual adventure. Teachers can lead their class through tours and places around the world. Along the way, you can point out interesting landmarks.

Cost: free

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Details

Google Expeditions is going to be your new favorite app to explore with your students. Google Expeditions let's you explore the world without leaving your classroom. You will get to experience what it would be like to walk the streets of a different country or roam with dinosaurs.

  • Easy to set up and use
  • Hundreds of adventures for teachers to bring their students on
  • Teachers can create their own virtual field trips.
  • Teachers can be the guide if students are on the same connection.
  • Students can build their own tours.
  • Join another guide and let them walk you through a tour.
  • Use with or without cardboard or daydream viewer

Available on: IOS and Google Play

Also available in over ten languages

Classroom Use

This app will give your students a whole new level of understanding when you take them on the adventures Google Expeditions has to offer. With over 800 expeditions already created, you won't ever run short of places to explore or ways to incorporate this into your curriculum.

  • Have your students find facts and write about their favorite planet. Then take a trip to outer space to see all the planets up close.
  • Studying the continents? Go on an adventure to see an up close and personal look at some of the worlds most famous places and landmarks.
  • Go on a safari in Africa.
  • Studying holidays from around the world? Visit different places to see how and what they celebrate.

Blending tradional with technology

Google Expeditions is an awesome resource that adds to any lesson involving anywhere on the globe. Students will get super excited after they have learned all about a continent, country, state or famous landmark and they find out they get to take a virtual journey to their destination. Below are a couple of example lessons you could use to take your curriculum to the next level!

Expeditions - Apps on Google Play. (2019). Retrieved from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.expeditions&hl=en_US

Google LLC. (2016, September 20). ‎Expeditions. Retrieved from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/expeditions/id1131711060