Build Experiences through Virtual Adventures
You can't take students to Antarctica or the Amazon, but you can take students on a virtual field trip. Some students lack even basic experiences such as visiting a city or a farm.
Virtual field trips are a great alternative when you can't go to the real location because of cost, time, disability, danger, or an impossibility such as a different time period or remote location.
Use the Internet to help these students make a connection.
Read Virtual Experiences: Field Trips & Simulations.
Read Virtual Adventures.
Explore online field trips:
- Homework Spot: Field Trip
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Dinosphere Activities
- JASON
- Journey North
- MuseumSpot
Explore Teacher Tap: Field Trips
Explore Teacher Tap: Libraries
Explore Teacher
Tap: Museums
Use Google Earth to create your own experiences:
Create your own virtual field trip using the following PowerPoint templates (right-click and save to hard drive):
- Template 1 - Template 1 Example
- Template 2 - Template 2 Example
- Template 3 - Template 3 Example
- Template 4 - Template 4 Example
Differentiate! Locate a virtual field trip. Where in a unit
would you use this resources? To motivate at the beginning of a unit or review
at the end? Brainstorm ways that you could create a virtual field trip with
your class. How would this help you differentiate in your classroom? Discuss why this activity could
meet the needs of a particular "hard to reach" group of students.
Review
Review the "big ideas" on this page:
Virtual field trips are a great alternative when you can't go to the real location because of cost, time, disability, danger, or an impossibility such as a different time period or remote location.
