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Episode 3- Virtual Field Trips

2/25/2015

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Virtual Field Trips (VFT) Guidelines:

Planning is Key!

  1. Select a trip which has a clear connection to what you are studying in class.

  2. Plan ahead for your trip:


  • teach a preparatory lesson before the trip (if necessary)
  • preview the site and know the content
  • check all links up to three clicks away from the tour
  • provide step by step tasks to accomplish
  • consider a treasure hunt checklist for students to follow
  • students could gather text and images to make a scrapbook
  • design a webquest which requires students to complete an assignment
  • state a measurable objective for your culminating activity



3.  Be sure to include the VFT in your lesson plans

4. Place a time limit on the trip

5. Be the tour guide - help students pace themselves

6. Consider using a projector and touring as a class (especially if you have limited technology)

7. Consider pairs or small groups if students work on their own

8. Follow through on a plan of assessment for completed student work

9. Have at least one follow-up lesson after the trip



Don’t

  1. Allow students to wander on their own

  2. Present the site without knowing it in detail

  3. Go on a trip without classroom preparation ahead of time

  4. Use VFT’s as an unstructured use of free time

  5. Complete a VFT and have little or no follow-up  - help kids make those connections to their learning

*Adapted from Walter McKenzie’s Innovative Teaching - Virtual Field Trips

Suggested sites for students to blog or share with-

  1. Peardeck
  2. Haiku Deck
  3. Kidblog
  4. Powtoon
  5. Prezi


Virtual Field trips visited today.
  1. 4-H Virtual Farm
  2. www.airpano.com -Himalayas
  3. www.360cities.net
  4. www.mnh.si.edu -Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
  5. http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html
  6. gated.jason.org -Science Virtual Tours- Must have Aldine credentials and overestimate the number of students you teach so that new students don't have to be recreated
  7. Connected Classrooms Workshop on Google+


Other places to look for VFT- Pinterest, Google + communities, Facebook, Google Earth map, street and satelite.


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