Around the World In A Day: Virtual Field Trips

Presented by Arischa Conner and Ruth Savinda

Richland School District OneColumbia, SC 29210

What is a Virtual Field Trip?

A virtual field trip is a “trip” taken by viewing pictures, videos and/or audio clips, and reading information provided with the “trip” opposed to visiting a place physically or just using a textbook as a resource.

What is a Virtual Field Trip?

• designed to be entertaining and educational

• can be online or via videoconferencing

• allows students to visit an actual site through the use of internet technology

• encourages and engages students and supports standards based curriculum

Advantages of Virtual Trips

• Cost effective• You can travel to exotic placeshttp://

www.panoramas.dk/moon/mission-apollo.html

• Engage students by showing them a different perspective other than the text book

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/

Advantages of Virtual Trips

Take them places they won’t have a chance to actually go to….

http://kitses.com/animation/swfs/digestion.swf Or just take your students on a

trip that reinforces concepts that you may be covering in class

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/

Different types of Virtual Field Trips

Media Centerwebsite

Virtual Cellvideo

Dinosaur DigInteractive site

US Supreme CourtInteractive panorama

PanoramasPanoramic photography is a format of

photography that aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view or any wide view of a physical space.

There are panoramic photos, as we have already seen that are interactive and give a 360 degree view of an image.

Information retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_photography

How do I integrate virtual field trips into my classroom?

SC.SS.7.5.6 - Summarize the Holocaust and its impact on European society and Jewish culture, including Nazi policies to eliminate the Jews and other minorities, the \"Final Solution,\" and the war crimes trials at Nuremberg. (H)

• http://remember.org/auschwitz/• http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.ht

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You can find various virtual trips that will allow students to visit places to

reinforce what you have taught in the classroom.

Interactive sites

There are several sites that offer virtual explorations of information that you may be covering in class.

Yellowstone National ParkLewis and Clark

Froguts

How do I find a virtual field trip?

There are hundreds of virtual field trips on the web and sites that have links for different types of virtual trips:

Geography for KidsThe Apollo Missions

SurfaquariumFortune CityEduscapes

Travel PlansAs you begin to plan for your virtual field

trip, keep these tips in mind:Be sure your trip is connected to the

standardsPlan aheadPreview sites, check linksPlace a time limit on your VFTBe the tour guide

Let’s Take a Trip!

The Underground Railroad Standard 7-1The student will demonstrate an understanding of the colonial expansion of European powers and their impact on world government in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. SC.SS.7.1.4 - Summarize the characteristics of European colonial power and explain its effects on the society and culture of African nations, including instances of participation in and resistance to the slave trade. (H, G, P, E)

Articleshttp://

www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=13100791

http://www.edutopia.org/virtual-field-trips

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech071.shtml

Be creative

Create your own!

http://www.field-guides.com/http://jogtheweb.com/