Lets face it. There just isn't the money to do fun field trips anymore, and even more than that there is only so many times that you can take your students to the local zoo or aquarium before it gets monotonous.
Well let me introduce you to Virtual Field Trips!!!!
Virtual Field Trips are a free resource put on by museums, archives, and companies around the world with the expressed purpose of linking your objectives with their missions. There are virtual field trips for all ages, grades, and subjects. Some even provide lesson plans for you to collaborate with your students and the museum employees.
This year I was able to facilitate quite a few vitual field trips in my schools. I took 4th graders to Washington State to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West to leaarn about animal adaptations from both our region and regions around the country.
I got to take Mr. Baker's 8th grade class to New Orleans to visit the National World War II museum and got to focus on Dr. Seuss cartoons and primary sources since that is what his student's were struggling with.
Virtual field trips offer an oppurtunity for students to hear the information from someone other than you. Let's face it, after a while we can get a little repetetive. Why not let your students travel the worl and learn from someone new!!!
If you are wondering what is out there here is the link to Microsoft's Skype in the Classroom program, where you can search already designed field trips by grade, age or student, or even subject.
Virtual Field Trips are a fun way to take your students to new places to discover new information. Let me know if you need some help finding the perfect field trip for your students!!!
Beth Alderson
DIF
Southern Middle School/ Aberdeen Elementary School
@texteachBeth
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