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Just wanted to share that I have started to incorporate virtual field trips in my lesson designs as a means of providing additional schema and background for my students. I am finding that many of the students I work with have minimal experiences and exposure to particular content/topics. Virtual field trips seem to provide them with an authentic means of making real connections. I just had my Essential English 11 class take a virtual field trip to the U.S. Holocaust museum. They were given a personal identification card and traveled through the museum as the person listed on the I.D. card. They were truly able to relate to the person on the card and their views of the holocaust were vastly affected by their journey. They completed a range of tasks at the museum and their culminating activity was to create a mobile highlighting key information about the individual listed on their I.D card. This certainly was far more meaningful than reading about the holocaust in a book. I am wondering if anyone knows of any site that lists optimal virtual field trips in one site? I often search for them based on particular need or content, but was thinking a collective site of virtual field trips would be ideal.
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Cool stuff!
Were they all doing the tour at the same time?
Posted by Josh, on October 10th, 2011, at 7:20 pm. #.