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Virtual Field Trips
Across the Curriculum
What is a Virtual Field Trip?
A digital experience that
moves us through space
and time to events,
people and places
throughout human and
natural history.
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Effective Virtual Field Trips…
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
• Provide inquiry-based learning
• Touch all learning modalities
• Can be accessed anytime
Go on a Virtual Field Trip!
• Ancient Civilizations British Museum
• Blues Journey The Kennedy Center Arts Edge
• Welcome to Ellis Island Scholastic.com
• Mt. Saint Helens Crater Summit
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Essential Question & Learning Task
Develop questions
that require analysis,
interpretation, inference
and synthesis
Why?
How?
Which?
Create a Great Virtual Field Trip
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Elements of a Virtual Field Trip
Essential Question and Learning
Task
Information Resources
Student Activities
Assessment Activity and Rubric
Enrichment Activities
Instructor Support Materials
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
• Text
• Images
• Video
• Audio
• Narration
• Live Web Cams
• Primary Documents
• Maps
• Data
• Interactive Activities
• Simulations
• 3D Panoramas
Media for Virtual Field Trips
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Packaging a Virtual Field Trip
• Think of this as the suitcase that holds all
the resources
• Lots of ways to “package” a virtual field
trip; depending on the tech skill level of
the instructor and students
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Easy Tech Skills
• Digital Word Doc or PDF with links
• PowerPoint with links
• Shared folder with web links
Packaging a Virtual Field Trip
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Intermediate-to-Very Techie Skills
• Delicious
• Google Sites
• VoiceThread
• MuseumBox
Packaging a Virtual Field Trip
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
• Google Maps
• Google Earth
• Prezi
Evaluating a Virtual Field Trip
• Is this a quality presentation?
• Is information current and accurate?
• Are support materials appropriate?
• Is this a good use of the Web or
would a video, book, or other tool
be as effective?
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Copyright-Free Resources
U.S. National Park Service
• Photos and Multimedia
• History and Culture
• For Teachers Section
• Podcasts
• Web Cams
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Library of Congress
Photographs
Video
Audio
Music
Interviews
Documents
Maps
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
San Francisco City Hall
after the 1906 earthquake
American Memory
• Multimedia Gallery
• Classroom Resources
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
National Science Foundation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• NOAA Central Library
• Education Resources
Panorama Resources
• The New Seven Wonders of the World
• Mt. Saint Helens
• Chichen Itza
• California Missions
• Stonehenge
• The Alhambra
• The Great Wall of China
Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education apeshette@placercoe.k12.ca.us
Share your virtual field trip!