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V-Trip Travel Guide

V-Trip Travel Guide. Classroom Strategies for Virtual Field Trips. What Is a Virtual Field Trip?. A V-Trip is a visit to a specific Web destination to accomplish educational objectives. A V-Trip gives students access to places they might otherwise never get to visit.

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V-Trip Travel Guide

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  1. V-Trip Travel Guide Classroom Strategies for Virtual Field Trips

  2. What Is a Virtual Field Trip? • A V-Trip is a visit to a specific Web destination to accomplish educational objectives. • A V-Trip gives students access to places they might otherwise never get to visit.

  3. Where Can You Go on V-Trips? • A rainforest or desert • The Whitehouse • NASA • Museums • Zoos • National monuments • Other countries

  4. Why Take a V-Trip? Providing access to various forms of technology at the right time can significantly improve the rate and amount of learning that a student accomplishes on a given topic.

  5. Why Take a V-Trip (Students) • Gain understanding through “first-hand” experience • Solve real-world problems • Gain access to places or people • Get a private tour of an area without all the confusion and chaos of a real field trip

  6. V-Trip Preparation • Purpose • Gain information, experience, understanding • Web site addresses and considerations • Plug-ins? • Preparations, materials or people needed • Extra equipment needed

  7. V-Trip Hints Test your site prior to the lesson!!

  8. V-Trip Hints • Introduce the geography of the area and find it on a map. • Use parent volunteers. • Use a projector if not enough computers. • Use the computer lab. • Add imagination to your V-Trip.

  9. Virtual Field Trips Time to take one yourself… Follow the directions on the Virtual Field Trip to Ancient Lands form. Record your answers on the form, please.

  10. Scavenger Hunts • Two types • Published • Original • Two types of searching • Review of one or more pre-selected sites • Hunt using search tools such as Google or Vivisimo

  11. Time to take one yourself…. • Use one of the three examples in your packet • Go to the URL and follow the directions

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