V-Trip Travel Guide

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V-Trip Travel Guide

• Classroom Strategies for Virtual Field Trips

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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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Where Can You Go on V-Trips?

• A rainforest or desert
• The Whitehouse
• NASA
• Museums
• Zoos
• National monuments
• Other countries

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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.

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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

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Why Take a V-Trip (Teachers)

• Meet standards
• Support and enhance existing projects
• Build community awareness
• Quality technology-based activities
• Save money and avoid hassle
• Enrich!

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V-Trip Preparation

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

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V-Trip Hints

• Test your site prior to the lesson!!

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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.

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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.

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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

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Time to take one yourself.

• Use one of the three examples in your packet
• Go to the URL and follow the directions