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10 Great Virtual Field Trips to Checkout in 2017

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Blog post by J. Miller of Ditch That Textbook. Includes links to field trips, getting started guides & inspiration from other educators.

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Ed Tech

Imagine your class traveling to see the Great Pyramid of Giza, touring the International Space Station, or having a face to face conversation with a beloved author. All of these experiences are possible through virtual field trips.
Virtual field trips allow us to take our students on adventures we never could before.
They are fun, very engaging and best of all most virtual field trips are absolutely FREE! There are tons of exciting places to go and connections waiting for you and your classroom to make that are already available.

So where are the best places to find a virtual field trip for your class? And what activities can you provide your students to take the learning further?

Below you will find 20 virtual field trip ideas and activities for your classroom. Educators shared ideas along with links to resources so that you can get started connecting your classroom tomorrow!

Check out this Wakelet collection for even more virtual field trips along with our Virtual Field Trip Pinterest board full of resources shared by the #Ditchbook community.

20 virtual field trips for your class

Microsoft's Skype in the Classroom site (SkypeInTheClassroom.com) offers a database of thousands of teachers, hundreds of guest speakers and dozens of free virtual field trips. With contact information. Your class can connect to the world through virtual field trips, Skype lessons, Skype collaborations, mystery Skypes, and guest speakers.

Learn more : About Mystery Skypes and why we need more

With the Google Expeditions app, available on iOs and Android, you can take your class on interactive journeys in both VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality). Through Aquilla Education's website, you can search available expeditions by grade level, subject or location.

Learn more: How to Make Their Learning Go Viral | Interview with Karly Moura - GTP002

Do you want to try diving with tiger sharks? Or maybe parachute jump from 10,000 meters? 360° Cities provides the largest collection of amazing, high-resolution panoramic images of locations all over the world. Some images have sound as well so that the viewer is truly immersed in the experience. Images can be used in VR lessons or on any device!

Nearpod VR allows educators to take their classes on virtual field trips around the world on any device. Nearpod VR works on VR headsets but you don't need to use them to experience a virtual field trip. With over 450 destinations to choose from you can take your kids to so many incredible places! You can also search by subject area so that you can be sure it fits with your class or curriculum.

Street View makes it possible to drop your classroom virtually onto almost any street in the world and walk around. It uses panoramic images that let you turn around, zoom in and walk down roads to check out the scenery. Just grab the little yellow "peg man" and drop him where you'd like to go. (See animation at right.) For practice, try dropping yourself at your doorstep of your school if you've never used it before.

Street View includes tons of "Indoor Maps" where you can "walk around" inside buildings. (Click for the full list.) They include:

TOP TOOL: InstantStreetView.com - Find a location using its search bar. Then share a link with students that takes them directly to the street view you want them to see. Save time!

Learn more: 20 locations to tour virtually with Google Maps Street View (blog post)

Empatico.org is a free resource that connects classrooms through video. Empatico empowers teachers and students to explore the world through experiences that spark curiosity, kindness, and empathy. Aimed at upper elementary school students, Empatico.org is a way for students and teachers to connect to other classes while focusing on sparking curiosity, kindness, and empathy.

Take self-guided, room-by-room tours of exhibits from your device. You can walk through the museum and move from room to room through the map. It's an exciting and fun way to explore one of the most famous museums in the world. Visitors can visit permanent exhibits, current exhibits, past exhibits, take a narrated tour and more!

Once you've seen your school from the curb on Google Maps Street View, take it to the next level with Street View Treks. These custom-produced exploration experiences are awesome for students. They provide information about the location and videos that pair nicely with the panoramic views. Locations include Nepal, Gombe National Park, the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Barrier Reef (a Street View Trek underwater!) and more.

An extension to Street View and Treks is to let students take you on a walking tour of someplace in the world. They do some research and collect some facts about the location first. Then they load up the location using Street View or Treks. They start recording a screencast video (a video of what's happening on their screen with their microphone recording their voices). Some free screencasting tools: Screencastify (my favorite), Screencast-O-Matic and Flipgrid (there are others). Students narrate the tour as they "walk" the streets using Street View or Treks.

Learn more: Google Maps walking tours with Street View and Screencastify

These virtual tours don't have to be confined to what you can see from the street. Google Cultural Institute gives you access to top-notch art collections from around the world ( Art Project) and modern/ancient world heritage sites ( World Wonders). Witness significant moments in history with Historic Moments, giving students a version of a field trip to the past.

15. Mapping fun

Creating or viewing an interactive map with images and information can be the next-best thing to visiting a location, and students can create their own. With Google MyMaps you can take your kids on an educational road trip right from your classroom. In this post by Craig Klement he shows you how to take a road trip with Google MyMaps!

Learn more: 60 ideas for using Google MyMaps in any content area

This game is like a surprise virtual field trip every time you play. Geoguessr uses Google Maps Street View and places participants in a random location somewhere in the world. By panning around, zooming or "walking" down the street, participants place a pin on a map to guess where they are. The closer they guess, the more points they win. It's great for critical thinking and using context clues.

Smarty Pins is like Geoguessr's cousin. Granted, it's a little less like a virtual field trip, but it does use geography-based questions to play. Participants answer questions by dropping a pin where they think the answer is. It's fun, it's academic, and it is geography-focused ... enough to constitute a virtual field trip experience? I'll let you decide. 🙂

Learn more: 20 sites for students with free time on their hands

Part of Google Arts and Culture, The Hidden Worlds of National Parks take participants on a journey through some of the worlds most amazing places. See the Kenai Fjords, Hawaii Volcanoes, Carlsbad Caverns, Bryce Canyon and the Dry Tortugas.

Take a trip step inside 11 dramatic virtual tours some of the most beautiful theaters, concert halls and opera houses in the world. Carnegie Hall, The Colosseum in Rome, and The Sydney Opera House are just a few of the amazing trips you take!

Discovery Education produces some really solid, well produced virtual field trips. They're live and incorporate images, live video and pre-produced video. The hosts answer questions on the spot during the live broadcast from students who are watching. Past virtual field trips are viewable on video (see video to right from Ford's Theatre). Each field trip includes classroom resources and activities that teachers can use instantly. Find them on Discovery Education's events page by selecting "Live/Virtual Field Trip" in the drop-down filter menu.

Tech Like A PIRATE is now available!

10 activities to do on your virtual field trips!

1. Connect with the local community.

If possible try to connect with someone living in the location you are visiting. Utilize the Microsoft Educator Community and see if your class can Skype with someone local to your destination.

2. Create or find an accompanying HyperDoc.

HyperDocs are a great way to immerse students in a unit through blended learning. Why not pair your virtual field trip with a HyperDoc lesson or unit to enhance the experience before, during and after the trip?

3. Utilize pre-made lessons.

In addition to providing amazing virtual field trips, Nearpod also has over 450 ready-to-teach VR lessons!

A3: Again...love the collaborative activities available on @nearpod. It's a great way to follow up after completing a VR field trip. #ditchbook
- Joe Merrill 👓 #interACTIVEclass (@MrMerrillsClass) October 12, 2018

4. Preview or review the virtual field trip with a game.

Kids love virtual field trips almost as much as they love games. Add even more fun to the experience with a Jeopardy-style game, puzzles or a game-based learning tool like Gimkit, Quizizz or Kahoot!

5. "Travel" to a destination more than once!

Who says you can only go on your virtual field trip once? An added benefit of taking kids somewhere virtually is that you can go again and again. Take your students back and experience the trip from a different perspective.

6. Add a stem connection with 3D printing or a makerspace challenge.

After visiting a place have students create an artifact from the destination. Students can use everyday household items to create or take it up a few notches by having them create a 3D object in a program like Tinkercad. If you are lucky enough to have access to a 3D printer students can even print their artifact and share with the class.

7. Take others to your destination with green screen.

Have students share what they learned about a location by creating their own news report. Use an app like DoInk to transport students back to the location of your trip with Green Screen.

8. "Travel" with another class.

Students can become virtual pen pals with classes all over the world through Flipgrid's GridPals. Take your students on a virtual field trip to a famous landmark near your GridPal's location or use Google Street View to visit their town!

9. Have students do offline activities to reflect on and share their virtual field trip.

Get hands-on with activities like writing postcards, creating sketchnotes, making scrapbooks or a creative writing lesson after your trip.

A3: After a virtual field trip, we can take it farther by...let me count the ways:
Create comic Strip highlights or #sketchnotes
Creative writing activities
Create postcards
Create "scrapbook" highlights
(off the top of my head)#DitchBook
- Lᴀᴜʀᴀ Sᴛᴇɪɴʙʀɪɴᴋ #RockNTheBoat (@SteinbrinkLaura) October 12, 2018

10. Focus students with a learning target.

Have a learning target during your virtual field trip allows your students to focus their observations and connect it back to the content. As Brian notes below, be sure to allow for spontaneous noticings too. You never know where your students' observations might take you!

What are your best virtual field trip lesson ideas? How have you used them in class? Which of these ideas could you start using? Leave your ideas in a comment below!

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Guide for running a Mystery Skype in your classroom

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How to Set Up and Run a Mystery Skype Session

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Welcome to The Schroeder Page!: The Three Little Pigs and the Big, Bad, Challenge!

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Friends~We totally took The Three Little Pigs and the Big, Bad, CHALLENGE today and it was AWESOME!

Testing is done finally and my kiddos were super awesome all the way through! Real troopers! To reward them, I decided that I wanted to break away from what I normally do during our Fairy Tale unit and boy did I.

One of my favorite fairy tales is The Three Little Pigs so I wanted to find something great to go along with that theme.
Here is my favorite version of the story!
Click the image to grab a copy!

I checked Pinterest to find a little inspiration and look what I found!

The Big Bad Blow Dryer!

I totally took this idea and made it my own in class!

Check out my kiddos taking on

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Challenge!

We started by reading the book The Three Little Pigs and discussing why the wolf was able to blow down the straw and stick houses and not the brick.

I asked them if they thought that they could build a stronger house.

Grab a FREE copy to go along with this fun Challenge below! Just click the image to download.

Now I threw this together quick but man was it some learning fun.

I took index cards and drew either some straw, some sticks, or some bricks on each card. I partnered my students up and one student choose a card from the bag.

The students then began to plan out their houses.

They had to create a diagram of their house and write a short paragraph about why their house would with stand a powerful blow from the Big Bad Hair Dryer!

I gathered some unifix cubes, popsicle sticks, and I cut up yellow and brown paper into thin strips for straw.

They built their houses!

Then tested their construction!

Yes, I added hair and wiggly eyes to the hair dryer!

The kiddos loved it and I loved it! They were focused. The teamwork and cooperation was absolutely outstanding!

They even took the challenge to lunch and when we walked back to the room they were bubbling with ideas on how to better their constructions.

I saw students who struggle to participate in daily paper and pencil activities shine like never before.

If you have time! Be sure to take the CHALLENGE!
Here is a complete file for The Three Little Pigs that also includes all you need to make this challenge happen in your classroom!
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Skype Presentation | Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives | Stop Human Trafficking in Communities

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Frederick Douglass was the foremost leader of the abolitionist movement that fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures and so became recognized as one of America's first great black orators. The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives provides voices to speak out on social issues, human and civil rights, modern-day slavery and more through a program called, "History, Human Rights and the Power of One."
Fill out the form below the videos if you would like a direct descendant of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington or FDFI officer to do a Skype presentation for your group gathering.

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Skype | 2017 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ Annie Kelley

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Skype | 2017 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ Annie Kelley

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Puppies are the future for an Iditarod kennel. As the 2016 Iditarod draws near, we have been spending a great deal of time talking about husky dogs and learning all about them. We fell in love with veteran musher Matt Failor's puppies this year after his Insider interview when Iditarod veteran "Cool Cat" gave birth to her litter of adorable, squealing newborns. We wanted to know more about Iditarod husky puppies and how they are raised to prepare to one day be Iditarod champions. I reached out to Matt and he shared some personal video with us so we could learn more:

Matt gave us some interesting information about newborn puppies. "They are born with their eyes shut (fused shut). The eyes usually do not open until around 10-12 days. This is one of the reason a dogs nose is sooooo much stronger than ours (humans), because they rely on it from day one, since they are blind. The whining from the puppy will release a chemical in the mom's brain, to begin the flow of milk. The pups instinctually go for the belly to find food. The RACE is on! They will fight for position and latch on to her. Truly fun to watch and educational."

Of course, my students wanted puppies of their own, but since that was impossible, we made our own rice and sock version to learn some husky puppy math and start a dog diary about them. Our source of inspiration was a wonderful lesson from 2007 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ Kim Slade. I loved this activity, and since we wanted to learn more about husky puppies, I brought it back out of the Iditarod archives and updated it this year for my class.

Husky puppies are born weighing 12-16 ounces. Since we are learning about measurement in math class, I decided to test my students and see how close they could make their husky rice puppies weigh 16 oz (1 pound) on a scale with estimation. First, we measured out 1 ounce on a scale to see what it looked like, and feel it in our hands. From there the challenge was to see if we could first estimate, then fill our sock with exactly 16 ounces with rice. We chose a men's sock we liked out of white, black, or gray, then used funnels to fill our sock. Students went back and forth to the scale to measure them until they reached exactly 16 ounces.

Now for the fun part! We used little rubber bands to tie off the head, paws and tail. Some students added a muzzle with an extra rubber band. Then we added a black pom pom for the nose, felt ears, google eyes, and a little pink felt tongue. Students could add extra felt for special markings for a personal touch.

We fell in love with our puppies, and when we were all finished it was time to name our litter. Mushers have a special tradition when naming a litter of puppies in their kennels. We read a great Iditarod post about how this is done, and we talked about what our theme should be. Can you guess? From that theme, each student gave their puppy a unique name. Read our husky puppy names below, and see if you can guess what it is:

Our theme is "Texas" of course! Our puppy names were inspired by the Lone Star State: wildflowers, food, spices, places, and even NASA. What would your theme be? Kim's original lesson plan had a puppy birth certificate, so we created our own.

Matt's puppies have grown up quickly in the last few months. Matt shared with us how he starts to train and prepare his puppies for the Iditarod in the future. In the video below he walks around his kennel with the 14 puppies from Cool Cat who are now 3 months old and weigh 15 to 20 pounds. He explains how he starts walking with the puppies and mom when they are young, but then he walks them alone so they can bond with him. The jingle of a bag of dog kibble keeps them running to him and not wandering off. It is amazing to see them all stay close together and trust him.

What is more fun to watch than Matt Failor's puppies? Matt Failor's puppies in slow motion:

Follow my journey this year as 2016 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™. We have partnered with Skype, and I will be sending recorded video messages daily along the trail to classrooms around the world. Sign up for a free Skype account and then join the "Iditarod Classroom Club" to follow along. Click the link below:

Want to know more about Matt Failor and other 2016 Iditarod mushers and their teams? The name says it all. The ULTIMATE INSIDER gives a school access to everything! All of the benefits of the INSIDER VIDEO combined with the ability to "Track the Pack" with the GPS INSIDER! Access to all of the commercial-free video. Spotlight up to 5 of your favorite mushers and receive email alerts when they enter and leave a checkpoint.

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The National WWII Museum | New Orleans: Learn: For Teachers: Distance Learning: Skype in the Classroom

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A GHO is a video conference similar to Skype. GHO allows you to hangout with other people virtually. You can have up to 10 people in a Google Hangout. What is nice about a GHO is that you can not only see all 10 people on video, but there are add on's to allow for collaboration and fun.

In the hangout the left side has different options that allow you make your hangout more productive and interactive.

The first icon allows you to invite people to your hangout. This works the most smoothly when the people you are inviting are already in your Google Plus circles. You can also grab the URL at the top of the hangout window and email or text the link to allow people to join your hangout. Posting this link on your classroom webpage is an easy way to get students to join your Google Hangout.

The second icon allows for you to have a chat window for side conversations so you do not have to interrupt the person talking or for sharing links and resources.

The third icon allows for screen sharing, which is a great way for demonstrating Web 2.0 tools or doing a web tour together.

The fifth icon is a Google Drive icon. You are able to choose from documents in your Google Drive to have them show in the main window. Participants would click on the Google Drive icon on the side to choose from documents other participants have shared. This is not just a screen sharing of the Google Doc but rather a live collaborative document the participants can type on at the same time. At the bottom of the GHO are the tile images of everyone's video so that you can have more of a feel for having a conversation while working together on the Google Document than you would when simply being in a Google Doc together.

The person talking the loudest will be featured in the main video screen. Everyone else will be tile thumbnails at the bottom. This will cause the video focus to switch as different people talk. By clicking on any one person's tile you can switch the video focus to that person and stay on that person. Click on the persons tile again to return to auto focus.

When using GHO for a presentation and the main presenter is using screenshare you may want to click on the screenshare tile to maintain focus on the presentation.

Thank you Krista Moroder ‏@edtechcoaching for letting me take a picture of our hangout.

In addition to being able to access Google Hangout on your computer there is a Hangout app for your smart phone. The Hangouts will even work over the cellular network. While you can participate in a GHO while driving, this is not advised.

Unfortunately the hangout on mobile is not quite as robust. You are unable to participate in the chat while hanging out and you can not multi-task (leave the GHO app without being kicked out).

Thank you to Robert Pronovost @pronovost for demonstrating GHO on a mobile device.

Optionally you can host a Google Hangout on Air. Be aware that this is PUBLIC and RECORDED. You can not have a private Google Hangout on Air, so if you are wanting to discuss students or other confidential information a GHO on Air would not be advised.

There use to be multiple ways to start a Google Hangout on Air, and I suspect it will be fixed, but for now you must go to the Google Hangout on Air Google Plus page. Go to http://plus.google.com and hover over the left side of the screen so that the menu tray pops out. Choose Hangouts on Air.

Once on the Google Hangouts on Air page, under the featured hangouts is a blue button to start a Hangout on Air.

Once you start the hangout, name it and invite people to participate in the hangout the broadcast will start preparing.

Once the broadcast is prepared it can be found on your YouTube channel. Directing people to your YouTube channel will allow them to see your hangout, however they can only view the hangout they can not interact, participate or be seen in any way.

Before the broadcast will be visible you must click on the start broadcast button.

The embed link next to the broadcast button will allow you to grab the URL to the YouTube video that is live broadcasting or to grab the embed code of the video. Remember these options do not allow people to participate. Allows for lurkers.

If you are wanting to host a GHO on Air as a way of sharing presentations at a conference or between classrooms or as a student showcase here is one way to do it.

Create a Google Plus Community

On the Google Plus Community page there is a box to share comments, pictures, video, etc... Note that the hangout option is NOT an on air hangout.

Click on the text box and you will be given the option to create an event. You will want to do this so as to create excitement about your On Air broadcast in advance of the actual broadcast. Note that you can not pre-make the URL for your On Air hangout.

In the advanced settings of your event creation you are able to choose that this event will be a Google Hangout on Air. The event page will display an On Air icon. This is NOT a link to the On air hangout, it is simply a visual cue for participants that they will need to find and join the On Air hangout rather than be physically in a location.

In the event you can invite people to the event and they can indicate that they are going to attend. Attendees can talk about the event and ask questions before the event or post pictures.

Right before the event you will want to go to the Google Hangouts on Air page https://plus.google.com/hangouts and click on the "Start a Hangout on Air" button.

Click on the embed link in the upper right and copy the YouTube URL (not the embed code).

Go to the Google Community you created for the occasion and choose video in the "Share what's new...." box.

Paste the YouTube URL into the YouTube search and choose the On Air video you are going to broadcast.

This will embed the video into the Google Community page. Note that the video will automatically be embedded and broadcast on your Google Plus page, your followers streams and on your YouTube channel.

In the event you can not embed the video but you can link to it. Simply paste the URL to the YouTube broadcast video into the share something box and visitors to the event page will be able to link to your YouTube broadcast.

Direct participants of your event to your Google Community so they can find the videos being live broadcast (there is a couple minutes of delay) and can comment on the broadcast in the Community. The video will also remain embedded as an archive once the broadcast is over.

Do not forget to START and END the broadcast so that the video recording and broadcast will be captured.

You can delete the recording by going to your Video Manager in your YouTube account.

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