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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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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