Assignment: Virtual Field Trip

There are times when you will not have the funding to take your class on an actual field trip. With the help of technology, you can now visit various sites without leaving the room. For assignment 4, you are going to plan a virtual field trip for your classroom. Think about the grade level, subject area, possible topics for the curriculum that you teach, and appropriate online communication. You must create an original, virtual field trip. You cannot use someone else’s field trip. Remember, you can utilize various software (PowerPoint, Prezi, etc.) to create this field trip, but be careful, it is not a lesson with technology-assisted software. The students have to feel like they are truly at the location of the field trip looking at the exhibit, animal, statue, and so forth. There should be no words on the slides because it is not a classroom lesson, it is a field trip.

You will be the tour guide, and everything you plan to say as the guide should be written in the comment/notes section—not on the slides. If you take us to the Georgia Aquarium, they should feel like they are standing in front of an aquarium full of gorgeous fish! Furthermore, if you use software that does not allow you to add comments, then you will have to include a Word document with everything you would say as the tour guide for each slide.

Consider the following information in order to complete this assignment. You will be turning in an abbreviated lesson plan with the Virtual Field Trip as a separate attachment.

Grade Level: List the grade level of the students
Subject: List your specific topic
Objective: State what the students will learn
Standards (Links to an external site.)
Materials: List all of the needed materials (include the website)
Activity: Please list the activity in steps
Assessment: List how you will measure what the students know