Best field trip ever!
A couple weeks ago, I took my students on a virtual field trip and it was the highlight of my school year! Last fall, I attended a training for Google Expeditions, and promptly signed up to check out a classroom set for a week in March. As the time got closer for the experience with my students, I became nervous. The morning of the first day of lessons, I was very hesitant. I even contemplated ditching this idea and doing something completely different as I just wasn't sure how the lesson was going to play out. I arrived at school early, pulled everything out and started preparing for the lessons. I had visited with the classroom teachers to find out what students were studying in social studies and science, so the experiences could relate to their classroom learning. As I started looking at the virtual field trips, I had a feeling this was going to be a lesson the students would remember for a long time. The first class came in, and after talking about virtual reality