How to T Virtual Field Trip from the Classroom
How to Take a
Virtual Field Trip
from the
Classroom
Reasons for Virtual Field Trip
lack of funding
lack of time
higher demand of in classroom
learning to improve test scores
Pick a topic that you are studying for
your virtual field trip
Virtual Field Trip to the Smithsonian
Fossils
Science
Lesson Plans Your lesson plans must correlate to
the reason for needing a virtual
field trip
Lesso
n Plans
Plan Ahead Plan ahead in your lesson plans
for your field trip
Get Excited! Get your students excited about the field trip
by reading books that are based on the virtual
field trip destination
Classroom Setting Create a classroom setting based on your field trip
Have your students bring in items to help decorate
Make students part
of the process
Assignments Create classroom assignments
based around the virtual field trip
Brochures Contact where you are basing
your virtual field trip from and
ask if they have any free
brochures to send you for each
student
Have students make their own
brochure after the field trip is
complete
Smithsonia
n Brochure
Parent Involvement
Contact parents for
pictures on the
designated virtual
field trip (they may
have been there)
Souvenirs Get parents involved by having parents
make crafts that students would normally
purchase on field trips
For example, if you cannot visit a coal
mine, have parents collect coal and put in
baggies
Guest Speakers Invite guest speakers from the
virtual field trip destination
PowerPoint Create a PowerPoint
presentation with pictures from
the virtual field trip destination
Video Conferencing
See if your virtual field trip destination
can use web cam to conference and
allow students to ask questions about
the destination
Permission Slip Create a permission
slip in Microsoft Word
and send home for
parents to sign
The permission slip
will encourage parents
and children to talk
about the virtual field
trip
Virtual Field Trip Journal Have students create a notebook to
draw pictures and journal about what
they saw on their virtual field trip
The notebook journal can be used
throughout all of the activities leading
up to the virtual field trip
Follow Up Activities After the virtual field trip, provide
students with enriching follow up
activities
Do not let the field trip be the end of the
learning experience
Assessment Create an assessment at the end of the
virtual field trip
After all, the goal of any field trip is to
correlate to the lesson plans
Summation I hope these tips will help you in your
quest to have an “out of classroom
experience” while in the classroom
Happy Virtual Field Tripping!