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MODULE 6 – The Signature Assignment for This Course

Task 1 – Link (URL) To Your Weebly Website

Task 2 – Virtual Field Trip Questions
Task 3 – Virtual Field Trip Examples

Task 1. Weebly Website Link

https://edtechmellick.weebly.com

Summary of Task 1
Copy your Weebly website URL, then paste is in the space above – that is it! There are more tasks…keep reading
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Task 2. Virtual Field Trips

What Is the Purpose of This Task?
To become familiar with virtual field trips.

What Is A Virtual Field Trip?

When you become a teacher, you may want or need to take your students outside of the school on a field trip. While this can be quite rewarding for the students,
field trips are often very difficult and expensive to set up and execute. Here are just some of the things you will need to handle:

Permission slips
Approval from the administration
Buses/transportation
Setup with the venue/event
Volunteers
Paperwork
Funding
Etc. – the list goes on and on…

One way to expose your students to people and/or events outside the school is by conducting what is known as a virtual field. Your mission is to use the Internet to
research virtual field trips, then answer the three questions below.

What Are Virtual Field Trips? Use Your Own Words – Do NOT Just Copy/Paste This Information.
A virtual field trip is just what it sounds like. It is a trip taken virtually! The best ones are free, and
educational.

What Are Advantages of Virtual Field Trips?

There are many great advantages of VFTs. The best ones would be that they are usually free.
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They cater to ALL students, regardless of abilities. They often give us opportunities that we never
would have been able to experience.
What Are Disadvantages of Virtual Field Trips?
It requires the use of technology. This would be a hindrance on a person who does not have
access, or is unable to operate technology devices.
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Task 3. Study Skills Strategies

What Is the Purpose of This Task?
The purpose of this task is for you to learn about the many virtual field trip opportunities available to educators in most, if not all grades and subjects. There are
many different types of virtual field trips. Some are simple videos that students watch, while others can be guided and interactive through video conferencing or
other electronic systems – and everything in between. The point with this task is to have you explore what is out there.

What You Need to Do…

Using the Internet, find three virtual field trips that could relate to the grade and/or subject you may teach in the future. Answer the questions below for each field
trip. Think about what grade/subject you might teach, then go out and find three virtual field trips that might relate to your class/grade/subject. If you can’t find
something that aligns perfectly, get creative. If you don’t know what grade/subject you will teach, that is OK, it’s ok to guess at what you might teach in the future.
The main goal for this task is for you to start to see that are a lot of virtual field trip options out there.

Virtual Field Trip 1.

What Is the Name/Title of This Virtual Field Trip?
The Seattle Aquarium

Where Did You Find This Virtual Field Trip? What Website?
https://www.seattleaquarium.org/experience-aquarium-anywhere

Why Would Your Students Benefit from This Virtual Field Trip?
This is beneficial because the students could learn about ecosystems, and marine biology from our
classroom. Our students might not ever leave Idaho, much less go to Seattle to the aquarium!

How Could You Use This Virtual Field Trip to Help You Teach Your Lesson? In Other Words, Think About How
You Would Use This Field Trip to Teach Something and/or How Would You Incorporate This into A Lesson?
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I have a few lesson ideas from this lesson. The life cycles and food chain lesson would be really
interesting. We could do a lesson on ocean water, and life in those oceans that most people never
even know about!

Virtual Field Trip 2.

What Is the Name/Title of This Virtual Field Trip?
Volcanoes in Alaska

Where Did You Find This Virtual Field Trip? What Website?
https://avo.alaska.edu/activity/Spurr.php

Why Would Your Students Benefit from This Virtual Field Trip?
Again, most students will never go to Alaska in their lifetime. It is a way to travel, and explore
through our own comfort zones.

How Could You Use This Virtual Field Trip to Help You Teach Your Lesson? In Other Words, Think About How
You Would Use This Field Trip to Teach Something and/or How Would You Incorporate This into Your Lesson?
Terrain, and geography lessons would be a great resource for this tool. I would allow my
students to explore Alaska and tell me something that they find different. This tool can be used with
many other states as well.

Virtual Field Trip 3.

What Is the Name/Title of This Virtual Field Trip?
The Smithsonian in DC, specifically the National Museum of Natural History
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Where Did You Find This Virtual Field Trip? What Website?
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

Why Would Your Students Benefit from This Virtual Field Trip?
It is incredibly educational. Students would be able to see a huge museum in DC that explores
concepts we learn in our room.
How Could You Use This Virtual Field Trip to Help You Teach Your Lesson? In Other Words, Think About How
You Would Use This Field Trip to Teach Something and/or How Would You Incorporate This into Your Lesson?
There are so many great lessons to pull from this. Students could explore the exhibits, and
research parts they found most interesting. Natural History can be tied into most lessons almost
anywhere!

Summary of Task 3
Find three examples of virtual field trips related to virtual field trips