However, students today can take virtual field trips, anywhere in the world, thanks to the Internet! As a social studies teacher this has opened the world to my students. Here are a few virtual field trips I have used in my classroom.
For example, my middle school students love to visit the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. While the students visit this webpage I have them complete a web quest. As students move from room to room, they learn about the childhood of Dr. King. They learn that as a young boy, Dr. King's bedroom "was always in great disarray. Clothing, shoes, games, and toys filled the room". The middle school students can identify with this situation...
The URL for the MLK birth home virtual website is http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0001/BirthHomeTour/. Also, if you would like to have students complete the web quest the URL for this, it can be found at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Middle-School-Martin-Luther-King-Web-Quest-1616393.
So, in honor of 150th death of President Lincoln, I have for you the virtual field trip to Ford's Theatre. Students can not only see the view from the theatre box where President Lincoln was assassinated, but they can learn about what happened when Booth's spur caught a flag when he jumped from the box. Click on another screen and students can view the hand gun Booth used in the assassination. This same website has many primary source materials for students to exam. The website allows students to maneuver their view up, down, right, and left so they can "look" around the Ford's Theatre from the perspectives of the stage.
All in all, this is a pretty interesting and helpful website for you to share with your students. The URL for the virtual website is http://www.fords.org/sites/default/files/virtualTour/index.html.
Finally, if you know of any virtural website you use in your classroom, please feel free to share.
See ya!
JM
No comments:
Post a Comment