Virtual+Field+Trips

= What is a Virtual Field Trip? The Web-2.0-Quest = = What happens when students co-develop content? learn through the creation process address his/her learning styles A Virtual Field Trip is an interactive lesson format in which students are responsible for building and exploring their collaborative understanding of a concept.

What does the teacher do?

 * Identify a topic/subtopics/destinations for the virtual field trip. || [[file:VFT planner.doc]] ||
 * Create an appealing and descriptive home page for the virtual field trip. || Sample Home Page ||
 * Create links/blank pages for the various stops along the field trip. || Yes, it's this easy ||
 * Create a rubric to guide student creation of the field trip destinations. || Sample Social Studies & Humanities Rubric ||
 * Provide instruction on editing a wiki || Sample How-To Page ||
 * Provide questions which should be answerable by visiting each destination || Sample Questions-2-B-Answered ||
 * Tips for Differentiation || Differentiation Tips ||

What do the students do? The hard part!
Create an appealing web presence for assigned destination following guidelines of rubric

Sample Virtual Field Trips created by JCPS teachers
-Betty Crenshaw || US Geography -Tim Chapman || Progressivism -Ron Forgie || -Catha Hannah || Exploring the Internet -Carla Fentress || Louisville Employers -Clay Harned || -Stephanie Kerby || Mean, Median, Range -Charita Kimbrough || Iraq War -Mark Huslewede || -Melanie Santiago || -Lisa Johnson/Melisa Gano ||
 * ** Elementary ** || ** Middle ** || ** High ** ||
 * Colonial America
 * Kentucky
 * Ecosystems
 * ||  || The Great Depression and New Deal
 * ||  || Visual Arts Example