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Accept Exercise Library. Creating Virtual Adventures. Most travelers content themselves with what they may chance to see from the car windows clinging to the battered highways like drowning sailors to a life raft.

Creating Virtual Adventures

Consider locations that others might not have considered for a virtual field trip. Someplace you might consider ordinary might be considered exceptional by people living in another part of the world. Some people walk along sandy beaches, through fields of corn, or under steep cliffs on their way to school every day. Others have never seen these places. Many children living in the country have never see the excitement of a busy city. Often there's not a virtual field trip on a topic of interest. In other cases, you can use archived resources to simulate an exploration. Consider a field trip for your local community or parents such as a tour of your school. The Learning Experience Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

The Project Brainstorm. Explore Options. Creating Virtual Adventures. 8 Easy Steps to Creating Virtual Field Trips. Posted on February 3, 2017 With today’s technology, it is easy to energize the learning environment by providing students with authentic opportunities to see places and meet people previously unimaginable via virtual field trips.

8 Easy Steps to Creating Virtual Field Trips

This year, students in our district have visited the White House, taken a whirlwind tour of national landmarks, and even explored the regions of the great state of Texas all without leaving the classroom, but from the ooh’s and aah’s heard throughout each experience, you would have thought that the students were really there! When I started playing around with the idea of virtual field trips, I found several great resources with trips already designed, but none which actually met the state standards by grade level for which I am responsible. I decided to create a custom trip, so that I could take students on a deeper dive in some areas and provide opportunities for student reflection. Select ‘My Resources’. Choose ‘New”. Pick ‘Lesson’. And, that’s it! Cindy Wallace. Tour Creator.

QR Code Generator - Make your own QR Code. Free. Visualead.com. Five Reasons I Love Using QR Codes in My Classroom. There are so many tools that educators can use to get students interested and engaged in their work.

Five Reasons I Love Using QR Codes in My Classroom

Like most teachers today, I integrate technology into my instruction everyday. I'm lucky to work in a school with one-to-one technology and use iPads with my students throughout every school day. That makes it easy to use QR codes in my classroom -- and there are many reasons I love using QR codes! What is a QR Code? A Quick Response Code is a digital image that can be scanned without the beam of light needed to scan barcodes at the supermarket. What does this marketing tool have to do with education? How QR Codes Can Make a Difference in the Classroom 1.

Visual QR Code Generator - Visualead. Explore over 300,000 free stock photos and royalty free images. TCEAmg.org - Free Resources for Teachers. Super Teacher Tools. A Simple Way to Teach Classroom Procedures and Expectations.

Do you feel like a “talking head” during the first couple days of school?

A Simple Way to Teach Classroom Procedures and Expectations

We know that explicitly teaching procedures and expectations is a MUST for the beginning of the school year. However it’s a lot of information for a teacher to disseminate and for students to absorb. I have this simple little trick to help you cover all of this important information without losing your mind and while keeping your student engaged! When it comes to discussing behavioral expectations, I begin by writing several questions (preferably one for each student). These are common questions that I know will be asked repeatedly by students.

I also ask questions that will direct our discussion to procedures that are important to my classroom management system. I number these questions and give each student one at the beginning of the day. GreekandLatinRootsInteractiveVocabularyNotebookMort. StoryMapVisualStoryElementToolFreebie. Got to Teach Teaching Resources. Most of my experience has been teaching 4th and 5th grades in a self-contained classroom.

Got to Teach Teaching Resources

I have a Masters of Science in Reading, and in addition to being a Reading Specialist, I have also taught at the community college level. In September of 2016, I left the classroom in order to become a full-time curriculum writer. I love presenting my students with open-ended learning experiences. Critical thinking and problem solving are always in the forefront of my mind when planning and/or creating lessons for my class. I also like to incorporate as many cooperative learning opportunities as possible. Yet to be added Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Master of Science Education, Reading Reading Specialist Teaching Credential Reading Specialist Certificate I am a wife to a wonderful and supportive husband, and a mommy to an amazing 6 year-old.