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“Mrs. Tucker, why don’t we go on more field trips?” Every year students ask me this question. There are a couple of answers.
Field trips are time-consuming to organize and plan.
There aren’t always resources (e.g., buses) available to make a field trip happen.
We are limited by our geographic location to the sights/museums within driving distance.
In an effort to expose my students to more experiences, I’ve embraced virtual tours and field trips. In a recent training, I shared “15 Virtual Field Trips for Kids of All Ages,” which has a fantastic collection of virtual field trips, and asked teachers to explore these virtual tours and brainstorm how they could use these online experiences to enhance their curriculum. One teacher asked, “How can you make sure students are paying attention and really learning something from these tours?” I explained that my favorite strategy was to pair a virtual field trip with a scavenger hunt."
