Virtual Field Trips: learning beyond the Classroom Walls
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Virtual Field Trip, Reading, WritingAbstract
This paper provides an overview of a holistic approach to engaging students in the readingand writing processes while engaged with a science topic. Recent advances in technologyand internet access have opened up a multitude of resources never before available toteachers and students. Many of these, including Virtual Field Trips can be used to stimulateinterest and motivate students to select their own topics of interest and self direct their ownresearch, reading, and learning (Scott, 2007). This paper presents the exploration and useof Virtual Field Trips as a means of engaging students in researching, writing, and sharingwith others their developing knowledge on the lifecycle of an eagle. The nesting site of theeagles in Decorah, Iowa provides the location for the Virtual Field Trip being reported on.
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