198: Take One of These Virtual Field Trips with your ELA Students

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>As I sat in the warm theater watching my son's sixth grade class recount their favorite memories of school last week, I couldn't help but notice how many of them involved a field trip. Probably 95% of the kids' recollections revolved around special, memorable events that didn't happen every week - a trip to Austria, a trip to the river, a trip to a kitchen space where they learned to cook a lunch and then eat it following a project-based-learning unit on restaurant design.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>I remember field trips from my school experience too - to learn about wolves at Minnesota's Wolf Center in 5th grade, to hike through snowy fields and see the stars on a seventh grade overnight, to examine the inside of a mine on Minnesota's Iron Range when I got older.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>A field trip is a powerful thing, and it can come in so many forms. Today, I want to share some ideas for field trips you can take without a bus, and without a budget. Because I know both can be hard to come by. But that doesn't mean you can't set up some truly broadening experiences for your students from right within your classroom walls.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Let's talk about virtual field trips, because there are a lot more options out there than you might think! Whether they're already curated online, waiting for you to design a webquest around them, or even shared in person over Zoom by a museum curator or an author in their studio.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Visit the sites mentioned in today's show...</p> <p>Link: <a href="https://www.holocaustmuseumla.org/student-tours" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Holocaust Museum of LA Free Virtual Tours for Students</a></p> <p><a href="https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-rich-text-format-boundary= "true">Native Knowledge 360 Education Initiative</a></p> <p>Link: <a href= "https://