Post 21 -A- E-Field Trips

I found this article while i was searching on the Florida Gulf Coast University library system and i retrieved this particular article from the Academic OneFile database. The article is about a series of field trips to caves and the title of the series is:Exploring Nature's Plumbing System: Caves of the National Park System. This is very influential to a classroom, because students do not have to leave the classroom in order to be in a off-campus site. They may not get the same touch or same smell as being in the cave, but they can virtually go anywhere that the cave allows you too and students can research different aspects of the caves. The series explores several different caves and conduct research stalactites, stalagmites, and other areas of Caves. Students in the high school level can definitely benefit from using and viewing virtual tours and i plan on implementing them into my future classroom.

I have chosen this article, because it directly relates to one of my questions posed about the use of technology. My question is "What would be an appropriate and effective way to gather images about a certain country if the students can not physically go there themselves?" I know that this article talks about field trips to caves and my question was to a different country, but i consider that the article links directly to my question because it is discussing virtual trips to a place the students cannot physically go to. I think it is a great tool to use especially for a world geography class, because many students will never have the opportunity to go to these places, but if they now have virtual trips to these places then they can learn more from that experience.

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Source Citation: "Electronic fieldtrip on caves." Education Technology News 23.4 (April 2006): 30. Academic OneFile. Thomson Gale. Florida Gulf Coast University. 1 Apr. 2007