Integration of Virtual Field Trips

The integration of virtual field trips is very important in today's classrooms. All the different places you are able to visit and people you can Skype with, will impact the students and their learning. Using virtual field trips will help expand the class as a whole, it will especially help the visual learners that in the classroom. It will give a good variety in the type of lessons being taught and will help "change things up" because pictures will not do it justice all the time. 
In the Biology classroom, it will be fun to go see different ecosystems throughout the world. There are multiple websites that allow you to go to many different places to expand the horizons of students. In these classes, they will be learning about all these different animals, and it will be an advantage to the students to understand where these animals live. 
There are also websites that show many different jobs in the science world. Exposing students to these different jobs will help them in their future. Many high school students have no idea what is all out there for them to do in the future and where they want to do for the rest of their lives. The science realm in the real world is huge, there are so many jobs out there for people to do that revolve around science, and I believe it is important for my students to understand what they all can do and achieve with the subject.
I believe teachers should integrate virtual field trips into their lessons because it can show the students to a greater extent to which you will ever be able to tell them yourself. Also, having a change in instruction is also important for the students, it also allows for student-led instruction which is also important. Virtual field trips can really bring the curriculum to life. 

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