Discovery Education: Virtual Field Trips

Discovery Education is a virtual learning platform packed with over 180,000 assignable, editable activities and resources for K-12, based on core curriculum concepts and popular topics in math, science, social studies, ELA, and health. Discovery Education Experience has everything teachers want and students need to enhance virtual learning like fun videos, interactive activities and complete ready-to-use lesson plans! The one feature that stood out most to me however was their virtual field trip option. Discovery Education offers virtual field trips for a variety of subject areas, even STEM! You can take your classroom, at no cost, on a number of STEM related virtual field trips complete with a companion guide packed with standards-aligned, hands-on learning activities! Some examples include TeenDrive365 where students go on "road trips" to learn the engineering and science behind safe driving. Or FutureU where students go to the Johnson Space Center to meet the STEM professionals who are writing the next chapter on human space exploration. These virtual events allow educators to take students to some amazing places and give them incredible experiences, without ever leaving the classroom. Students have the opportunity to visit places all over the world and engage in fun hands on activities that follow up the virtual field trip. I love that it doesn't cost anything and you don't have to worry about keeping track of a large group of students as you would with a standard field trip. So if a field trip across the country to visit a Science Center or Space Station is out of the question, or if you are looking for a no cost alternative to a regular field trip, consider checking out Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips.