This online fieldtrip is
an interactive site.
You choose the level of activity for your classroom.
Tourist:
Just passing through, checking out the links.
Guest:
Staying for a while, participating in the bulletin
board
Please sign our “guestbook”.
Let us know who you are, where you are from, and a bit about your
class.
Resident:
Integrating the fieldtrip into your weekly
activities, utilizing the lessons and activities. Student participate
in the Honorary Crew activities.
Partner:
Participating in the voyage creating a lesson
plan,
activity, or a country fact sheet.
Credit Option for Partners:
Teachers who are integrating the fieldtrip into
their weekly activities and utilizing the lessons and activities have
the option of signing up for
Great Basin
College
credit. Participation
includes creating a lesson plan, activity, or a country fact sheet to be
posted on the website.
To sign up for credit, please contact Shelley
Patterson 775-753-2272
or register online at http://www.gbcnv.edu
for the following course: EDUC 483 E01 Online Fieldtrips 1
credit
Activities for your students
Honorary Crew: Being internet based, this independent learning
module is completely flexible. Children may register and use on of the
four modules independently from home, they may tackle the challenges as part of a structured lesson in
your classroom, or they may be given independent learning time during the school day.
Country Report extension ideas:
Travel Poster, T-Shirt Design, Postcard, Passport
Students in each group divide the work and develop
either a travel poster or a T-shirt that highlights an important landmark,
museum, or something unique about the country. Students can go to
VirtualTourist.com for information and ideas. Each student designs a
postcard and writes a persuasive letter to a friend or family member
telling reasons the person should visit the country.
Each student designs a passport.
Epals
To enhance their research on the culture of each
country, students contact classes in other countries using ePALS, Key
Pals.
Geo Poem
First, students make an outline of their country on
construction paper, and then they draw eight guidelines in pencil across
the map. Students follow this pattern for the non-rhyming poem:
Lines 1 and 8: the name of the country
Line 2: three to four physical features
Line 3: one to three cultural features; for example,
landmarks,
museums, main cities
Line 4: bordering countries or bodies of water
Line 5: a short description about the climate
Line 6: three historical events that shaped the
country
Line 7: issues or problems of importance; for
example, poverty,
poor land, war, pollution
Culture Box Exchange
Exchange culture boxes containing items pertaining
to your school, community, state, and country to a school in another
country.
