Kindergarteners will be taking a virtual tour of Mexico City on the Travel Impressions Web site, complete with short explanatory videos.
Next, we will read the folktale called The Beaver Names the Sun and we will create own own artistic versions of The Sun in Paint, complete with our own "names."
First Grade
In first grade, we will be taking a virtual tour of Hong Kong, using the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia's built-in Virtual Tours. We'll act as photojouralists, keeping track of interesting things we have seen by for those images.
In second grade, we'll use Encarta Encyclopedia's Quick Facts to learn some basics about Thailand. We'll keep track of what we've learned by using our worksheet. Then, we'll take a virtual tour of a special Buddhist shrine in Thailand. Students will also complete the photojournalist worksheet.
In third grade, we will use the Time for Kids Going Places Web site to experiment with Portuguese, the national language of Brazil. We will listen to common phrases spoken in Portuguese and then we will record those sounds ourselves both in English and Portuguese using the "Sound Recorder." We'll save these files into our own folders on the file server.
Fourth Grade
In fourth grade, we will learn about the legend of the Russian Princess Anastasia. As a class, we will read the last few fictional "diary entries" from Carolyn Meyer's book "Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess." We will also discuss how the movie Anastasia theorizes that she became an orphan. Finally, each student will decide what he or she thinks happened to Anastasia and will create a visual representation of that possibility using Storybook Weaver software. We'll read each others' endings.
Fifth Grade
In Fifth grade, we will begin by learning a bit about South Africa by taking a virtual tour of one of the biggest cities, Cape Town. Students will take notes and answer questions about what they see by completing this worksheet below. Soon after, we will begin making our very own travel commercials. We'll start by watching some examples of travel commercials on YouTube. Then, we will collect images into our own folders and import them into Windows Movie Maker. From there, we'll write a script for our commercial and use the tools in Windows Movie Maker to produce 1 minute commercials of our own.
virtual field trip.doc
Quick Facts About Thailand.doc
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