My Virtual Fieldtrip: Exploring the World through a webcam

 Virtual Fieldtrip are a fun and new tool that allows for students to explore the world straight from the comfort and convince of their laptops. Teachers can use this as a fun introduction or expansion of a lesson. Websites such as The Garden State Distance Learning Consortium is perfect for students who want to explore and learn new things without the struggle of not being able to afford or have the time to travel. This is also an amazing tool for projects and allows you to virtually travel anywhere and everywhere in the world. 

For my example I traveled to the Galapagos. From this one website page I could read a brief summary , tour the islands, get information about the climate and oceanography, and learn about the history. 

It is so cool to learn about the history of these islands that contributed to so much of our known information of the Theory of Evolution and how these group of islands came to be! 

What I found the most interesting is the climate and oceanography. A major misconception I learned is that the climate of these islands, despite their closeness to the equator is that they're not that stereotypical hot tropical climate. In actuality, it is cloudy and cool due to the colder water temperature that travels.  The water is actually often described as "tool cool for comfortable swimming". 

It is so cool to have the ability to travel and learn about different places online and I know that this will 100% come in handy in my future lessons that can teach my students history, geography and biology in a fun interactive way!