Virtual Field Trips and other Distance Learning Opportunities

 

North Carolina Museum of History

We look forward to meeting your students for fun and learning at the North Carolina Museum of History. Bring the Museum to you by taking them on a Virtual Field Trip via two-way videoconferencing. These interactive programs allow students to experience history firsthand. We have a NEW class and an updated one too! All classes meet specific goals of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study Curriculum. All programs are one hour long.

For Elementary School Students

· American Indians teaches students about American Indian communities in our state today through group activities and video clips. Students will learn and share information about North Carolina's tribes and contemporary Indian culture.

· Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Who Works Here? What is it like to work in a museum? Who are the people that take the "stuff" of history and bring it to life? Watch museum professionals in action, and learn about their jobs. Understand the vocabulary of a museum. Play "Museum Jeopardy" for prizes!

· History Mystery focuses on ways that historians unravel mysteries from the past. Through interactive discussions and hands-on activities, students will become historians helping to identify artifacts from long ago. Four different History Mystery programs are available: Colonial Life, Health and Healing, Rural Home Life, and Tools and Gadgets.

· Moccasins to Motorcars is updated! This class highlights the history of transportation in North Carolina. Students use critical thinking skills, handle artifacts, and stretch their imaginations as they follow a transportation timeline and discover the effects of modes of transportation on North Carolinians and their environment.

· Rhythm and Roots of North Carolina Music allows students to learn about North Carolina's musical roots, while making some music themselves. Students explore our jukebox of North Carolina musicians, and will see some of the instruments in the museum's collection.

For Middle and High School Students, explore North Carolina during World War II, with our Don't You Know There's a War On? virtual field trip. Hands-on activities, study of North Carolina World War II participants, and interactive discussions help students learn about life for North Carolinians on the home front and at war.

 

Connecting to the museum: The North Carolina Information Highway is a statewide system of schools and community buildings linked for two-way interactivity through full-motion video. To find a site near you, access a list of Information Highway Sites and contacts at www.ncih.net/operations/ds1sites.html. If your school has videoconferencing capabilities, you can connect directly to our site.  (NOTE: ALL FCS schools have video conferencing capabilities)

For more information: To learn more about how elementary teachers in your school can take advantage of these distance-learning programs, please contact Jerry Taylor at jerry.taylor@ncmail.net or at 919-807-7972. Pass on the attached flyer! We look forward to hearing from you, and meeting your students through interactive videoconferencing.

Sincerely, Sally Bloom, Distance Learning Educator

 

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

Groups of 10 or more can interact with a wildlife specialist through videoconferencing technology at your closest NCIH/NCVIP videoconferencing site. Each course covers goals and objectives from the N.C. Standard Course of Study and includes hands-on activities using materials shipped to your site.

  • For more information, please contact:
Contact Information
Susannah Thompson
1751 Varsity Drive
NCSU Centennial Campus
Raleigh, NC 27606
(919) 707-0206.

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Want to visit the Museum without a long bus trip? Ride the N.C. Information Highway (NCIH) and experience an interactive Museum “field trip” using two-way, full-motion audio and video. The hour-long program comes to you, live and direct from the Museum’s Windows on the World studio. All programs are adapted to each grade level.

Your students interact with a Museum educator who they watch and listen to on a large TV monitor at your closest NCIH classroom site. Students actively participate throughout the program as they work with instructional materials and natural history specimens from the Museum, which are sent to you prior to the session.

To register, contact MT Fore, coordinator of distance learning, at 919.733.7450, ext. 621. She will help you locate the closest NCIH classroom and make arrangements with the site manager for your session(s).