Discovery Education is a tool that allows students to travel without ever leaving their desks. This program is great to implement in a History or Social Studies classroom. Traveling is vital in education, however, not everyone has the resources to travel frequently, if at all. Many schools do not have the funding for field trips, but with Discovery Education, all students can have equal access to the benefits of travel.
Discovery Education has both live and on-demand virtual field trips. The on-demand feature allows teachers to use the same source for every class. The program includes multiple on-demand field trips involving important sites for teaching Social Studies or History to high schoolers. These trips include The City of U.S., 9/11: Day of Service, Magna Carta: The Story of Our Human Rights, and many more.
These virtual field trips with Discovery Education can be implemented into a history or social studies classroom to give students a visual source of learning. These field trips can be used to teach students about the White House, historical events, important documents that shape our world, and more.
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Samantha Pollina
Hi Samantha! This is an awesome blog post. I think it’s amazing what Discovery Education is doing to enable students to see some of the amazing, informative things in our world without breaking the school budget. It’s so important for students to see what’s out there in the world and this is a great tool for them to get informed and entertained while gathering a love for different things the world has to offer.
Discovery Education looks really promising, thank you for thoroughly explaining how this tool can be used for school districts without the proper funding to go on physical field trips. I also appreciate how you explain that the virtual trips go through the locations like a story, as if actually being at the site and reading the plaques.