National Geographics Explorer classroom is a tool that allows students to interact with professionals such as “cutting-edge scientists, researchers, and powerful storytellers” all over the world allowing students to connect with Explorers in real-time while making ground-breaking discoveries and what goes on behind the scenes.

Explorers classrooms provide a unique learning experience, providing custom guides for each classroom completely full of fun activities and resources for the students in the classroom or even in their own households.

The useful online tool even allows students the chance to be featured in the live stream with the Explorer allowing the classroom or household to provide any questions for the explorer to answer.

As someone who is striving to become a history teacher, this feature seems like an amazing, fun, and interesting way to engage the classroom. It would be fantastic to allow my classroom the chance to interact and explore parts of history right in the classroom.

For example, students can interact with underwater Archeologist Tara Roberts who is searching for sunken slave ships.

Or Carter Clinton who is using the latest technology to better understand the lives of African Americans during the slave trade through DNA, bacteria, and soil sampling from freed and enslaved people who were buried in Manhattan New York African burial ground.

The idea of allowing my students to see discoveries unfold in real-time is something that I can not pass up.

National Geographic Explorers Classroom – https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/student-experiences/explorer-classroom/