Science Lesson Plans With Classroom Technology

 Every science teacher wants to make sure that their topic stays exciting, fun, fresh and relevant. The last thing you want is to let science get stuck in a rut, sticking to pen and paper, punctuated by a few laboratory experiments. It's always great if your science lesson plans include field trips.

Well, that's one thing in theory. But how many times have you had the best laid science lesson plans "gang aft agley"? Either your school's schedule won't let half the class go out for a whole day on the day you want to, or the weather decides not to cooperate - there's no way you're going to take your class down to study the river bed if it's pouring with rain and a flood is likely. Or else you're just not in the right place to take your students where they can observe, say, a forest environment (because you're in the inner city) or coastal erosion (because you're based in Kansas and the coast is several states away).

This is where you can try fitting something different into your science lesson plans: you can go on a virtual field trip. A virtual field trip is not the same as going on a real field trip and using all your senses - sight, smell, touch, hearing and even taste - but it's the closest thing you can get to the real thing. So while your guitar lessons plans shouldn't totally abandon real field trips (complete with packing jackets and safety warnings, which are part of the fun and the experience as well as being a learning experience in its own right), you should see how many virtual field trips you can fit in.