Tours

Virtual Field Trips

Cultural Exchanges

Students share via e-mail list web site information about lifestyle, local events and celebrations, customs, dress, language, school and work.

Teachers locate partners via the vft-teachers e-mail list then organise rap points for their students to discuss and share information.

Episodes might be one class- one class or involve multiple classes. If multiple classes are involved an e-mail list can be established.

Example

Netdays Cultural Journey Into Australia

Rap Point Suggestions

Rap points are a series of questions that are posed to students to assist them share information and gain insight into the culture of a remote location.

Rap points should be designed to move students from lower order thinking to more in depth consideration of the task at hand. Bloom's taxonomy is a useful tool to ensure that questions are structured in such a manner.

eg. Upper Primary/Lower Secondary Cultural Exchange Virtual Field Trip

Rap Point 1

Following class activities on cultural differences within your class share with your virtual field trip partner several points that you have learnt on the difference lifestyle, language and customs of students in your school.

Rap Point 2

Share the life stories of a selection of people in your city/town.

Optional extra activity

Build a web site with photos and stories about your town. Add to it year by year as the activity is done with different classed

Rap Point 3

How does cultural difference enriched life in your town?

Optional extra activity

Add links to the web sites developed by your virtual field trip partners.

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