It’s Friday and welcome to our very first virtual field trip to Turkey! Thanks for joining me for today’s journey that features a geography lesson to get you and your kids acquainted with where Turkey is in the world while providing information about the capital city of Istanbul.
It’s my hope that through the interactive content I’ve created with Microsoft Sway, your kids will scroll through to read, learn, and complete the few extension activities in each lesson become global citizens as they learn about amazing places around the world.
Over the course of the next couple months, I’ll be sharing some of the experiences from my travels each Friday as a way to #WidenYourWorld. Here’s a look at some of the topics that are part of the series. Links will go live as virtual field trip posts are published.
- Art– Ebru paper marbling and ceramics
- Food– 8 Family Friendly Dishes from Turkey to Make at Home (includes simit, irmik helfasi, kebab, dolmas, dondurma, midye dolma, Turkish coffee, spices, and more!)
- Geography– Where in the World is Turkey: Finding Turkey on a Map & Cappadocia’s fairy chimneys and caves
- History– The Silk Road and importance of caravanserais
- Religion– An Introduction to Mosques in Turkey
- Math– Converting money from dollars to Turkish Lira
- Music & Dance– The Sufi Whirling Dervishes
- Science & Engineering– Turkish Airlines Flight Training Center
- Writing– Calligraphy
Huge thanks to Turkish Airlines for extending a very generous invitation for me to join them in flying business class to Turkey and organizing and funding my adventures in Istanbul and beyond. Inspiration for using Sway for my #WidenYourWorld virtual field trip of Turkey came from attending Microsoft’s recent #ChampionsSummit in Seattle. All opinions are my own.
Seriously that is so cool. What a great idea and I have never heard of microsoft sway.
Wow. What a great idea to do a virtual field trip. I have always wanted to go to Turkey.
This is so cool, and a fun way for kids to experience travel to distant places without leaving your own house.
Love this slideshow – what a great way to see another place. I can’t wait to tell my kids about Microsoft Sway. Very cool.
So cool Leticia, virtual field trips sound so fun for the kids. They can create their own bucket lists! Gotta check out Microsoft Sway.
I love the idea of kids creating their own travel bucket list! Sway would make it so easy for them to do this because all they have to do is type in a keyword and it will bring up images for them to click on an insert! Fun summer project!
This is so cool, Leticia! I hadn’t heard of Microsoft Sway before, but really enjoying clicking through your virtual field trip. I even learned a few things 🙂