This post is sponsored by Corning® Gorilla® Glass Despite my former career as a classroom teacher, I believe that there are many educational experiences that happen outside the walls of a school. Teachers can create sparks by building background knowledge about places in a student’s mind through books, websites, and classroom discussions but there is nothing…
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Chronicling the Balance Between Work and Parenting During a Virtual Field Trip in the Desert
This post is sponsored by Corning® Gorilla® Glass Every parent works hard to balance the demands of parenting while keeping up with professional obligations and multitasking moms and dads everywhere need devices that can meet the daily challenges that life throws at us. As a full time working mom, my days are always divided. I enjoy…
Greek Mythology Comes Alive During Family Trip to Olympos Thanks to Percy Jackson
Imagine a place where flames come up out of the ground because of a legendary battle between Pegusus and the mythical Chimera who had the head of a lion, body of a goat, and snake’s tail with the power to scatter flames from its mouth. Over the summer we visited Olympos and neighboring Cirali, magical…
A Family Trip to Turkey: When Virtual Field Trips Become Real
“You must have really loved Turkey to be going there on a family vacation,” friends said to me online and off as they learned of our summer plans. Honestly, Turkey is always a place that I’ve wanted to return to since having first visited with my parents in high school and while I was lucky…
Virtual Field Trip: Ebru Turkish Marble Painting in Istanbul
Painting on water? While it seems almost inconceivable to create a work of art on the surface of water, this is the process of ebru, or Turkish marble painting that may have originated from China’s Tang Dynasty with the earliest examples in Turkey appearing during the Ottoman-Turkish Empire in the 16th century. Regardless of its…
Virtual Field Trip Friday: 8 Family Friendly Dishes from Turkey to Make at Home
“What did you eat while you were in Turkey,” Emily asked with wide eyes right after she gave me giant welcome home hugs. “Everything,” I replied. “Each meal seemed more delicious than the last. Is that even possible?” I wondered aloud, knowing that my meals at home would pale in comparison to those sampled during…
Virtual Field Trip Friday: Locating Turkey on a Map
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…
Virtual Field Trip to Turkey
With each new experience I had in Turkey, all I could think of was my family and how much they would have enjoyed being right there with me. Since coming home I’ve been thinking of a way to teach my children about the many sights, sounds, and tastes of everything I saw, ate, and did…
Visit Palau’s Coral Reefs on a Virtual Field Trip with The Nature Conservancy (5/19)
This is a sponsored post written as part of a partnership between NatureWorksEverywhere.org and We Are Teachers We know that kids learn best when there’s a personal connection created between them and the curriculum. Hands-on learning through field trips provides unparalleled learning but the reality is that not all of us can take a school bus…
From America’s Rainforest to America’s Desert: The Nature Conservancy’s Free Virtual Field Trips Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom
This is a sponsored post written as part of a partnership between The Nature Conservancy and We Are Teachers As a former teacher, I always loved seeing how real experiences contributed to my students’ learning. Hands on activities fostered learning through classroom lessons, field trips took us to local places that allowed us to dive…
