Social Studies

Interactive virtual field trips are designed for students in grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11/12.

Social studies teachers teach students to be thoughtful, engaged individuals who can navigate the abundance of information about societies, governments, history, and current events. You want to teach students to draw inferences about what they are learning so they can make their own thoughtful decisions about policy, politics, and ethics. Our field trips can help you achieve this incredibly important task.

Let's bring this to life with two examples:

  1. You are teaching your students about cities and their relationship to society. Rather than rely solely on textbooks or other traditional forms of didactic material, you can also take them on E2 trip ‘Building Blocks : See What Your City is Made Of’ or the ‘The Future of Transportation: Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Cities’ field trip, or both! These field trips provide context for students to ask questions relevant to your curriculum about the role of a city in society, urban planning, urban culture, class issues, and many more.

  2. You are working on students’ global skills and concepts such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, problem solving, and communication. Because all of our field trips address global skills and concepts you can bring your class on any field trip to develop their cross-curricular competencies.

See how each of our interactive field trips connect to the curriculum, global skills and concepts, SDGs, and careers on our Events Schedule page.

What you can do before, during and after a field trip

With every field trip you will receive a package containing educational materials including a system map, a mind map, questions, prompts, and challenges to scaffold discussions, projects and continued learning that is level-appropriate for your students.

    • Provide context around the topic and frame the related problems for your students

    • Perform formative assessment around related concepts

    • Scaffold the experience with some questions that are level-appropriate for your students

    • Awaken their curiosity!

    • Encourage questions

    • Take full advantage of the interactive nature of the field trip

    • Mindfully highlight links between the information shared and your curriculum

    • Guide students in a post-trip discussion using the educational materials we provide including design challenges and career exploration opportunities.

    • Explore opportunities to reinvest conceptual learning in new contexts

    • Revisit the learning as often as possible during curricular teaching time to consolidate learning

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