Google expedition visits Claverdon School

On Wednesday 23rd November Claverdon pupils explored the Pyramids, wandered around our Capital City, discovered Roman ruins, and experienced a lunar landing.  This was the Google Expedition Experience.

To join the Google Expedition experience, a box arrives in school with everything you need to travel: a tablet for the teacher, and cardboard viewers and phones for every student. Next, the teacher selects a destination, and the entire classroom jumps there automatically. You could be in Petra strolling through the ancient city; you could be flying through the universe observing the planets or in the middle of a volcano. You feel as if you are right there! The virtual reality is just amazing as it is so vivid and dramatic.

Children’s imaginations are fired by such memorable experiences. The teacher is in control of the setting using an IPad but children choose where they look. On Wednesday Claverdon pupils explored the Pyramids, wandered around our Capital City, discovered Roman ruins, and experienced a lunar landing.

While nothing replaces hopping on the bus for a field trip, Expeditions enables teachers to take their classes on virtual reality trips around the world, providing an unparalleled opportunity for supplemental learning. This technology immerses pupils in experiences that bring abstract concepts to life and gives pupils a deeper understanding of the world beyond the classroom. These trips are collections of virtual reality panoramas of 3D images and video and ambient sounds, all annotated with details, points of interest, and questions that make them easy to integrate into curriculum already used in schools.

Claverdon children had an excellent day and were truly immersed in the experience of going round the world with virtual reality.  Sienna (Y6) said ‘I really enjoyed it because it felt like I was actually there instead of in our school hall’; Chloe (Y6) added ‘It felt like you were there in real life’.  All the children learned a lot whilst having lots of fun, Stefan (Y3) said ‘I thought it was an amazing experience and I really enjoyed it’

This technology immerses students in experiences that bring abstract concepts to life and gives students a deeper understanding of the world beyond the classroom. These trips are collections of virtual reality panoramas of 3D images and video and ambient sounds, all annotated with details, points of interest, and questions that make them easy to integrate into curriculum already used in schools.

This technology immerses students in experiences that bring abstract concepts to life and gives students a deeper understanding of the world beyond the classroom. These trips are collections of virtual reality panoramas of 3D images and video and ambient sounds, all annotated with details, points of interest, and questions that make them easy to integrate into curriculum already used in schools.