Task:
Find a virtual reality or simulation experience you could implement in your classroom. Make sure it aligns to your standards. Post the experience, the standard(s) the experience teaches or reinforces, and explain how you will implement the experience in your classroom. Do you think implementing this experience will enhance your students’ learning? Why, and how? Or, why not?
Kindergarten Standard:
Standard K.E.3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of daily and seasonal weather
patterns.
K.E.3A. Conceptual Understanding: Weather is a combination of sunlight, wind, snow or rain,
and temperature in a particular region at a particular time. Scientists measure weather conditions to
describe and record the weather and to notice patterns over time. Plants and animals (including
humans) respond to different weather conditions in different ways.
Performance Indicators: Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
K.E.3A.1 Analyze and interpret local weather condition data (including precipitation, wind,
temperature, and cloud cover) to describe weather patterns that occur from day to day,
using simple graphs and pictorial weather symbols.
K.E.3A.2 Develop and use models to predict seasonal weather patterns and changes.
K.E.3A.3 Obtain and communicate information to support claims about how changes in seasons
affect plants and animals.
K.E.3A.4 Define problems caused by the effects of weather on human activities and design
solutions or devices to solve the problem.
Product: https://www.seymourlerhn.com/pricing/
Google cardboard:
https://store.google.com/us/product/google_cardboard
Entry:
Wow! I really love the Seymour&lerhn virtual reality app. You can choose experiences for your students and they can manipulate parts of the VR giving your students an authentic learning experience. I really liked how students could touch items in the app and get explanations. The VR experience I chose for understanding seasonal patters has animals outside and shows the change of seasons for weather, plants, and animals. Students can interact with hibernation, weather patterns, and plant life during all four seasons. I struggle with students having no schema for all four seasons because of where we live, and this VR would really help students develop a deeper understanding of the standards being taught. This app is a developed program with printable activities and options to input different items in each VR with a price tag for the whole school. If it is not available, I will use the free YouTube videos offered by Seymour&Lerhn and opt for a small group set of google cardboard headsets. The downside of the free version is students cannot manipulate the VR just watch it. Without the manipulation it would be more like an augmented reality vs a virtual reality and it would help build schema, but part of the learning process would be missing. When we watched the video with the virtual lab, I really liked how students could manipulate everything and have trial and error without fear of failure. Students need to practice and have a hands-on experience.
Find a virtual reality or simulation experience you could implement in your classroom. Make sure it aligns to your standards. Post the experience, the standard(s) the experience teaches or reinforces, and explain how you will implement the experience in your classroom. Do you think implementing this experience will enhance your students’ learning? Why, and how? Or, why not?
Kindergarten Standard:
Standard K.E.3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of daily and seasonal weather
patterns.
K.E.3A. Conceptual Understanding: Weather is a combination of sunlight, wind, snow or rain,
and temperature in a particular region at a particular time. Scientists measure weather conditions to
describe and record the weather and to notice patterns over time. Plants and animals (including
humans) respond to different weather conditions in different ways.
Performance Indicators: Students who demonstrate this understanding can:
K.E.3A.1 Analyze and interpret local weather condition data (including precipitation, wind,
temperature, and cloud cover) to describe weather patterns that occur from day to day,
using simple graphs and pictorial weather symbols.
K.E.3A.2 Develop and use models to predict seasonal weather patterns and changes.
K.E.3A.3 Obtain and communicate information to support claims about how changes in seasons
affect plants and animals.
K.E.3A.4 Define problems caused by the effects of weather on human activities and design
solutions or devices to solve the problem.
Product: https://www.seymourlerhn.com/pricing/
Google cardboard:
https://store.google.com/us/product/google_cardboard
Entry:
Wow! I really love the Seymour&lerhn virtual reality app. You can choose experiences for your students and they can manipulate parts of the VR giving your students an authentic learning experience. I really liked how students could touch items in the app and get explanations. The VR experience I chose for understanding seasonal patters has animals outside and shows the change of seasons for weather, plants, and animals. Students can interact with hibernation, weather patterns, and plant life during all four seasons. I struggle with students having no schema for all four seasons because of where we live, and this VR would really help students develop a deeper understanding of the standards being taught. This app is a developed program with printable activities and options to input different items in each VR with a price tag for the whole school. If it is not available, I will use the free YouTube videos offered by Seymour&Lerhn and opt for a small group set of google cardboard headsets. The downside of the free version is students cannot manipulate the VR just watch it. Without the manipulation it would be more like an augmented reality vs a virtual reality and it would help build schema, but part of the learning process would be missing. When we watched the video with the virtual lab, I really liked how students could manipulate everything and have trial and error without fear of failure. Students need to practice and have a hands-on experience.