Touring National Parks in the digital era.Last April, 37 million schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school made history with technology as they participated in the largest simultaneous virtual national park visit ever. Students from 49 states and seven countries explored the history, science and geology of caves in their "visit" to Carlsbad Caverns National Park Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 46,766 acres (18,940 hectares), SE N.Mex., in the Guadalupe Mts.; designated a national park in 1930. These connecting limestone caves, with remarkable stalactite and stalagmite formations and huge chambers, began forming 60 million in New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). . The trip is part of Ball State University's Electronic Field Trip program, which combines a Web site, classroom activities and live television broadcasts. The university and its partners, the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service, helped educators prepare for and extend the virtual trip with online, multidisciplinary, standards-based lessons and activities. Upcoming electronic field trips will delve into the science of speed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (a separate town completely surrounded by Indianapolis) in the United States, is the second-oldest and visit the Manzanar War Relocation Center relocation center, in U.S. history, camp in which Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. Fearing a Japanese invasion, the military leaders, under authority of an executive order, defined (Mar. to relive the experience of interred Japanese Americans. Educators also can view dozens of archived broadcasts online. www.bsu.edu/eft |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion