Google Expeditions Pioneer Program visited White Oak Elementary School on Friday. The oohs and ahhs echoed down the hallways as students delighted in this visual experience!
Expeditions is a new Google product that allows teachers and students to travel around the world and under the sea on a virtual fieldtrip. These trips incorporate virtual reality panoramas, 360° photo spheres. While nothing replaces leaving campus and heading off for a field trip, Expeditions allows students to travel to the moon, swim with a sea turtle, and visit Mt. Rushmore, all without leaving the building.
To head off on an Expedition, Google sends a school a box with everything needed for travel: a table for each teacher, and special cardboard viewers and phones for every student. The teacher selects a destination, and the entire classroom is instantly transported.