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How to Use Google Maps as a Tool for Project-Based Learning

11/8/2022

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How to create lesson plans for project based learning geography using Google Maps
I am never the most tech-savvy person in the room. There is so much out there and it's always evolving. It's tough to know where to start and just when I feel I've gotten it, everything changes.

Education technology can be intimidating and time-consuming to learn. Time isn't something teachers have in abundance. But it gets easier and more user-friendly everyday, and Google Maps is one such tech that PBL students can highly benefit from.
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20 Learning Activities for Road Trips that Engage Educational Travelers

5/3/2022

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'Tis the season for road trips! Whether it be a spring camping trip with students, a summer road trip with your own children, or a cross country trip with just you and your dog, take full advantage of learning activities for road trips along the way.

​Learning is powerful beyond the walls of a classroom. Hitting the road opens doors to learning experiences that couldn't be achieved in a classroom.

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7 Affordable Travel Options for High Schoolers

5/25/2021

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Want to get your high schooler traveling with a volunteer or educational group? Check out these eight cost-friendly options.
My family of four has traveled like crazy the past few years. We've been to seven National Parks, flew to Copenhagen, took a handful of long distance road trips. It has been absolutely exhausting. No question. But I don't regret any of it. 

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Guide to Student-Planned and Led Educational Trips

5/24/2021

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Educational travel changes student lives. The benefits of school trips or homeschool travel experiences are vast and even more so when the students plan the trip. Give 21st-century learners the opportunity to learn content AND build skills through travel planning. Find out how right here.
The bulk of my experience as an educator was at a school that was student-centered, travel-encouraged, and predominantly project-based. Combine all three and you have student-directed school trips. The benefits of educational travel are enormous! I highly encourage reading on!​

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Ten Free Educational Travel Resources

5/23/2021

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Free educational travel resources for school trip, homeschool travel, and youth group travel.
My husband and I made an educational travel goal of visiting every US national park as a family before our children turn 18. We have been to so so many great ones - Zion, Bryce Canyon, the Grand Canyon, the Great Smoky Mountains, Pictured Rocks National Park, The Badlands, and Rocky Mountains National Park - but we still have a long way to go!​

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Steps in Project-Based Learning for Educational Travel Adventures

5/21/2021

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How to combine project based learning example with high school educational travel such as school trips and homeschool travel.
I have been involved in educational travel for over a decade - traveling myself, coordinating our high school's travel program, and now building resources for and offering tips to homeschool traveling families, summer high school travel programs, school travel programs, youth groups, and more.  This passion and love for learning through travel started in Costa Rica. 

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What are the Benefits of Educational Travel?

5/18/2021

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What are the benefits of educational travel from school trips to homeschool travel?
The benefits of educational travel are invaluable. I have seen the impact that travel has on students from school travel groups, traveling homeschool families, and youth groups. I have experienced this impact personally and have watched how travel has affected my own children.

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Project-Based Learning Ideas for Student Travelers

4/19/2021

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Educational travel project based learning lesson plan ideas
Has anyone else binge-watched "Down to Earth" on Netflix? If you haven't, do it! Down to Earth is a 5 star example of project based learning on the road and/or abroad.

Zach Efron (yes, I know), travels around the world focusing his energy on ONE global issue. For example, he visits Paris, where he dives deeply into the issue of clean and healthy drinking water. He talks with engineers, city planners, and local political figures. He talks with locals and visits a water treatment facility.

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21st-Century Skill Building Through Travel

5/28/2019

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Summer is almost here! You'd never guess it by today's forecast in MN, but it's on the horizon! Parents and educators, use summer travel as an opportunity for your students to develop important 21st-century skills. Travel presents opportunities to build on these skills by nature, but there are also some tricks to deepen the learning experience! Check those out on my new blog post.

Building 21st-Century Skills Through Travel

The 6C's of education, developed by Michael Fullan, include creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, citizenship, and character.

​These competencies are essential for today's learners to be successful in the 21st-century. It is more important (in my opinion) for educators of today to provide opportunities for students to practice these skills than it is to teach content matter. It's great to have both, but ignoring 21st-century skill building doesn't do anyone any favors.

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High School Biology Trip: Costa Rica

2/25/2019

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A few years ago I traveled to Costa Rica with my high school biology students to study living things in one of the top biodiversity hotspots in the world. A student traveler and I kept a blog on the experience. I reposted that blog on Experiential Learning Depot in hopes that you will be inspired to incorporate travel into whatever learning environment you're a part of.
Several years ago I traveled with some of my high school students to Costa Rica to study tropical biology. The purpose of the trip was to experience biodiversity and a culture different than their own first-hand. I often write about the benefits of educational travel.

​There are many reasons to incorporate travel into school or homeschool curriculum - enhance worldview, gain content knowledge, build 21st-century skills, make lifelong friends- among other things. Check out 
6 Reasons to Start an Educational Travel Program for more. 

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