Skype in the Classroom

Here is a link to two fabulous Virtual Field Trips and two amazing Skype Guest Speakers.  I have also posted the information below:

2 Virtual Field Trips in the Microsoft Educator Center:

1)  “Witness to History: Skype with a Holocaust Survivor” (Ages 8 -18)

https://education.microsoft.com/sciencelab

2)  “Behind the Scenes in a Science Lab” (Ages 6 -18)

https://education.microsoft.com/AHolocaustSurvivor

Additionally, there are many free virtual field trips archived at Discovery Education and a few “live” field trips, for which you can pre-register and then live stream, that are offered throughout the year, on this versatile platform.

http://www.discoveryeducation.surreyschools.ca

2 Skype Guest Speakers in the Microsoft Educator Center:

1)  Children’s author: “Rachel Elizabeth Cole “ (Vancouver, B.C.)

- ages 6 – 12

Microsoft Profile:

https://education.microsoft.com/Status/Public/About?token=b87b312d

Author’s website:

http://www.rachelelizabethcole.com/index.html

2)  Heritage Interpreters of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

- ages 8 -18

https://education.microsoft.com/Status/Public?token=f1h0EVHU

All resources cited are from the Microsoft Educator Center

https://education.microsoft.com/