VR in School

HISTORY - Battle of Britain (Student Age 15-18)Stanberry R-II, Stanberry, MO, Gentry County, USA This session allows students who have started the WWII unit to analyze one of the first major battles of WWII. The goal was for students to be able to see some of the vehicles used during the battle and connect that [...]

BIOLOGY: Biological Systems (Student Age 10-11)University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK Very recently, I started to look into the possibility of studying the effect of virtual reality in education, with the aim to analyse the impact that this type of technology has, not only on the understanding of difficult concepts in science education, but also on [...]

CHEMISTRY - Elements & Compounds (Student Age 16-17)State Correctional Institution, Muncy, Pennsylvania, USA This was designed to be an introduction to the periodic table of elements, scientific method and significant figures. The idea was to make chemistry interesting and more concrete as it tends to be primarily an abstract subject. The students were encouraged to [...]

CREATIVE WRITING - Under the Sea (Student Age 9-11)Daviot Primary School, Inverness, Scotland, UK Climate Change / Reduce Plastics Topic. The children are developing their understanding of what is happening to our oceans; many children have not experienced or ever been in the ocean to observe what it should look like. Therefore, as a pre-session [...]

SCIENCE: The Moon Field Trip (Student Age 5-11)Oh Jeong Elementary, Gwangju City, South Korea 2019 was the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing and as a result, I wanted the students to have an experience of seeing the Moon. These experiences were part of our work exploring space and understanding how vast our solar system [...]

ENGLISH: Return to Bude (Student Age 10-11)The Colleton Primary School, Twyford, UK Our Year Six pupils had recently spent four nights on a residential trip to Bude. We wanted to harness their exhilaration from this experience to generate some fantastic descriptive writing which needed to have a factual grounding that would build on their previous [...]

SCIENCE/HISTORY: Introduction to Microbes (Student Age 10-11)British School of Brussels, Tervuren, Belgium We work here at BSB with Integrated Learning Themes (ILT) which link all of the traditional foundation subject in a thematic learning  approach. This term, Year Six were looking at ‘Peace and Conflict’, with a focus on World War One and Two, but [...]

SCIENCE - Sense the Scene (Student Age 8-10)Trevilians Elementary School, Louisa, Virginia, USA Using virtual reality, students were able to explore and describe locations that most students will never get the opportunity to see in person. This in-class vacation helped students to easily describe a setting using sensory words. Students learned the importance of describing [...]

HISTORY: Mary’s Escape from Lochleven Castle (Student Age 10-11)ESMS Junior School, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Following Mary’s arrest, after the death of Lord Darnley, she was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle and forced to sign her abdication under threat of death. With the help of Willie and George Douglas she escaped during a masque May Day celebration [...]

READING INTERVENTION: Happy Places (Student Age 11 -14)Oak Run Middle School, New Braunfels, Texas We have students in our reading intervention classes, as well as English Language Learners (ELL), who struggle with test anxiety. I put together what I called a “Happy Places” lesson of places and things in the ClassVR Portal that they could [...]