VR in School

PHYSICS VR CASE STUDY: Magnificent Desolation (Student Age 9 -13)Inspyro "Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation’ Buzz Aldrin’s description of his impression of the lunar surface is not as iconic or as remembered as Neil Armstrong’s ‘one small step...’ As a child, I watched the moon landings and was in awe of the astronauts, bouncing around the [...]

PHYSICS VR CASE STUDY: The Science of Flight (Student Age 11 -13)Red Arrows. Royal Air Force "A big aim of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team is to inspire the next generation - potential future pilots, engineers and technicians. The Red Arrows is one of the world’s premier display teams and has provided great footage [...]

SCIENCE VR CASE STUDY: Space (Student Age 9 -10)Tablet Academy "This lesson is intended as a hook at the beginning of the topic so no prior knowledge is assumed, although most students will have a basic understanding of the solar system and gravity. This lesson would fit in well to a scheme of work which [...]

SCIENCE & COMPUTING VR CASE STUDY: Polar Exploration (Age 9 -11)Exning Primary School "We start every topic with a ‘sparkling start’ to engage the children; for our ‘Explorers’ topic, we used the ClassVR headsets to look at different environments to immerse the children in such a way that they could really explore and compare each [...]

ClassVR: Sri Lanka Ministry of Education Following a competitive tendering process, Avantis was awarded a contract to deliver 3000 headsets to over 460 schools in Sri Lanka.  The 13 Years Guaranteed Education programme is an ambitious project being undertaken by the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka to improve standards of education across the country [...]

ENGLISH VR CASE STUDY: Comprehension Skills (Student Age 9 -11)Brecknock Primary School "A key focus within our school is to ensure children are given the right tools to become successful readers and are able to fully comprehend high-level texts independently." "​Inference was a clear domain children struggled with across the school when analysing assessment data." [...]

EARLY YEARS VR CASE STUDY: Early Communication (Student Age 3 -4)Fleet Primary School "This lesson took place in a nursery class of 23 children aged three to four; there is a high proportion of English as an additional language and bilingual pupils." "Our baseline assessments demonstrate a low entry level for most children in communication [...]

EARLY YEARS VR CASE STUDY: Cave Exploration (Student Age 5 -6)Kinnwood Central School, Ontario, Canada "Our students first practiced using the VR headsets to explore hot air balloons. This was sparked after reading the story “Not a Box”.  After heavily investigating what a hot air balloon looked like up close, and how it moves, our [...]

SCIENCE VR CASE STUDY: Animals & Their Adaptations (Student Age 6 -7)Avantis Education "This lesson works really well as part of a sequence where students have already begun to think about animals they’re familiar with from their own environment, in small habitats nearby (e.g. a school pond or garden, or even a large tree)." "It’s [...]

GEOGRAPHY VR CASE STUDY: Natural Disaster Strikes! (Student Age 7 -11)Avantis Education "This lesson works really well as part of a sequence where students are exploring what causes different disasters around the world; it enables teachers to expand their pupils’ geographical vocabulary by honing their understanding of the Richter Scale, environmental changes and natural phenomenon." [...]