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10
Apr
EARLY YEARS VR CASE STUDY: Cave Exploration (Student Age 5 -6)
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 [...]
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08
Apr
SCIENCE VR CASE STUDY: Animals & Their Adaptations (Student Age 6 -7)
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 [...]
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29
Mar
GEOGRAPHY VR CASE STUDY: Natural Disaster Strikes! (Student Age 7 -11)
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." [...]
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27
Mar
CROSS-CURRICULAR VR CASE STUDY: VR Tour of our School (Age 10 – 11)
CROSS-CURRICULAR VR CASE STUDY: VR Tour of our School (Age 10 - 11)Brooklands Primary School "The overall school topic was “This is me. This is us!” The class were asked what this title meant to them and we decided to make a virtual tour of the school, which tied in with our Design and Technology [...]
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22
Mar
GEOGRAPHY VR CASE STUDY: Under the Sea (Student Age 6 – 7)
GEOGRAPHY VR CASE STUDY: Under the Sea (Student Age 6 - 7)Beatrix Potter School "The children had completed a series of lessons on The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and had been focussing on using imaginative adjectives to describe a scene." "Part of the unit of work was based around expanding their vocabulary [...]
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15
Mar
BIOLOGY VR CASE STUDY: The Human Body (Student Age 10 -11)
BIOLOGY VR CASE STUDY: The Human Body (Student Age 10 -11)Heathfield Primary School "This was the children’s first lesson in their Science topic – The Human Body. The idea was to immerse them in learning which would hook their interest in how various parts of the body functioned and worked." "The medium term plan was [...]
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11
Mar
HISTORY VR CASE STUDY: Experiencing the Trenches (Student Age 10 -11)
HISTORY VR CASE STUDY: Experiencing the Trenches (Student Age 10 -11)Crowlands Primary School, London "This year marked the 100th anniversary of the ending of World War One, and Year 6 pupils at Crowlands Primary School marked the occasion by writing a piece from the point of view of those brave soldiers in the cold, unforgiving [...]
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08
Mar
GEOGRAPHY & SCIENCE VR CASE STUDY: Generation Ocean: Coral Reefs (Student Age 11+)
GEOGRAPHY & SCIENCE VR CASE STUDY: Ocean: Coral Reefs (Age 11+)ANGARI Foundation & Academy of the Holy Names, FL, USA "Using Virtual Reality and 360 film, 3D printed and fossil coral specimens and related lessons, students were introduced to corals and reef ecosystems in preparation for a field trip to the Florida Keys. This served [...]
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06
Mar
COMPUTING VR CASE STUDY: VR Worlds (Student Age 9 – 10)
COMPUTING VR CASE STUDY: VR Worlds (Student Age 9 - 10)Elm Park Primary School, Hornchurch, Essex "The students explored the virtual world and how it can be used in the classroom. Over a period of six lessons, they built their own virtual worlds using CoSpaces. Some of the key vocabulary we explored in this unit [...]
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01
Mar
COMPUTING VR CASE STUDY: Creating in CoSpaces (Student Age 5 – 7)
COMPUTING VR CASE STUDY: Creating in CoSpaces (Student Age 5 - 7)Grange Primary School, London "Students were exposed to Virtual Reality for the first time during their lesson on ‘Space’. They had the experience of viewing the individual planets and the solar system as a whole in 3D. These experiences facilitated the students to better [...]
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