Primary Schools

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." [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]