Product Description
VictoryVR
Kendall Hunt is a partner of VictoryVR, a state-of-the-art virtual reality science curriculum that opens the world of learning to endless possibilities. The curriculum is NGSS-aligned and can be used as a supplement to any science curriculum.
Students can take virtual field trips to places such as Redwoods Forest, California; Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and take an interactive tour of a human cell through virtual reality science curriculum.
Twenty-four modules are available now. Each module includes five experiences for students: virtual field trips, interactive 360 activities, movies in a virtual theater and assessments connected to the cloud. Existing modules created previously include America’s Lakes and Rivers, where students experience a barge on the Ohio River and the importance of clean waterways as well as a 255-acre marsh in Iowa.
In The Sun & Solar System students are guided through the inside of the Astrophysical Research Consortium 3.5M telescope, where the public is never allowed to go. Here students learn about how the telescope and lens function while watching the apparatus prepare for use. Students also get to experience traveling the solar system viewing the planets, sun and moon at their own pace.
How It Works
VictoryVR modules and the experiences within each transport students to a variety of places that will deepen their understandings of science. Virtual reality supports the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) standards by designing and developing digital learning experiences to facilitate and improve learning, communication and collaboration, creativity and innovation, information and technology literacy, daily attendance and test scores.
There are six topics for grades five and six modules, each covering these NGSS topics: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth & Space and Engineering. Five topics are available for grade seven modules while seven exist for grade eight modules.
Not only is VictoryVR a compliment of any existing technology-rich science curriculum, if this type of environment doesn't exist, it's a great first addition to that goal. And, one license covers all middle school grade levels.
