More Virtual Field Trips - 2nd Edition,Annotated by Gail Cooper & Garry Cooper (Paperback)

About the Book

The amazing growth and popularity of the Internet means more opportunities to learn! Responding to the tremendous interest in their previous volume (Virtual Field Trips, Libraries Unlimited, 1997) and to specific requests from users, Cooper and Cooper bring you a host of new and exciting sites for educational field trips into cyberspace. The new trips and topics reflect current curricular requirements and goals such as business, women's history, conflict resolution, and multiculturalism. Trips for physically and emotionally challenged students and for those who wish to get to know them better have been added and there are more sites for physical education, health and safety, rural, and architectural trips. Like the first volume, this book is organized by subject. Together the two books can provide hours of opportunities for educators and students to travel throughout the world and back and forth in time to study natural phenomena and participate in cultural and scientific activities with practicing

Book Synopsis

The amazing growth and popularity of the Internet means more opportunities to learn! Responding to the tremendous interest in their previous volume (Virtual Field Trips, Libraries Unlimited, 1997) and to specific requests from users, Cooper and Cooper bring you a host of new and exciting sites for educational field trips into cyberspace. The new trips and topics reflect current curricular requirements and goals such as business, women's history, conflict resolution, and multiculturalism. Trips for physically and emotionally challenged students and for those who wish to get to know them better have been added and there are more sites for physical education, health and safety, rural, and architectural trips. Like the first volume, this book is organized by subject. Together the two books can provide hours of opportunities for educators and students to travel throughout the world and back and forth in time to study natural phenomena and participate in cultural and scientific activities with practicing

Review Quotes

?Entertaining and informative annotations focus on classroom applications...Most sites can be used to enhance elementary and secondary school curricula. Useful for practitioners, college students preparing classroom lessons, and educators.?-Choice

"Entertaining and informative annotations focus on classroom applications...Most sites can be used to enhance elementary and secondary school curricula. Useful for practitioners, college students preparing classroom lessons, and educators."-Choice

About the Author

GAIL COOPER, a writer and licensed clinical social worker, is a contributing editor of Family Therapy Networker.

GARRY COOPER, a licensed clinical social worker and writer from Oak Park, Illinois, is a regular columnist for several newsletters.