3. How does this activity complement your curricula and encourage students' learning in general?
This kind of an activity complements and enhances what otherwise could be a basic skill and drill class or one that is very heavily based on workbooks. An example of the way that activities within an electronic field trip might complement a basic skills curriculum is one that had to do with mathematics. We were working on ratio and proportion and conversion of measurements. There was a map in the electronic field trip, Live from Antarctica, that showed a two-mile limit from base operations, beyond which scientists were not supposed to go. The map didn't have a scale on it but knowing that it was a two mile limit we could use our rulers, we could use ratio and proportion and other measurement techniques, to figure out what the scale was on that map.
