Virtual Cave Exploring

Preparation

Students are expected to:

• Have some background knowledge on how to draw field sketches
• Have some background on using the HHVR headsets

Teachers should make sure that:

• Devices are charged.
• Students are able to access YouTube videos.
• Students are divided into pairs or groups depending on how many devices are available.
• Slide deck has been checked and the teacher has enabled the deck’s accessibility so students can access them.

• A copy of the Student Digital Notebook has been distributed to students and they have downloaded/ made a copy for themselves.
• Ensure a copy of the Jamboard has been made for students to access.
• Ensure the Sites in VR app is updated before use.
• Ensure teachers are familiar with using http://sketchpad.io

Learning Sequence

1. Recap with students how landforms are made and the different types by asking students to engage with this Landforms Quiz Questions (easier questions) or this Can You Name the Landforms From Their Definitions quiz (harder questions).
2. Ask students to record what they know about caves on this Google Jamboard
3. Direct students to the Sites in VR app on the student devices and then navigate to the Nature folder.
4. Ask students to view the following caves in VR and to complete a See, Think, Wonder thinking routine on the caves.
   • Damlatash Cave
   • Dim Cave
   • Keloglan Cave
   • Zeus Cave
   • Kaklik Cave
   • Bulak Cave

    

5. As a class, watch the following video on how caves are formed (7:20). Students are to take notes in their Student Digital Notebook.
6. Discuss the different features of a cave as a class using the images on the Cave Landforms:Teaching Deck slide deck.
7. Students choose a cave ‘scene’ from the VR experiences they viewed before and draw a field sketch of their chosen cave using sketchpad.io. They need to label it with different features and include an explanation of how this particular cave perhaps was formed. Some research may be required for the labeling
8. Ask students to share their field sketches with another person/ pair/ in groups. Compare the labels and the sketches for accuracy.

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