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“This is a wonderful new format for learning about Oregon Agriculture. I see endless possibilities for engaging studies with our varied producers in this state. Students may never have the chance to be this up close and personal.”
– Virtual Field Trip Participant
If you are an agricultural producer or business owner who is interested in partnering for a Virtual Field Trip, email aitc@oregonstate.edu or call 541-737-8629.
Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom provides Virtual Field Trips opportunities! Take your students on a field trip to learn about agriculture in Oregon without leaving the classroom.
Virtual Field Trips are a FREE, fun and engaging way for students to interact with farmers in REAL TIME! All that is needed to participate is stable internet connection and access to Zoom.
The Virtual Field Trips are 30-45 minutes with the opportunity to ask questions throughout the tour. Length is determined based on grade level and site.
A stable internet connection and the ability to connect to the Zoom.
Before the tour, you will be sent the link that the tour will be streaming on.
Yes! There will be time during and after the tour for classes to ask questions to the farmer, producer or career professional.
Thank you for hosting a Virtual Field Trip!
AITC will handle all of the technology and registration. We will coordinate a practice tour with you first so that we can check reception, video quality, and support you in planning your talking points for the day. We are very grateful to those host sites which are able to donate “inquiry items”, which are physical products from the site that we deliver to a select number of classrooms as hands-on teaching tools. Hosts have donated bags of popcorn, bottles of milk, and wool samples, for example.
We typically start tours at 10:00A.M.. The content of your tour will dictate the grade range in attendance.
On the day of your tour, an AITC staff member will be on site using their device to live stream the video into classrooms. You’ll wear an AITC provided headset, which the coordinating AITC staff member will be speaking to you through. The headset has a mic, which will transmit what you’re saying to those classrooms who are watching.
Classrooms will be watching live, and their teacher will handle sharing their questions with the coordinating AITC staff who is in your headset. Classrooms will be muted, so you’ll only hear our staff speaking to you.
In preparing for the trip, you’ll pre-plan a few stopping points along the tour where you’d like to showcase something interesting about your site. At each of these stopping points, the AITC staff member in your headset will share several classroom-submitted questions. After a few questions, you will move along to your next stopping point.
At the end of the tour, and at your final stopping point, the AITC staff member in the headset will ask one or two final questions, wrapping up with a word of gratitude.
We will end the transmission and the trip will conclude.
