Creating Virtual Fieldwork Experiences as Professional Development

Updated March 31, 2014

This post is an overview of both how creating Virtual Fieldwork Experiences (VFEs) can serve as professional development and a brief resource guide for creating them. It's an update of materials created for conference workshops, and the entire text with illustrations can be downloaded as a pdf below. The entire post (excluding this introduction) may be downloaded as a pdf, or specific parts and associated resources may be downloaded separately.

• Packet (pdf, 2.2 MB)
• Cross-Categogy Checklist (pdf, 82 KB)
• Geoscience Checklist (pdf, 90 KB)
• Ecology Checklist (pdf, 86 KB)
• Geoscience Worksheet (doc, 213 KB)
• Ecology Worksheet (doc, 213 KB)

The worksheets ask questions that can be asked of any site, though the Ecology Worksheet requires defining specific locations within the site for closer examination. They are Microsoft Word documents so that teachers may adapt to the specifics of their field sites and curriculum needs.