The teacher leads the Expedition while students use Google Cardboard, a virtual reality viewer made almost entirely of actual cardboard, allowing them to use a smartphone for the expedition.  There will more than two million Google Cardboard viewers in circulation by the end of the year. All equipment needed for the Expeditions arrived in a box provided by the Google Expedition Pioneer Program.

Students and teachers are traveling virtually around the world this week.  The Expeditions Pioneer Program visited CLHS on March 2nd and will visit the middle school on March 4th.  Some of the planned expeditions will visit Gettysburg, Iceland, Barcelona, and Verona. Other experiences include biomes, paleontology, urbanization, and the history of jazz.  The trips are collections of virtual reality panoramas - 360 degree photo spheres, 3D images and video, ambient sounds - annotated with details, points of interest, and questions that make them easy to integrate into curriculum already used in schools. The Wildlife Conservation Society, PBS, the American Museum of Natural History, the Planetary Society, and the Palace of Versailles contributed to developing the curriculum for students. You can see a list of available expeditions here.