Prior to introducing the new virtual reality sets to her students, teacher Rachel Keyes tested it on her own children.
"I made them put the goggles on and got to see their reactions and I was like, ‘oh yeah, this is going to work,’” she said.
When Keyes tested the devices on her students Thursday morning, they were just as excited.
“The students, as they're getting to look around at the sky and getting that full 360 panoramic kind of experience, it's huge," Keyes said. “It's different than a book. It's something you can interact with. You can feel it there. You can feel yourself being in that place."
Th virtual classroom experience was made possible by a grant from The Oakwood Schools Foundation. It was initially introduced to teachers during a staff meeting.
"Across the board in science, we always try to make things more interactive," Keyes said.
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