How do land, transportation, work, memory, and community shape a place—and how does travel change when those stories remain connected to the map?
01 / Enter
Begin with the place and its evidence.
A statewide field study connecting parks, historic places, landscape, community stories, audio, maps, and Google-based wayfinding.
02 / Investigate
Look closely, compare, question, and revise.
Learners construct meaning through place-based exploration, map reading, story comparison, and route design. Choice is preserved, while themed pathways provide enough structure for classroom or field use.
03 / Demonstrate
Use evidence to make learning visible.
Complete the route with a sourced explanation, model, reflection, or creative response appropriate to grades 4–12 and lifelong learners.
A closer view from the Virtual West Virginia experience
Look closely. Move at your own pace. Follow the object, question, place, or human story that asks for another step.
Learning objectives
Use maps and immersive evidence to describe spatial relationships
Connect physical geography with settlement, industry, culture, and travel
Compare primary images and historical accounts of the same location
Design a route that communicates a coherent geographic or historical theme
Curriculum connections
C3 Geography: spatial patterns, human-environment interaction, and geographic representations
NCSS theme: People, Places, and Environments
CCSS ELA-Literacy RH.6–8.7 and SL.6–8.5: integrate maps, visuals, and digital media
