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Create a Virtual Field Trip!

Get your students excited about learning with a virtual field trip! Learn how to create your own VFT and engage your students in place-based education in our summer workshop: June 27-29!

Creative Tools

From immersive virtual tours to customized lessons and courseware, Infiniscope's content creation tools enable you to create engaging and pedagocially rich learning experiences designed for your learners.

Quick-Start Guide

Need some help navigating? Check out our quick-start guide! It has all the tips and tricks to help you find what you're looking for. 

Fate of the Plates

Explore the mechanics of plate tectonics!  Investigate plate margins, explore surface features and model plate boundaries as you traverse the globe with Orby, an interplanetary explorer who is fascinated by Earth's unique surface.

Sparking Curiosity

Learning happens when students are curious. That's why curiosity is at the core of everything we do. Infiniscope is a NASA-funded project that is transforming Earth and space science education.

Educator Created VTs

Looking for MORE digital content in your online classroom? Explore our collection of educator-created virtual tours developed during our summer virtual tour workshop. 

Join the Community

Are you an educator looking for more? Join the Infiniscope community for FREE access to digital learning resources, professional development and content creation tools.

Solar System Formation

Unlock the secrets of solar system formation through simulations and real-world data. Discover how condensation temperatures can influence the properties of planets in this new experience.

NASA's Digital Learning Week

05/08/2023

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, join us and other NASA Science Activation teams to experience an array of curated resources and live, on-demand activities to help with your lesson planning.

Create A Virtual Field Trip Workshop

06/27/2023

Join us June 27 - 29 for our Virtual Field Trip Workshop! Learn how our free browser-based platform can enable place-based learning without any of the limitations of in-person field trips. The workshop will take place from 10:00 - 11:30 PT on June 27, 28 & 29.

More Events Coming

09/01/2023

We have more events in the works so check back with us and see what's coming next! For now, we'll just put up a picture of this sweet dog and give you some time to go do what you love.

Blogger Icon🚨New Content:🚨 Fate of the Plates

Look, we get it, teaching plate tectonics is hard. Your students have to mentally visualize a process that occurs below the Earth's surface and we only have indirect evidence to support how it works. You've tried everything...graham crackers and whipped cream, play dough, online videos, and more. We've done all those things too! 

Revolutionize the way you teach plate tectonics with Infiniscope's new digital lesson titled "Fate of the Plates," created for high school and higher ed students.

Fate of the Plates features a simulation that allows students to explore below the crust of Earth, choose from continental or oceanic crust, choose their direction of movement, and observe the features formed resulting in different plate boundaries. Along the way, the students collect cards that show the crustal features created at these boundaries and allows the student to track their progress toward completion of the lesson. This hands-on approach makes learning about plate tectonics more accessible by eliminating the mental model gymnastics and enables direct exploration of the variables involved.



The lesson also features a narrative-driven exploration where students work to help their AI friend, named Orby, answer the question of why the Earth's crust is younger than the crust of other terrestrial planets. Along the way, Orby provides feedback, creating an interactive and personalized experience.


Want to know our absolute favorite part? When we taught this topic in the classroom, it was difficult to find simulations that show more than 2 plates interacting, so, we made a section on 3 plate interactions! It's based on the S. American plate and it's ðŸ”¥FIRE🔥 ...errr ...molten? 



Finally, the product is designed to be easy for teachers to use, with full lesson plans and three different classroom delivery models, launch, enroll via LMS, or enroll without an LMS. If you're looking to take your plate tectonics lessons to the next level, this new digital product is an excellent choice. With its engaging narrative, AI friend, simulation, and tracking features, your students will be eager to learn more.


🔥HOT TIP🔥

Plate Tectonics not part of your curriculum? No worries! Got testing days coming up in the spring? Spring break? Sub days? These lessons are a great way to provide high quality content without the muss and fuss of a full on lesson plan and still slap (that's what the kids say, right) when you just need to fill time. You can share the lesson with students directly, enroll them in our LMS-lite version, or deploy it via Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle.

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