Sarah Fritzke, Lanae McClellan, Kelly Pongratz, Andrea Bandholz and Lyndsey Steele

The team’s innovative teaching idea, “Connecting Through Cardboard,” is focused on providing a “Google Cardboard” virtual reality technology experience to the students at Jordan Elementary School. Through the use of this new technology, students will have the ability to visit ancient cities around the world, travel to outer space, swim deep in the ocean, and much more. Shared experiences within a classroom develop a sense of community and comfort that provide students with the ability to take on safe risks and push their learning to new levels. Through the new Google Cardboard technology, students will be able to fuse these two invaluable components of learning together and soar to new heights. The team hopes that by strengthening the students' background knowledge and weaving shared experiences with classmates together through virtual reality, the understandings of language arts, social studies, science, and the world itself will flourish.