Connecting Stories to the World Using Tour Creator In BC’s updated curriculum, it is encouraged across the curriculum to connect learning with place. In the First Nations Education Steering Committee’s First Peoples’ Principles of Learning it states that “Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).” In this increasingly connected world, we need to be not just aware of what is happening in our immediate vicinity but also what is happening around the world. Education needs to be grounded in its connections with the real world. The following lesson and activity guides students through connecting the stories they read with real world places and happenings through the use of Google's Tour Creator . Students will create a virtual reality tour using real images of places discussed in a novel and draw connections with other artifacts, such as news articles, drawings or videos. ...