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Wadsworth Cengage Learning virtual explorations provide great interactive activities to help students connect what they are learning in the classroom to other resources via the web. The content page is easy to use and each module is set up in the same format for continuity and ease of use. Students are required to visit various resources, learn about different issues from a sociological stand point, and complete questions related to each resource as they work through the virtual tour. The interactive process keeps the student engaged and completion of the activities requires higher level thinking to solidify concept learning. This is a great tool that can be integrated into one or all chapters taught in an introductory course. I do recommend review of all content per page before use in the classroom. Some activities are better than others and in order to submit the tour via email the student must complete all activities and questions in one sitting. The nice thing about his website is that you can use portions of a module and adapt it to create smaller activities that can be integrated into a LMS or traditional hard copy submission assignment.