Virtual Field Trips

Educational Funding is limited. One of the first cuts at your school could be a bus field trip with your students. Don’t worry, you can still take field trips electronically. Virtual field trips remove classroom walls and opens windows out into the world.
Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise. In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments.

Below are a variety of links for virtual field trips. Try ending your school year by taking an exciting virtual field trip with your students. Have students experience different field trips and then create a multimedia presentation of their field trip to share with other students.
Please comment and share new virtual field trips that you have used.

Virtual Field Trip Collections

This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the Trip Journal, the Virtual Visit (a streaming video), an Ask the Expert tool, and a hosted Web chat.
http://www.efieldtrips.org

Ball State Electronic Field Trips
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/search.php?institution=Ball%20State%20University%20Electronic%20Field%20Trips

Blackwell’s Virtual Field Trip Lists
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/vft.html

eThemes
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000995.shtml

Gail Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, "interactive environments," travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits.
http://www.gaillovely.com/VirtualFieldTrips.htm

Lists of Virtual Field Trips
http://www.techtrekers.com/virtualft.htm

Scholastic Internet Field Trips
http://teacher.scholastic.com/fieldtrp/science.htm

Simple K12 Virtual Field Trips
http://www.simplek12.com/virtualfieldtrips

The Teacher’s Guide Virtual Field Trips
http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html

UEN Virtual Field Trips
http://www.uen.org/tours/fieldtrips2.shtml

Virtual Webams (teachers should search and check these sites first)
http://www.virtualfreesites.com/cams.html


Museum Virtual Field Trips

1000’s of Museums Online
http://www.museumstuff.com/

National Air and Space Museum
http://www.nasm.si.edu/education/online_fieldtrips.cfm

Examples of Virtual Field Trips
http://www.thwt.org/virtualtours.htm

Historical Virtual Field Trips

Henry “Box” Brown Underground Field Trip
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/fieldtrips/brown.html

Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trip
http://www.history.org/trips/

George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/index.cfm

Online Field Trips from Think Classroom
http://www.thinkport.org/Classroom/trips.tp

The National WWII Museum
http://www.nationalww2museum.org

Smithsonian’s History Explorer
http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/

Utah and National Parks

Glacier National Park
http://sd5.k12.mt.us/glaciereft/

National Parks Electronic Field Trip
http://www.nationalparks.org/npf-at-work/electronic-field-trip/

Windows into Yellowstone Wonderland
http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/

Utah National Parks
http://www.uen.org/utahnationalparks/

Science Virtual Field Trips

Exploritorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Adventures in Medicine & Science (AIMS) Program of Saint Louis University http://aims.slu.edu

Cleveland Museum of Natural History
http://www.cmnh.org

Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/cam_menu.aspx

This site lists a collection of mainly science and health-related VFTs and online labs.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/virtual.php

Mote Marine Laboratory
http://www.mote.org

NASA Digital Learning Network (Kennedy Space Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johnson Space Center, and Goddard Space Flight Center)
http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/content/catalog

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
http://www.omsi.edu

Additional Distance Learning Field Trips

Center for Puppetry Arts
http://www.puppet.org