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The Beginner's Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips

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The Beginner's Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips

Resources Found on this Article:

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

Access Excellence Resource Center
www.accessexcellence.org/RC/virtual.php
This site lists a collection of mainly scienceand health-related VFTs and online labs.

Gail Lovely’s site
www.gaillovely.com/VirtualFieldTrips.htm
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

The First Thanksgiving

Thanks to ILearn Technology Blog for sharing this great resource.

Scholastic has amazing resources for teachers and students to work with. But for students to learn about the First Thanksgiving they have this interactive which takes you on a voyage on the May Flower, the Daily Life and the Thanksgiving Feast. To complete your whole Thanksgiving Unit you can access the lesson plans, activities and books.

Darwin's Virtual Tour

Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage is a virtual tour of Charles Darwin for students to learn in a fantastic way about his travelings, journals etc.

Great Science Field Trips

Shared by web20classroom on twitter!

Field Trip Earth is the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation.

Art Museums

• Louvre Virtual Tour: Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries.

• Smithsonian American Art Museum offers fantastic classroom online activities for use in art and history classes.

• The Forward Thinking Museum is a virtual art museum containing more than 100 exhibitions and videos.

• Prado Museum Google Earth layer that allows users to explore art work through Google Earth.

• The Brooklyn Museum's Flickr photostream contains 54 albums featuring thousands of images spanning numerous aspects of art and art history.

Museum Webquests

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for the post!

The nine national museums in Great Britain have a nice collection of webquests.

Virtual Field Trips

I found this Virtual Field Trips list on delicious.

The Simple K-12 website is part of the InfoSource Learning. Which offer online tools that allow technology training and assessments to an entire district for less than the cost of instructor-led seminars, workshops, and face-to-face learning sessions.

As part of their online tools there is this free list of virtual field trips that can serve any teacher in any subject to use in their classroom.

National Archives Experience

Shared by Kahlil G. Chism

The “Digital Vaults” web site delivers an online experience that is unlike any other. With a database of some 1,200 documents, photographs, drawings, maps, and other materials and a keywording system that visually links records, the Digital Vaults web site enables visitors to customize their exhibit experience and to create posters, movies, and games that can be shared by e-mail. The site also has a special interactive resources section for educators and students.
Some of the things you can do or find in the Digital Vaults include:

• Collect and keep documents online
• Create a Poster or Movie
• Select and solve a Pathways Challenge
• Jump to the Educators & Students page of the National Archives website

Virtual Field Trip Resources

What is a virtual field trip? It's a guided and narrated tour of Web sites
that have been selected by someone and arranged in a "thread" that students
can follow from site to site with just the click of a single button. Virtual field trips are the best way to assemble, or thread together, the most important sites that tell a story or follow a theme. Tramline Teachers Resource Tour.

This are some websites were you can find and use virtual filed trips with
your students:

Tramline - the Virtual Field Trips Company, Home of TourMaker Software A sight with already made virtual feildtrips

VRMag - issue 31 Olympic Games Beijing Gisele Bünchen Iphone ... Panoramic Pictures of lots of places including cities, countries, museums,

Panoramas.dk- Bristol Balloon Festival,Oktoberfest,Valencia...

Virtual Field Trip Information by Vicky Blackwell

Digital and Virtual Field Trips in the Teacher Tap

Virtual Field Trips, Utah Education Network

http://www.efieldtrips.org/ Devil’s tower, fire’s role in the ecosystem, sea turtles, manatees, etc.

http://www.mbayaq.org/ - Monterey Bay Aquarium: great live webcams, podcasts, teacher and kid sites and resources

www.internet4classrooms.com/vft.htmeduscapes.com/tap/topic35.htm - Good article

tripswww.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html#Museums -

onlinemuseumshttp://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html#Museums

Get Outta Class With Virtual Field Trips

The Teachers Guide Virtual Field Trips

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