Virtual
Field Trips: A Sampling
By
Barbara Smith
Magnet Coordinator at Harvard Elementary, Houston (TX) and
Teachers Network web mentor.
E-mail Barbara.
The Virtual Field Trip is a field trip that students and
teachers take via the Internet. A great benefit of
this activity is that it utilizes technology tools to help
students visualize and understand subject matter through
exploration and active learning. It's also a great way to
"travel" without leaving your classroom! Look for sites
with QuickTime VR, which allows you to view panoramic views
of your virtual field trip location.
Visit our recommended links, which may inspire you to create
your own virtual field trip. You can also find thousands
of Virtual Field Trips by doing a Google search online.
Big Bend National Park Virtual Field Trip
http://geoexplorer.tamu.edu/bigbend/index.html
Virtual
Tours of England using QuickTime VR
http://www.britishtours.com/360
New
York City Panoramic Virtual Tours
http://nycpov.galvinized.com
Virtual
Yosemite QuickTime VR
http://www.yosemite.org/vryos/pages/movie.htm
Explore
the Taj Mahal
http://www.taj-mahal.net/indexHome.htm
A Virtual Geological Field Trip to Iceland
http://www.casdn.neu.edu/~geology/department
/staff/colgan/iceland/welcome.htm
A
Virtual Tour of the Louvre Museum
http://www.louvre.or.jp/louvre/QTVR/anglais/index-s.htm
Virtual
Antarctica
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=1965
Field
Trip Trail Heads
http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm
Library of Congress Historical Photo Panoramas
http://www.multimedialibrary.com/QTVR_Section
/QTVR_LOC/loc.html
NOVA's
Great Pyramid Online Adventure
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
explore/khufuenter.html
U.S.
Capitol Virtual Tour
http://www.senate.gov/vtour/index.html
QuickTime VR of China & Japan
http://www.kiku.com/qtvr/index.html
Niagara
Falls Virtual Tour
http://jarek.com/Niagara
Virtual
Jerusalem Tour
http://www.md.huji.ac.il/vjt
Eiffel
Tower Panoramic View
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen
/fullscreen32.html
Volcano
World Virtual Field Trips
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/kids
/vrtrips.html
Grand Canyon Explorer
http://www.kaibab.org
Creating Your Own Travel Web Pages
Travel
Web Pages are a way to document any actual field trips you
may take with your students. By writing journals, taking
photos, and attaching relevant links and artifacts, students
create a dynamic record of their trip to revisit over and
over again. Create your own travel page; examples and directions
at the Virtual Tourist Web Site: http://virtualtourist.com.
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