Free Virtual Field Trips Anytime
1. Google Art Projects
A collection of 1000+ works from 17 highly acclaimed art museums in the world. You can virtually walk the aisles of these museums and view high resolution images of paintings like Van Gough’s “The Bedroom” and even share your whole collection.http://www.googleartproject.com/
2. Google Sky
Travel the stars with Google Sky. You can explore constellations, and even watch the birth of distant galaxies. You can even change the view of Google sky to see what the sky would look like if we had the ability to view the universe in x-rays or infrared. http://www.google.com/sky/
3. Smithsonian
This is a complete virtual tour where all you have to do is follow the blue arrow around the museum to journey on a great tour of the museum that makes you’re feel like you’re actually walking the halls of the Smithsonian.http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/
4. Panoramas.dk
Bring the 7 wonders of the world to your classroom with breathtaking panoramic which includes the Colosseum in Rome, The Great Wall in China, The Taj Mahal in India, and Machu Picchu in Peru.
http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/colosseum.html
5. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
This virtual tour is of The Oxford University Museum of Natural History. This museum is home to an extensive world-wide collections of zoology, entomology, geology, and mineralogy, including the local dinosaur finds, a 40ft Tyrannosaurus rex, the observation beehive and Alice’s Dodo. Also a part of the tour is the building itself; one of the finest examples of the Victorian Gothic style of architecture.
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/universitymuseum/#
6. Inside the White House
Travel floor-by-floor as you take an interactive tour of the White House and browse through history. Learn the significance each room has in the day-to-day workings of the White House.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/interactive-tour
A collection of 1000+ works from 17 highly acclaimed art museums in the world. You can virtually walk the aisles of these museums and view high resolution images of paintings like Van Gough’s “The Bedroom” and even share your whole collection.http://www.googleartproject.com/
2. Google Sky
Travel the stars with Google Sky. You can explore constellations, and even watch the birth of distant galaxies. You can even change the view of Google sky to see what the sky would look like if we had the ability to view the universe in x-rays or infrared. http://www.google.com/sky/
3. Smithsonian
This is a complete virtual tour where all you have to do is follow the blue arrow around the museum to journey on a great tour of the museum that makes you’re feel like you’re actually walking the halls of the Smithsonian.http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/
4. Panoramas.dk
Bring the 7 wonders of the world to your classroom with breathtaking panoramic which includes the Colosseum in Rome, The Great Wall in China, The Taj Mahal in India, and Machu Picchu in Peru.
http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/colosseum.html
5. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
This virtual tour is of The Oxford University Museum of Natural History. This museum is home to an extensive world-wide collections of zoology, entomology, geology, and mineralogy, including the local dinosaur finds, a 40ft Tyrannosaurus rex, the observation beehive and Alice’s Dodo. Also a part of the tour is the building itself; one of the finest examples of the Victorian Gothic style of architecture.
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/universitymuseum/#
6. Inside the White House
Travel floor-by-floor as you take an interactive tour of the White House and browse through history. Learn the significance each room has in the day-to-day workings of the White House.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/interactive-tour
Discovery Education VR
Learn More about VFT
You can learn more about virtual field trips with these links to field trips:
- John Muir Exhibit This exhibit by the Sierra Club offers the concise story of Muir's life, writings, and works. It includes sounds, video, and text.
- Secrets of Easter Island This is a beautiful Web site put together by Nova and PBS. It includes a tour of the island and the game Move a Megalith.
- Explore the Estuary If your students are studying the tides, ocean, or water dwellers, this is an excellent site. It includes video tours.
- The JASON Project This many-faceted site hopes to "put the thrill of discovery back into the classroom." It offers several different trips, including one that follows a crew living aboard the space station.
- Reach the World Sail around the world on a 43-foot sailboat, and meet the crew who did it. You'll find separate centers for teachers and students.
- PolarHusky.com This site chronicles the dogsledding expeditions made especially to educate the children of the world.
- Colonial Williamsburg - Colonial Williamsburg hosts the best, and the longest running, electronic field trips in the country.
- Lascuax Caves - Stunning views of the caves
- 1. Arctic Adventure
Free to the entire K-12 community, this programming uses the allure of Arctic dogsled expeditions and Arctic research as the vehicle through which K-12 teachers and students gain an understanding of natural and social sciences while they experience the cultures of the Arctic. Since 2000, these adventurous learning expeditions have circumnavigated the Arctic to observe, experience, and document traditional ecological knowledge and collect previously unknown in-situ environmental realities–while collaborating with K-12 students and teachers in state-of-the-art online learning environments. Standard-aligned curricula are also available.
2. Global Trek
This adventure from Scholastic looks like Expedia or Travelocity, but is created for students eager to explore the world … from their computer. Student can choose from a list of countries and will be asked to keep a travel journal to write about different topics during their online trip.
3. Google Lit Trips
Google Lit Trips are free, downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey, there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought-provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story. According to their creator, Google Lit Trips “three-dimensionalize the reading experience by placing readers ‘inside the story’ traveling alongside the characters; looking through the windshield of that old jalopy in The Grapes of Wrath or waddling alongside Mr. and Mrs. Mallard’s duckling family in Make Way for Ducklings.”
4. Hershey’s Factory
Sometimes students just want to explore something cool, like chocolate. Thanks to step-by-step videos on its chocolate-making process, Hershey’s gives students a fun virtual field trip … even if it’s minus the smell and taste of chocolate!
5. Le Louvre
Take a virtual tour of the Louvre to experience a 360-degree panoramic view of many of the museum’s halls. The virtual tour web page offers different departments and architectural views of the museum. Tours currently include Egyptian Antiquities, Remains of the Louvre’s Moat, and Galerie d’Apollon, as well as many other rooms included in the museum (some are even closed to the public!). - With funding from the National Science Foundation, we have been leading professional development to engage teachers in creating Virtual Fieldwork Experiences (VFEs) and have produced resources for others to create them as well. Some examples include the overview found here: http://bit.ly/VFEPD; replicating the Eames Power of Ten film using Google Earth here: http://bit.ly/PofTEN and the larger website found at virtualfieldwork.org.
- GOALS: Global Online Adventure Learning Educators developed this Web site to "intrigue you with the adventures, the sciences, the technologies and the underlying laws of nature that make them possible."
- Virtual Field Trips If you're looking for a museum trip, here's a list of several available on the Web.
- Virtual Field Trips Here's another site where you can create your own field trip or try out other teachers' efforts.
- If you don’t have a traditional video conference unit you can still visit these trips using a PC or Mac with http://www.fieldtripzoom.com services.
- For the most up-to-date searchable database of virtual fieldtrips using videoconferencing, check out http://www.cilc.org. The searching is free and the database is constantly being updated by all the providers!
- http://www.educatevia360.com
We incorporate text, narration, quizzes, video and facts into each VFT. We have 19 separate VFT’s online but are adding more each month… Washington DC monuments and Arlington Cemetery will be coming online in July. - With funding from the National Science Foundation, we have been leading professional development to engage teachers in creating Virtual Fieldwork Experiences (VFEs) and have produced resources for others to create them as well. Some examples include the overview found here: http://bit.ly/VFEPD; replicating the Eames Power of Ten film using Google Earth here: http://bit.ly/PofTEN and the larger website found at virtualfieldwork.org.