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.
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.”
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. Mt. Everest
From recent panoramas and photo galleries, to travel logs and fun facts, students can make their very own virtual climb of Mt. Everest.
This comprehensive virtual tour allows visitors using a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or a mobile device (iPhone, iPad, Android) to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. Students can browse a list of past exhibits, which is included on the ground floor map. Visitors can navigate from room to room by clicking map locations or by following blue arrow links on the floor that connect the rooms. The desktop version includes camera icons to indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up view of a particular object or exhibit panel.
View high-definition panoramas from anywhere in the world, including snowy mountain tops and deep sea coral reefs, at 360 Cities, which contains one of the internet’s largest collection of uploaded panoramic images. Students can access to navigable views of cities, natural landscapes and much more. The site also offers tools for people to create their own panoramas. For more specific panoramas, check out the Seven Wonders of the World. This website has panoramic views of all Seven Wonders of the World, which include the Colosseum in Rome, The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, The Taj Mahal in India, Machu Picchu in Peru Christ Redeemer in Rio, and Chichén Itzá in Mexico.
8. Space
Take your younger students to the moon with these up-to-date, interactive resources from the Connections Academy Blog. Older students can explore Mars through NASA’s downloadable virtual field trip, an immersive multimedia application developed to support student and user exploration of areas on Earth that have been identified as analog sites to regions on Mars. Analog sites are those areas that share some common traits with sites on Mars and have been identified based on their significance and importance to NASA.
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
Alcatraz Island
Anne Frank House 3-D tour
Historical White House Tour
Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
See Inside a Submarine
A Conversation with Koko the Gorilla
NASA's Mars exploration program
The Smithsonian
Simulations
Build an Island from NOVA
Build a Tree-Ring Timeline
Habitat Adventure: Panda Challenge from Smithsonian (Narrated or Not Narrated)
A Walk in the Forest from Smithsonian
PowerUp
Welcome to Bayville
Nobel Prize- Immune Responses
Windward - weather and sailing race
Cams
- AirNow - Air Quality Web Cams throughout US
- Bald Eagle Cam
- Elephant Cam
- Elephant Cam at National Zoo
- Loon Cam
- Horse Cam
- Osprey Cam
- Monterey Bay Aquarium: Kelp, Sea Otter, Bird, Outer Bay, Penguin, Shark
- National Park Web Cams
- Panda Cam
- Pennsylania Peregrine Cam
- Rail Cam
- Sun Cam
- Turtle Tracking - click on the name of a turtle
- WildCam Africa - cam and blog, view highlights
- Yellowstone
360o Virtual Reality VR panoramas
ARCHITECTURE
Grand Palais Paris
CHICAGO GREEN ROOFS
Olympic Parks / Stadiums
UN General Assembly
Oslo Opera House opening
Sydney Opera House
Olympic Stadium Barcel.
Budapest Nat. Theatre
City of Arts and Sciences -
Barcelona Tibidabo
China Architecture
La Grande Arche Paris
Sydney Opera House from sea
Gare de Liege
CITIES
Dallas
Farmers Market
Jefferson Memorial
New York from Queen Mary 2
Chicago Under The Bean
Golden Gate Bridge
Savannah River Boats
Sydney from Air
Copenhagen
London Eye
The Eiffel Tower
Copacabana Rio
Savannah Lafayette-Square
Las Vegas Eiffel Tower
Damascus
Mosque
Arc de Triomphe
Statue of Liberty Paris
Rio De Janeiro
Berlin Potsdammer Platz
Venice Gondola Tour
Venice St. Mark's Square
Trafalgar Square
View from Hotel Plaza NY
Tower Bridge London
Red Square
London the Monument
Times Square from Top
Gibraltar Moorish castle
Times Square NY
Venice Gondolas
Shanghai People's Sq.
Cupid Span San Francisco
Moscow Metro
Sydney Australia
Nagoya Japan
New York 5th Avenue
Kröpcke Hannover
4th July New York
Copenhagen Nyhavn
Copenhagen-Christiania
Petronas Towers
Yokohama by Night
Monte Carlo
Rome Spanish
Steps
CASTLES
Chateau de Chenonceau France
Versailles Hall of Mirrors France
Chateau
de Salm, France
Osaka Castle Japan
MUSEUMS -
HERITAGE
Tomb of Ramesses IV
Goldfield Ghost-town Arizona
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Lincoln Memorial USA
Mississippi
Delta Queen
Gas
Museum USA
Peter Struycken Art Exhibition
Tyne
Cot Cemetery
Karnak Temple - Egypt
Groninger Museum Netherlands
Austria National Lib
Thingbæk Chalk Caves Denmark
Jelling Runic Stones Denmark
China World Heritage
Callanish Stones England
Guernica Spain
Nepal Elephants World
Heritage
RESTAURANTS
Brittany
Bistros
Blue Moon - Lima
Wolfgangsee
NATURE
The Rode to Elfrida
Death Valley
The Meteor Crater
Niagara on la Reunion
The Painted Desert
Pine Tree Arch
Devil's Garden Trail
Monument Valley
Red Rock Canyon Nevada
Valley Of Fire Nevada
Grand Canyon Grandeur Point
Grand Canyon Colorado River
Grand Canyon Shoshone Point
Colorado River Elves Chasm
Mono Lake California
Mountain Bike in Sweden
Cadgwith Cornwall
Kynance beach Cornw.
Mt Fuji from Kitadake
NOVA Krizna Jama
Mount St Helens
Bretagne Coast
Blue Mountains Australia
Pinnacles Desert
Machu Picchu
New 7 Wonders
The Banyan Tree
Lugano from Salvatore
Krizna Jama
Matterhorn
The Gannet Sanctuary
Reunion Island aerial
Karst Cave Spain.
Crater Lake Oregon
White Christmas in Denmark
Tulamben Underwater
Hawaii Kahana Valley
High Sierra Mountains USA
Denmark Skagen
Danish Nature-Grasslands in Denmark
Monte
Perdido
Olympic Rain Forest
Lands End San Fr...
Mount Whitney
Antarctica
Matterhorn from Top
Ayers Rock Au
White Sands New Mexico
Raabjerg Mile Denmark
Australia underwater
Niagara Falls
YANGSHUO, CHINA
La Réunion
TOP WORLD TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
Grand Canyon Grandeur Point
Taj Mahal India
The Little Mermaid Copenhagen
Sacré Coeur Paris
Pyramids of Giza
The Eiffel Tower
Mount Everest
Petra Jordan
Wailing Wall Jerusalem
Angkor Wat temple
Acropolis
SPACE
Moon Apollo 11-17 Panoramas
MARS
Panoramas
ARTISTIC - MUSIC - ARTISTS - FUNNY
Family VR Photos
Parisian Nights
Fastest Rapper
Clayton Bailey Artist
The HubCaps Tree
Panorama in Mouth
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