Dr. Alice Christie's Online Researching Resources: Virtual Field Trips

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Dr. Alice Christie's "Virtual Field Trips" Resource Guide

Virtual field trips (VFTs) are alternatives to more costly real-world field trips. In addition to being inexpensive, they are engaging to students becasue they enable students to make connections between themselves and the wide-ranging environments they can explore virtually. They also offer authentic, inquiry-based learning experiences to students.
This Resource Guide provides links to numerous: profesionally-created VFTs tools to create VFTs teacher-created VFTs other resources helpful to teachers wishing to use VFTs in their classrooms Rationale \| Collections \| Museums \| Unique Sites \| Events \| Processes Field Trip Creators \| Examples \| Resources Note: All Virtual Field Trip Sites Are Listed Alphabetically Rationale and Description Cost-Free Travel with Virtual Field Trips by Roberta Devlin-Scherer Discover and Create Your Own Field Trips by Stephanie Stevenson Get Outta Class With Virtual Field Trips Read • Write • Think: Take a Virtual Field Trip (NCTE) Walter McKensie's Virtual Field Trip Guidelines Wikipedia Article: VFTs Why Take Field Trips? A short article on the value of field trips in education Collections of Virtual Field Trips Apple Learning Interchange: Virtual Filed Trips CARE Thirteen virtual field trips of impoverished or strife torn countries Earth and Moon Viewer eFieldtrips.org Factory Tours GeologyLink VFTs Organized by continent GlobalSchoolNet.org Online Expeditions HomeworkSpot VFT Archives National Registry Travel Itineraries Online Learning Haven: Virtual Tours of History Scholastic Internet Field Trips: Teachers Guide \| Internet Field Trip Library Dozens of Internet Field Trips for elementary school kids! QuickTime Panorama Scenic 360° panorama photos of dozen of amazing places in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska ThinkPort Online Field Trips TramLine A sight for educators to visit, develop, and discuss virtual field trips University of Texas Virtual and On-line Geologic Field Trip Guides Utah Education Network Virtual Field Trips A great collection of teacher-made VFTs across all content areas Lists of VFTs Blackwell's Best Virtual Field Trips Lists of virtual field trips and museums Home Sweet HomeSchool VFTs Lee's Summit School District VFTs "OOPS" Virtual Field Trip Page! Sue LeBeau's Field Trips in Cyberspace University of Wisconsin: Virtual Field Trips and Field Studies Virtual Schoolhouse VFTs List Yahoo! Directory of VFTs Virtual Field Trips to Museums American Museum of Natural History (New York City) Franklin Institute (Phialadelphia) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) Vanderbilt Museum (Centerport, New York) Virtual (Online Only) Museums American Red Cross Virtual Museum Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum Exploratotium Guggenheim Virtual Museum Liberty Bell Virtual Museum National Institute of Standards and Technology Virtual Museum National Watch and Clock Virtual Museum Oriental Institute Museum Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum Worldwide Museum of Natural History Virtual Egyptian Antiquity Museum Virtual Museum : Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco Virtual Museum of Don Quixote Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules™ Virtual Museum of Natural History Virtual Museum of Typography WetCanvas: Virtual Museum Selected Virtual Field Trips of Unique or Famous Sites 4H Children's Garden Kid's Tour 4H Virtual Farm American Museum of Natural History: Field Trip to the Moon Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc - Prehistoric cave located in the south of France Central Park Walking Tours, New York City Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia Dinosaur Tour Smithsonian Earthtrips A virtual journey into Earth history Easter Island (by PBS) Eiffel Tower Galaxy Tour American Museum of Natura History Great Wall of China Hawaii Hershey Chocolate Factory Lechuguilla Cave - Deepest Cave in the US. Louvre Museum (Musee du Louvre) National Museum: Dinosaurs New York Underground Nine (8) Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System NOVA: Explore the Pyramids Picasso Thinkport Plimouth Plantation Plymouth as it was in the 17th century Solar System National Geographic Statue of Liberty Stonehenge Theban Mapping Project Information, images, and maps about numerous Egyptian tombs Tomb of Tutankhamen National Geographic US Government CIA Virtual Tour Historical Tour of the White House Spotty's Whitehouse Tour for Kids by President Bush's English Springer Spaniel US Senate US Supreme Court Zoos Smithsonian National Zoo (Washington, DC) Visit the Oakland Zoo The San Diego Zoo Virtual Field Trips of Events Aboard the Titanic Albert Einstein: Impact and Image (A tour of Einstein's life) Alive on Everest Black Sea Exploration: Search for Noah's Flood Great Chicago Fire Live from Antarctica 2 Virtual Field Trips of Processes Cells Alive How the Body Works Particle Adventure - Interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Your Gross and Cool Body (The Yuckiest Site on the Inernet) Field Trip Creators Utah Education Network VFT Template Tramline's TourMaker Teacher-Created Virtual Field Trips Web-Based VFTs Dr. Alice Christie's Photo Essay 1 Dr. Alice Christie's Photo Essay 2 Sheryl Horgeshimer's Flowers VFTs Created with Powerpoint™ VFTs Created with Inspiration™ VFTs Created with Word™ Virtual Field Trip Resources General Information Kathy Schrock's VFT Evaluation Form NoodleTrip - Virtual Field Trip Search Engine focusing on video conferencing field trips, distance learning, tours, and adventures. Permission Slip from field-trips.org (PDF) Tips for Field Trips Virtual Adventures from EduScapes Tutorials An Illustrated Guide to Creating Virtual Field Trips Using Google ™ Services Free Download. Learn to create virtual field trips for free. This guide and video will show you how to create virtual field trips in Google Earth by utilizing some of Google's FREE online services such as Blogger, Youtube, and Google Sketchup. Quick Time Panoramas Tutorial Utah Education Network VFT Tutorial