1. Around the World In A Day: Virtual Field Trips

2. What is a Virtual Field Trip? A virtual field trip is a “trip” taken by viewing pictures, videos and/or audio clips, and reading information provided with the “trip” opposed to visiting a place physically or just using a textbook as a resource.

3. What is a Virtual Field Trip? designed to be entertaining and educational can be online or via videoconferencing allows students to visit an actual site through the use of internet technology encourages and engages students and supports standards based curriculum

4. Advantages of Virtual Trips Cost effective You can travel to exotic places http://www.panoramas.dk/moon/mission- apollo.html Engage students by showing them a different perspective other than the text book http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/

5. Advantages of Virtual Trips Take them places they won’t have a chance to actually go to…. http://kitses.com/animation/swfs/digesti on.swf Or just take your students on a trip that reinforces concepts that you may be covering in class http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/

6. Different types of Virtual Field Trips Media Center website Virtual Cell video Dinosaur Dig Interactive site US Supreme Court Interactive panorama

7. Panoramas Panoramic photography is a format of photography that aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view or any wide view of a physical space. There are panoramic photos, as we have already seen that are interactive and give a 360 degree view of an image. Information retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_photography

8. How do I integrate virtual field trips into my classroom? SC.SS.7.5.6 - Summarize the Holocaust and its impact on European society and Jewish culture, including Nazi policies to eliminate the Jews and other minorities, the \"Final Solution,\" and the war crimes trials at Nuremberg. (H) http://remember.org/auschwitz/ http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.htm You can find various virtual trips that will allow students to visit places to reinforce what you have taught in the classroom.

9. Interactive sites There are several sites that offer virtual explorations of information that you may be covering in class. Yellowstone National Park Lewis and Clark Froguts

10. How do I find a virtual field trip? There are hundreds of virtual field trips on the web and sites that have links for different types of virtual trips: Geography for Kids The Apollo Missions Surfaquarium Fortune City Eduscapes

11. Travel Plans As you begin to plan for your virtual field trip, keep these tips in mind: Be sure your trip is connected to the standards Plan ahead Preview sites, check links Place a time limit on your VFT Be the tour guide

12. Let’s Take a Trip! The Underground Railroad Standard 7-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the colonial expansion of European powers and their impact on world government in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. SC.SS.7.1.4 - Summarize the characteristics of European colonial power and explain its effects on the society and culture of African nations, including instances of participation in and resistance to the slave trade. (H, G, P, E)

13. Articles http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticl e.php?articleID=13100791 http://www.edutopia.org/virtual-field-trips http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/t ech071.shtml

14. Be creative Create your own! http://www.field-guides.com/ http://jogtheweb.com/