| Teacher Preparation Academy - Dr. Deborah A. McAllister |
| The College of Education and Applied Professional Studies |
|
The following list contains links to virtual field trip sites, many of which are educational. This page was created for the NSTA area convention in Birmingham, AL (11/19/98) and the NSTA national convention in Boston, MA (03/26/99) by Deborah McAllister and Ginger Sullivan. See also TAEYC98/TETC98 Bookmarks and TETC97 Interactive Sites for PreK-8 educational sites and online activities.
| Aquarium Sites | Children's Sites | Communities | Compilations |
| Directions | Museums and Exhibits | Outdoors | Postcards and Cards |
| Science Sites | Specialty Sites | Zoos |
Children's Sites
4Kids Treehouse - http://www.4kids.com/kidshome.html
Activity, Bon Voyage - http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/BigIdeas/B1/B1pop2.html
AfricaQuest - http://africaquest.classroom.com/
Come along on a nature walk - http://www.worldbook.com/fun/wbla/camp/html/walk.html
Fifth Grade Virtual Field Trips - http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Champaign/grdlvl/5/ftrips.html
Gorilla Haven - Fun Info title page - http://www.gorilla-haven.org/ghfuninfo.htm
K12ETC Index by Subject - http://prometheus.ed.csuohio.edu/K12ETC.Subject.Index
Kerry Caldwell - Virtual Schoolhouse link at bottom - http://www2.msstate.edu/~jkc6/
Kidweb: Virtual Field Trips - http://www.metronet.lib.mi.us/WEST/field.html
Literary Explorer - A Wrinkle in Time - http://lausd.k12.ca.us/~cburleso/wrinkle.htm#wrinkle
Literary Explorer - Island of the Blue Dolphins - http://lausd.k12.ca.us/~cburleso/Lessons/IBDolphins.htm
MayaQuest 98 - http://www.mayaquest.com/
Middle School Earth Science Explorer - http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaur.html
Mr.Gs Virtual Field Trips For Classrooms - http://www.bess.net/~garyg/trips.htm
National Geographic Kids - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html
Okavango @ nationalgeographic.com - Cyber Safari - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/okavango/index.html
Royal Ontario Museum - Kid's Stuff Fun Page - http://www.rom.on.ca/eyouths/funstm.html
Science Fact File: Inside The Human Body - http://www.imcpl.lib.in.us/nov_ind.htm
Science World: Exhibits: The Human Body - http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/science_world/english/exhibits/body/index.html
Sonoran Sky Virtual Field Trips - http://www.aristotle.com/sskystorage/jrnyschl/fldtrp.html
The Children's Art Gallery - http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~cag/
The Electronic Zoo - http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm
The Living Edens "Etosha" - http://www.pbs.org/edens/etosha/
The Virtual Field Trips Site - AT&T/Tramline - http://www.field-guides.com/
The White House for Kids - http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/kidshome.html
TOUCAN SAM's Encyclopedia of the Rain Forest - http://www.toucansam.kelloggs.ca/eng/enter.htm
United Nations CyberSchoolBus - http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
Virtual Field Trips - SC site - http://www.spartanburg2.k12.sc.us/links/fieldtrips.htm
Virtual Field Trips - WY site - http://www.ccsd1.k12.wy.us/LINKS/Field_Trips/links_virtual_field_trips.htm
Virtual Field Trips for children - http://www.asd.com/asd/edconn/frtrip.htm
Virtual Field Trips on the Internet - K12 GA site - http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/pges/virtual_trip.htm
Virtual Fieldtrip Central - http://www.essex1.com/people/mpyoung/VFT.Central.html
Welcome to The Nine Planets - For Kids!!! - - http://www.tcsn.net/afiner/
You Can with Beakman and Jax - http://www.beakman.com/
Communities
Arcosanti: A prototype arcology - http://www.arcosanti.org/
EPCOT - http://www.disney.com/DisneyWorld/ThemeParks/Par42.html
Ocean Planet Homepage - http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
Plimouth Plantation, Plymouth, MA - http://pilgrims.net/plimothplantation/vtour/index.htm
State of Tennessee Home Page - http://www.state.tn.us/ - any state - http://www.state.XX.us/ where XX is the two-letter abbreviation
Virtually Hawaii: Virtual Field Trips - http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/virtual.field.trips.html
Virtual Chattanooga Directory: Tourism - http://www.chattanooga.net/directory/vc-tourism.html
Virtual Pictoral Visit of Chattanooga - http://www.chattanooga.net/visit/index.html
Virtual World Tours -- Over 100 Country and City Virtual Tours. Plus Travel related information including World Maps, Aids, Travel Tips and Travel Newsgroups - http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/world.html
Compilations
OthFieldTrps - all ages - http://www.bess.net/~garyg/other_FieldTrps.htm
people.html - http://www.indirect.com/user/dhixson/people.html
Surf Monkey - Browser & Internet Guide for Kids - http://www.surfmonkey.com/
U. S. Dept. of Transportation - Virtual Tours - http://www.dot.gov/edu/k5/HTM/TOURS.HTM
Virtual Field Trip Links - TAMU - http://geoweb.tamu.edu/faculty/herbert/hillcountryvft/links/links.html
Virtual Field Trips - http://wwwcream.une.edu.au/StudentFiles/StudentsPapers/Craig/trips.htm
Virtual Field Trips - Douglas County, CO Library Links - http://douglas.lib.co.us/missy/fieldtrip.html
Virtual Field Trips - Georgia College & State University - http://snow-white.gac.peachnet.edu/gather/content/Content_Materials/field_trips.html
Virtual Field Trips - Iowa State Univ. site - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~sbeisser/vtrips.htm
Virtual Tour of Museums and Exhibits Index -- Enjoy Over 300 Tour sites including Museums, Virtual Reality, RealTime Events, Multimedia Exhibits and Journeys - http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/museums.html
Virtual Tour of Museums -- Plus an Additional 300 enjoyable sites for you to Tour including Virtual Reality, RealTime Events, Multimedia Exhibits and Journeys - http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/museums.museums.html
WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world - http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/world.html
Directions
MapQuest - http://www.mapquest.com/
National Geographic Map Machine - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
National Geographic Xpeditions Maps - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/main.html
Yahoo Maps and Driving Directions - http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py
Museums and Exhibits
American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/
American Red Cross Virtual Museum - http://www.redcross.org/hec/index.html
Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Collection - http://www.learner.org/exhibits/
Ellis Island - http://wwwald.bham.wednet.edu/museum/museum.htm
Field Museum On-line Exhibits - http://www.fmnh.org/exhibits/web_exhibits.htm
Hands On Children's Museum, Olympia, WA - http://www.hocm.org/
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago - http://www.msichicago.org/
Museum Tours - The Virtual Egyptian Museum - http://www.museum-tours.com/museum/index.htm
National Geographic Xpedition Hall (Virtual Museum of Geography) - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/
Natural History Museum, London - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - http://www.rockhall.com/
Smithsonian Institution - http://www.si.edu/
Springfield, Ohio Museum of Art - Tours - http://spfld-museum-of-art.com/tour/index.html
Royal Ontario Museum - http://www.rom.on.ca/
The Exploratorium - http://www.exploratorium.edu/
The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago - http://www.fmnh.org/
The Franklin Institute Science Museum - http://sln.fi.edu/
The Mining Co. Museum Tours - http://specials.miningco.com/museums.htm
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums - http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
Virtual Field Trips - Recommended online museums - http://www.emf.net/~iisme/ftrip.html
Welcome to the Computer Museum - http://www.tcm.org/
Welcome to the St. Louis Science Center - http://www.slsc.org/
Outdoors
Arizona Geology Virtual Tourist - http://www-glg.la.asu.edu/%7Esreynolds/azvt/map_links.htm
B. Holzman - Geography 316 - http://www.sfsu.edu/~geog/bholzman/vftrips.htm
Glacier Electronic Field Trip - http://www.sd5.K12.mt.us/glaciereft/
Kentucky River Fault Zone Virtual Field Trip - http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/vftrips/ky/krfz/st1.html
Live from the Rainforest - http://passport.ivv.nasa.gov/rainforest/site.html
Red River Gorge Virtual Field Trip - http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/vftrips/ky/rrg/st1.html
Science in the Rainforest Electronic Field Trip - http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/
Skiddaw Granite Virtual Field Trip - http://earth2.open.ac.uk/Virtual%20Earth/Articles/Skiddaw/Text/Skiddaw.html
SkyView Virtual Observatory - http://skview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html
The Telegarden - http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/garden/
Virtual Field Trips - Geology - http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/geology/virtfield.html
Virtual Field Trips and Satellite Images from Virtually Hawaii - Honolulu, Oahu - 07/14/97 - http://honolulu.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa071497.htm
Virtual Fieldtrips Subject Listing - Univ. of Wisc. Geol./Geog. - http://www.uwsp.edu/acaddept/geog/projects/virtdept/subject.html
WebDoGS Virtual Field Trips - http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/vftrips/vftrips.htm
Postcards and Greeting Cards
Awesome InSites - http://www.marlo.com/
Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards - http://www1.bluemountain.com/
Cards - http://www.cybergrace.com/html/cards.html
Discovery Online - Live Cams - http://discovery.com/cams/cams.html
Kellogg's Clubhouse Cards - http://www.kelloggs.com/club/cards/index.html
Utah Postcards - http://www.utah.com/postcard/index.htm
Y'all.com Free Internet Postcards - http://www.yall.com/postcards/index.html
Alan & Linda's Postcard Page (lots of postcard links) - http://www.ais.org/~alb/postcard.html
Cyber Greeting Cards - http://www.marlo.com/card.htm
E! Online Cards - http://www.eonline.com/Fun/Cards/card.julia.html
Electric Postcard - http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/">
Family Planet House of Cards - http://www.family.com/
Guardian's Egypt Postcard Center - http://guardians.net/egypt/postcards/cardcenter.html
Prince Edward Island - Greeting Card Centre - http://www.gov.pe.ca/card/
Send a MayaQuest postcard - http://www.mecc.com/maya97/postcards/mqpostcards.html
Ski Resort Cams and Postcards (at each site) - http://www.rsn.com/cams/frm_intermed.html
Virtual Florist - http://www.virtualflorist.com/
Webcards - http://www.adgrafix.com/webcards/
ZIA Holidays - http://www.zia.com/holidays/
Science Sites
Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Collection - Amusement Park Physics - http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Collection - Amusement Park Physics/Design a Roller Coaster -
Annenberg/CPB Exhibits Collection - Weather - http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/
B-Eye - See the world through the eyes of a honeybee - http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html
Build a Coaster - Discovery Online - http://discovery.com/exp/rollercoasters/build.html
Guardian's Egypt - http://guardians.net/egypt/
How Far Is It? - http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist?place1=
Intellicast - http://www.intellicast.com/
National Aududon Society - Educate Yourself - http://www.audubon.org/educate/
Open University - Earth Science Links - http://earth2.open.ac.uk/Virtual%20Earth/Links/Links.html
Solar System Simulator - http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/
The Nine Planets - http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
Thorntons Discovery - Natural World - http://discovery.thorntons.co.uk/pages/natural/content1b.asp
Virtual Field Trips - Scientist - http://kendaco.telebyte.com/billband/Trips-scientist.html
Virtual Telescope - http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3645/telescope/index.html/
Windows to the Universe - http://www.windows.umich.edu/
Specialty Sites
Virtual Florist - http://www.virtualflorist.com/
Zoos
Animal Links - http://scnc.holt.k12.mi.us/~hummelk/animals.html
Creatures - Wildlife Photography by Kristen Ankiewicz - http://www.ankiewicz.com/photos/creatures.html
NetVet Veterinary Resources / Electronic Zoo Animal Species - http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm
The Birmingham Zoo -
http://www.birminghamzoo.com/
The Nashville Zoo -
http://www.nashvillezoo.org/
Wildlife Portraits-Animals - http://www.wildlifeportraits.com/assorted.htm
| Created 11/14/98, last modified 07/05/99. | Your comments |
| [Teacher Preparation Academy] | [Dr. McAllister] |  |
|