1. Examples of quality virtual field trips:

• Educational Web Adventure

• Virtual Field Trips and Labs

• American Museum of Natural History

• Museum of Science & Industry

• Museum of Science & Ind. Coal Mine


•  Museum Galileo


•  Museum of Unnatural Mystery


• Children’s Garden

• MoOM: The Museum of Online Museums

• Farming


•  The Butterfly Conservatory

• Rome

• The First Thanksgiving


•  Colonial Williamsburg


•  Virtual Gettysburg


•  Great Wall of China


• U.S. Supreme Court Building 

• Carnegie Museum of Art 



• Met. Art Museum Timeline



• The Louvre 


• New York Public Library



• Library of Congress

• Tie it to your curriculum
• Provide background information to students
• Guidelines

• Create Virtual Teaching Guidelines
• Innovative Teaching Guidelines
• Planning Sheet

• Quick & Easy programs –

a. Trackstar
     i. Example
b. Meet Me at the Corner
c. Using Templates:
    i.  Adapting Virtual Adventures (PowerPoint templates)
    ii. Template II (zip file)

Using the template (ii)
• Clicking on the pink thumbnail image above will enable you to navigate around the linked templates
• This shell could be used for any subject or case study where studying images at different magnifications is important: either a single image seen at different resolutions or, as in most of the above examples, related images at different scales
• You may download the templates as a zip file. Save the zip file, then open it using Winzip or a similar program
• You may then edit the files in an html editor such as Kompozer, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, inserting your own images and text into the linked pages
• In the examples above, each image has been saved in 3 resolutions: large (~1500 pixels max. dimension), medium (600 pixels) and thumbnail (100 pixels)
• Hint - if you give your files the same names as the placeholder images in the templates, you will not need to change any of the links. The names should be:
o for the thumbnails, thumb01.jpg to thumb06.jpg
o for the medium size images, image01.jpg to image06.jpg
o for the large images, image01-big.jpg to image06-big.jpg

d.  Project Poster
e.  Web Worksheet Wizard

• Video libraries

a.  Visual Resources
b.  Panoramic movies
c.  Panorama and software resources
d.  PBS
e.  Public Movies  (public - teacher should screen and select)
f.   The History Channel
g.  Adapt a Field Trip Sources
h.  Webcams

i. Earth Cam
ii. Web Cam Central

i.  United Streaming -  (subscription required – 30 day free trial)
j.  Quicktime Development Resources
    i. Quicktime 101
k. Using Swish (an alternative to Flash)
    i.  Swishpix - view demos

• Provide background information
• Prepare them technologically
• Is this an individual or group project?

• Provide accompanying handouts or checklists
• Create an activity that students can complete while on the field trip.

• Student created mini-trips

• Internet4Classrooms
• Dr. Alice Christie's Virtual Field Trip Page
• Online Virtual Field Trips
• Tramline
• Digital and Virtual Field Trips
• Virtual Field Trips
• The Virtual Schoolhouse Field Trips
• Virtual Field Trips and Web Museums (comprehensive resources)
• Focusing on Sedimentary Environments
• Innovative Teaching Newsletter - Virtual Field Trips
• Teacher World
• Simulations

• Technology -  (all)
• Specific Subject Standards - (The type of virtual field trip would
   determine which standards are being met.)