3.+Virtual+Field+Trips

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Timothy Thrasher- Dinosaurs: A Prehistoric Adventure For Grades 2-5 http://www.field-trips.org/sci/dino/

This virtual field trip is designed for grades second thru fifth, I found it really informative. The things that are discussed in the virtual field trip is what is a dinosaur, fossils, theories of extinction, paleontologist, dinosaur eggs, anatomy and behavior, their names, and how to classify different dinosaurs. There were a lot of pictures of dinosaur bones, eggs, and paleontologist. Even though this virtual field trip was very informative, it wasn’t really interesting. I thought the trip would have been a little more interactive. I was able to follow the field trip, but a second grader might not able to follow the field trip as well. I wouldn’t use this field trip for second or third graders, but I would with fourth and fifth graders.

Corey Heisel- M&M's: are you getting what you paid for? http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=14705

This was an activity aproved by the Utah State Curriculum and is used mainly in algebra and pre-algebra. This activity allows students to get a better understanding of basic algebraic knowledge. This should be a fun activity for all the students involved because it uses candy as an extra incentive which will intern motivate students to find the answers faster. Also, allowing students to analize the date which inturn make them think harder. Students overall will enjoy the activity and it allows you as a teacher to keep a fun atmosphere in your class.

Adam Sharp- NASA the Virtual Fieldtrip http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html On this virtual site of NASA you are able to view a variety of interesting facts about NASA. On this site they have videos that tell stories about past events Such as the tragic crash of Apollo 1. There are plenty of knowledgeable articles that explain many of the things NASA has done and is working on. There is also a section for students ranging from Kindergarten all the way to higher education. Each grade section has things that are applicable for those students to view and understand. This virtual site is a great form of education on the exploration of space. One thing I found interesting was the Send your name around Earth which is under the student section. After filling in your name you will receive a certificate of participation which I thought was very cool. This virtual fieldtrip is a great site for students of all ages who are or want to learn about space and all of the things NASA has to provide.

Ness Garland-Virtual Field Trips and Web Museums http://midgefrazel.net/fieldtrip.html Take a visit to this website, because it offers so much opportunity for Virtual possibilities from museums to fieldtrips. It is full of all kinds of examples of different museums and places to visit across the country. You can also create your own field trips to share with others. This site also provides you with links to other pages that may have more information on the location of the fieldtrip. I think this site is great educational tools in helping teachers prepare students creating and taking these types of field trips. It also has good examples of these trips for you to look at if you want to take one yourself just for fun.



Brianna Duvall –Tramline http://www.field-trips.org/vft/index.htm Tramline is a website that allows you to use and create virtual field trips. Tramline was created to get the best use out of the web in the classroom. This site allows students to take field trips without ever leaving the classroom. There are virtual field trips on science, literature, social studies and other topics. If you click on the subject that you want like science, then you click on specific field trip that you would like to take like dinosaurs, sharks, oceans, etc. This is very helpful because if it is raining and a trip is cancelled you can still go through the web.

Laurie Peterson - New York Tenement Museum http://www.tenement.org/Virtual-Tour/index-virtual.html The Lower East Side Tenement Museum virtual tour is excellent for social studies teachers covering the United States emergence as a world power from 1890 to 1920. Teachers can take students on a virtual tour of six apartments representing some of the different living arrangements and family situations of immigrants from Southern Europe. Click on the floor plan and tour each room discussing living spaces and immigrant material culture with students. At the bottom of each virtual apartment are questions comparing 19th and 21st century immigrants that educators can use to preface class discussions or group projects. This is an excellent site that provides a realistic alternative to the cost and stress of an actual class fieldtrip.

Bonnie Breckenridge-Utah Education Network http://www.uen.org/tours/fieldtrips2.shtml The utah Education Network is a website that was made for the Utah educational system. This website includes a wide variety of virtual fieldtrips. You can choose from CTE/Career Technical, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Library Media, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, Technology, and more. Once you click on the specific topic you are interested in it gives you a list of virtual fieldtrips that relate to that topic. The neat thing about this website is that all the virtual fieldtrips have been approved by the educators. When you click on a virtual feildtrip it tells you who made it and who the fieldtrip is intended for.

Patty Landsly - Yellowstone National Park [|Windows into Wonderland] This site offers a wide variety of virtual filed trips from the history of Yellowstone National Park to ecology, fire science and much more. All seventeen trips give a detailed outline of the content on the home page. Each trip is multi media experience with lower tech slide shows, audio and streaming media presentations. For teachers, there is a guide about how to attend an electronic filed trip, pre and post-program lesson plans and related web sites. There is also an “ask the experts” message board so students can ask questions directly to the Yellowstone Park rangers. This site could be used in conjunction with the Yellowstone National Park website junior ranger program to enhance the learning experience. This is a wonderful way to expose students, who may live too far away, to the wonders and beauty of our nation’s first National park.

Monica Maurer – Hawaiian Islands virtual field trip http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/virtual.field.trips.html This website offers descriptive virtual field trips to each of the Hawaiian Islands. The different islands have various ways of displaying the tour. Some tours have digitally animated air views; some take you through the islands with pictures from the air or the ground, and sometimes the tours are given through a child’s perspective, with their own pictures. Some island tours allow you to interactively click on numbers on a map of the island. This links you to another page that contains more pictures, which are accompanied by historical facts or geographical descriptions of the island. These tours conveniently guide you through the Hawaiian Islands in a colorful and informative way.

Jake Meyers- Utah Education Network http://www.uen.org/tours/fieldtrips2.shtml This is a website that divides virtual field trips into subject matter. It is a free website that is available to educators throughout the United States. Teachers must go through their own school to obtain a username and password. Once a member though, educators have access to all the virtual field trips provided by the website. Subjects that have field trips on the website are; CTE, fine arts, foreign language, Health and P.E., language arts, math, science, social studies, special education, and technology. A member teacher can also create their own virtual field trip using the websites Create a Field Trip feature.

Aubrey Findley-Virtual Field Trips http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html This website shows several different field trips that can be accessed through the web. It is divided into virtual tours and virtual exhibits. The wesite shows several different museums that are helpful to teachers. They can add one with each lesson plan. There is a wide variety of what you can look at so many subjects can be covered. The website also contains other links that can be accessed by teachers to aid them with other things.


 * Meghan Smith- Go Fly a Kite, Virtual Field Trip
 * http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=14399
 * I have chosen the Go Fly a Kite virtual field trip. This is a “field trip” related to mathematics. This is a great example because it gives real life practical examples of where in life you can use the skills you learn in math. It encompasses everything from just measuring the amount of string and how high the kite is, to measuring the angle the kite is flying at. It is very informative on how to do these measurements and experiments as well as giving you pictures to do these experiments on in class. I believe that this would be a very informative virtual field trip, however I feel this lesson may be better taught by actually going outside and doing it. Yet, if you teach somewhere where that is not possible, then this would be a great alternative.

Stephanie Colby--Chasing Tornadoes Virtual Field Trip http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0404/sights_n_sounds/media2.html On the National Geographic website, I came across this interesting virtual field trip that lets you see how powerful tornadoes are and the aftermath it can have afterwards. Storm chasers risk their lives each time they chase these powerful storms so they can see and measure how big these tornadoes can actually get. I think students would really appreciate this website because it shows actual footage these storm chasers have documented and it feels like you are actually there riding with the storm chasers. Students can also see how these chasers get prepared and the necessary precautions they have to take to get footage of the tornado.

Adam Padjen- Bird Watching Central Park http://www.meetmeatthecorner.org/episodes/bird-watching-in-central-park-interview-with-glen-philips

This is a short trip on bird watching in central park in New York City. It starts out explaining about central park and all the species of birds that are in central park. This mostly explains how to bird watch and what materials you would need to do so. The trip teaches you when you will see the most birds and when the least species of birds would be out. This trip also tells you what you would need to go bird watching. This would be good to show before working on a unit for birds and before going outside and doing some bird watching with the class.

Crue Harmon - Virtual field trip [|__http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html__]

Teachers going on fieldtrips is just to much of a liability issue anymore. This website is great for teachers that really don’t have the opportunity or funds to go and visit some of the most interesting museums, or even things or places that are not possible to see with your own eyes. This website makes it possible for teachers to take their students on a virtual tour of many different museums, general information, and other exhibits through out the world. It breaks it down into these three categories making it much easier to navigate rather than having to look up a bunch of information about a specific subject.