Virtual Field Trips

Virtual Field Trips is an online resource of destination-based videos for social studies, geography, science, and literacy curriculums.

Virtual field trips allow students to travel all around the world right in your own classroom.
This engages students and helps them to stay focus. Students are able to see relativity or size of a place or animal.

virtualfieldtrips.org is a great resource for teachers for virtual field trips that is categorized by state and standard. There are free resources available for teachers of any grade level and for any topic! Teachers can even go to YouTube to access virtual field trips.

Virtual field trips are great for helping develop social and emotional skills. Students are able to understand a different perspective through taking a field trip to another place or see an animal virtually than on paper. Virtual field trips help bring global awareness to students. Many times students do not know what is going on across the world or even in the next state. Students are able to see what is going on in the world around them and even communicate with someone from that area to ask essential questions to bring more understanding. Students are able to understand cultures and places.
Teachers can even use Skype for virtual field trips. Teachers are able to Skype with people who are working in a specific career or live in another country. This is great way to introduce different careers and bring understanding to a culture. Students are able to communicate directly to the person and ask questions to deepen their understanding. Students are more engaged and will take the experience with them forever.

There are so many benefits to using virtual field trips. For one they are affordable for everyone! Students are able to go places that they normally cannot because of cost or lack of time. So many virtual field trips align with the curriculum and this would give students access to do more research on topics. Virtual field trips support all learners and creates global citizenship. There are no restrictions! Students are able to explore and zoom into areas throughout the field trip and take more time than being on a tour at the actual location.