Take a virtual tour of one of several thousand 360-degree images of places all over the globe in one, easy-to- search website. Check out the editor’s picks to see places you might not consider searching otherwise: from landforms to temples to bazaars to glaciers. Use 360 Cities to see the world and all its diversity and beauty.
This comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room- by-room walking tour of the whole museum.
“What do your students know about 9/11? In their Distance Learning programs, students will be given the chance to foster a connection with members of the 9/11 community and explore the history of the event through live video conferencing.” The Tribute Center has powerful, moving displays for students to learn about the tragedy. The organization’s live conferencing opportunities are of very high quality.
Offers live African safari webcams, 24/7. You’ll have to watch an advertisement, but once you have, you’ll get a high-quality video with sound.
Africam Audio On Demand Premium Soundwalk - Recorded at the Naledi Game Reserve in South Africa. Brodan Systems' audio equipment captures every sound from the African bush in pristine stereo quality.
Beautiful 360-degree views of many of the world’s great structures and natural places. 360 Photos and 360 Video are available.
Explore Chichen Itza, home to the ancient Maya, with your students. Enjoy maps, images, and activities. This site still requires a Flash player, so select the printer friendly view instead. There are a few activities to use with the site, Breaking the Maya Code and the Mayan Calendar Round.
Follow in the immigrants' footsteps by taking this tour. You'll hear first-hand stories told by people who came through Ellis Island; see historical photographs and films; read fascinating facts; and discover the central role this station played in the story of American immigration.
Over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization, Eternal Egypt is a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions.” There are many ways to begin your journey through Eternal Egypt. The guided tour is a quick way to experience the best that the site has to offer. You can also begin with one of the cultural highlights.
features live webcams from around the globe. See the night sky over Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan, Canada or visit the surf of Waimea Bay, Hawaii. There are several live cams to explore related to many potential curriculum needs.
If your students are studying the tides, ocean, or water dwellers, this is a link to their YouTube archives. Includes video tours.
Some Interesting Tours:
Drop by drop to the sea
Salinity Stratification
Turtle hospital
Watershed demos
Scholastic Education’s virtual experience allows students to “Visit Plimoth Plantation to talk with the Pilgrims, visit their village, step aboard the Mayflower, and explore the Wampanoag Homesite.”
Introduce your class to the first harvest celebration, delve deeper into the relationships between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags, and take a closer look at the historical significance of the Pilgrims' settlement.
Explore 17 different museums from all around the world. Whether you’re interested in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Palace of Versailles in France or the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, you’ll find it here.
This Google Street View modified site allows you to look up places immediately. See the National Gallery, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and several more sites. Oh, and explore the lava cave!
A small portal to many traditional virtual field trips.
A collection of more than 200 virtual panoramas of Italy most famous art city monuments. These can be explored 360° and each of them comes with text written by history of art professionals. Free audio guides are available for download.
This exhibit by the Sierra Club offers the concise story of Muir's life, writings, and works. It includes sounds, video, and text.
John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club. This website, known as the "John Muir Exhibit" features his life and contributions.
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“A non-profit organization that connects students, in the classroom and out, to real science and exploration to inspire and motivate them to study and pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).” They have some fascinating live opportunities including live webcasts with professionals in the field. Plus, much more information and resources are available here to help build a lesson plan.
Provides students an opportunity to explore wildlife migration and animals and insects that experience seasonal change. There are several creatures available for study, including migratory pattern maps and links to live cams of nests and enclosures. Contribute to the sightings maps!
Visit the museum’s exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre.
A virtual tour of George Washington’s Mount Vernon in high, crystal-clear detail provides stunning views from the grounds, the mansion, the gardens and more.
Take a virtual visit to the Zoo any day of the week by tuning into our live web cams, which feature many of the Zoo's animals.
Offers interactive, fast- paced “Virtual Field Trips” that are streamed LIVE into classrooms across the country. Guided by a museum educator, students analyze maps, photographs, artifacts, posters, speeches, and songs as they explore the chronologies, strategies and outcomes behind the chapters of WWII history.
An online planetarium that allows users to explore stars and planets across a roving map. A very cool instrument to encourage students to learn more about outer space.
The Rare Book Room’s educational potential is impressive. Students may view and, in some cases, read some of the rarest books in the world. See most of Shakespeare’s Quartos; gorgeous, illustrated Renaissance titles; and several more. This site is a stunner.
Provides a photo-heavy tour of an ancient Roman villa, dating between the 1st and 3rd centuries C.E. You can see the villa from all sides and enter the inside rooms. It’s a neat tour to accompany a study of ancient Rome.
The #DailyDrone today flies to the Roman Empire in southern Germany.
Offers a variety of live cameras pointed at the animals in its enclosures. Pick your favorite camera and watch the pandas, elephants, polar bears, apes or condors.
A 3-D tour of the Dutch home where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Germans for more than two years.
This is a beautiful web site put together by Nova and PBS. It includes a tour of the island and the game Move a Megalith.
A virtual tour of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) at the Kennedy Space Center during its last mission, STS-133.
Explore the Taj Mahal and its palatial grounds in this impressive, in-depth virtual tour, boasting several million views to date. The site features images and short videos to provide neat learning opportunities about this iconic landmark.
Provides images and brief text about the building’s interior and exterior features. Short histories and anecdotes may also prove helpful for some learners. There are three court rooms, law libraries and even an accessible tour.
Relate observable Moon patterns to motions within the Earth–Sun–Moon system using this digital model from Astronomy Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Linked Earth and space perspectives enable students to recognize cause-and-effect relationships. They can also visualize the spatial and time scales of phenomena such as the Moon’s apparent path in the sky and the Moon’s appearance in the day sky and night sky.
Scroll to the bottom of this page to take a tour of the White House. This site might make a good resource for a Presidents Day activity.
Turn your computer into a virtual telescope. Bring together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators.
Sail around the world on a 43-foot sailboat, and meet the crew who did it. You'll find separate centers for teachers and students.
This site provides a narrated (robotic-sounding) tour of the solar system beginning at the sun and navigating to other planets throughout. This is a 3D solar system simulation application, which gives you the approximate location of the planets in the solar system at different time, and some information about each one of them.