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Virtual Tour Resources

This site offers a variety of field trips live via YouTube Live, and students can ask questions of featured speakers via the comment bar. Sign up in advance to be a featured classroom and learn about all types of exploration professionals, from astrophysicists to shipwreck explorers.

The Louvre A perpetual leader in virtual tours, the Louvre Online allows students to navigate the various galleries. By clicking on the magnifying glass and then the question mark, visitors can take a look at anything from Renaissance art to ancient Egyptian artifacts and also explore the history of the remarkable building.

MARS Google has put together a great interactive 360- degree experience to explore Mars. Don’t skip the opening, and click on the “Learn” markers to find out details about our mission to the red planet via the Mars Rover and what mankind has learned.

The Nature Conservancy offers free virtual field trips through a variety of landscapes. Closely tied to curricular standards, these field trips use academic language when touring sites including coastal temperate rainforest, coral reefs, and West Virginia wind farms. Teacher guides that include graphic organizers, rubrics, and extension materials for a variety of standards and grades are also available.

10 Virtual Tours of Art Museums Around the World | BookSharkComplement your literature-based homeschool curriculum with virtual field trips to art museums around the world via YouTube. These ten, carefully chosen videos take you around the globe, touring famous art from Paris, New York City, Florence, Amsterdam, and St. Petersburg.

Google’s Art and Culture is a great resource to kick start your global search too. Did you know that Google’s “World Wonders” project offers virtual tours of 132 famous sites? So many amazing virtual tours of museums for kids!!

Virtual Field Trips

Join Discovery Education live for their new Virtual Field Trips or watch them on demand later.

Each no-cost Virtual Field Trip comes with a companion guide packed with standards-aligned, hands-on learning activities!

Check out Discovery Education's Virtual Learning page for more online resources for students, parents, and educators.

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Google LIT Trips

Google Lit Trips are fantastic for building background knowledge around novels. The trips are primarily focused on the canon, with a variety of modern and diverse titles including Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan and A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park.

There is also a mechanism to request that a trip be created, which could build a more representative body of titles.

Google Lit Trips also offers an opportunity for students to create their own trips in response to readings.

They are sorted by grade level, and the database is searchable. The interface is a little complex to navigate, so younger students may require some help from an adult.