Virtual Field Trips
& Augmented Reality (AR)
Augmented Reality & Virtual Field Trips
Google Cardboard - Get A Viewer. Get it, fold it and look inside to enter the world of Cardboard. It's a VR experience starting with a simple viewer anyone can build or buy.
Field Trips
Arctic Adventure - Free to the entire K-12 community and our worldwide audience of all ages, our programming use the allure of long Arctic journeys pulled by powerful sled dogs and paired with Arctic research as the vehicle to explore natural and social sciences while we experience cultures and life in the Arctic.
Global Trek - This adventure from Scholastic looks like Expedia or Travelocity, but is created for students eager to explore the world … from their computer. Student can choose from a list of countries and will be asked to keep a travel journal to write about different topics during their online trip.
Hershey’s Factory Sometimes students just want to explore something cool, like chocolate. Thanks to step-by-step videos on its chocolate-making process, Hershey’s gives students a fun virtual field trip … even if it’s minus the smell and taste of chocolate!
Louvre - Take a virtual tour of the Louvre to experience a 360-degree panoramic view of many of the museum’s halls. The virtual tour web page offers different departments and architectural views of the museum. Tours currently include Egyptian Antiquities, Remains of the Louvre’s Moat, and Galerie d’Apollon, as well as many other rooms included in the museum (some are even closed to the public!).
Mt. Everst - From recent panoramas and photo galleries, to travel logs and fun facts, students can make their very own virtual climb of Mt. Everest.
Museum of Natural History - This comprehensive virtual tour allows visitors using a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Linux)or a mobile device (iPhone, iPad, Android) to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. Students can browse a list of past exhibits, which is included on the ground floor map. Visitors can navigate from room to room by clicking map locations or by following blue arrow links on the floor that connect the rooms. The desktop version includes camera icons to indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up view of a particular object or exhibit panel.
Panoramas of the World - View high-definition panoramas from anywhere in the world, including snowy mountain tops and deep sea coral reefs, at 360 Cities, which contains one of the internet’s largest collection of uploaded panoramic images. Students can access to navigable views of cities, natural landscapes and much more. The site also offers tools for people to create their own panoramas. For more specific panoramas, check out the Seven Wonders of the World. This website has panoramic views of all Seven Wonders of the World, which include the Colosseum in Rome, The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, The Taj Mahal in India, Machu Picchu in Peru Christ Redeemer in Rio, and Chichén Itzá in Mexico.
Space - Take your younger students to the moon with these up-to-date, interactive resources from the Connections Academy Blog. Older students can explore Mars through NASA’s downloadable virtual field trip, an immersive multimedia application developed to support student and user exploration of areas on Earth that have been identified as analog sites to regions on Mars. Analog sites are those areas that share some common traits with sites on Mars and have been identified based on their significance and importance to NASA.
White House - “Inside the White House” is a good idea for older elementary and middle school students learning about government, as well as any civics or American history class. Students can watch videos or take an interactive tour through the West Wing, the South Lawn, the East Wing, and the Residence. There is also a slide show of the presidents and other historical information.
Virtual Field Trips Discovery Education - Tour the National Archives, see how an egg farm works, explore NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, or hear from the President of the United States. Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips are fun, educational, and free!
Literature
iScience: Elements, Forces and Explosive Experiments! (iExplore) Hardcover – September 1, 2015
iStorm: Wild Weather and Other Forces of Nature (iExplore) Hardcover – September 1, 2015 by Anita Ganeri - Want to unleash a tsunami or stand in the middle of an earthquake—in complete safety? With the wonder of Augmented Reality, you can experience the wildest weather at home without disturbing a chair! Place your tablet or smartphone near the visual trigger on the page and hold it up to see a tornado blow in or a volcano erupt. Or simply explore Earth's ever-changing surface. From floods and drought to forest fires and avalanches, iStorm shows why extreme natural events occur and their impact on our planet.
Quiver 3D Augmented Reality coloring apps: print, color and see your drawing in beautifully hand-animated 3D worlds.
Red Cell and White Cell - Author Michael Brown brings children into the microscopic world of blood cells in this STEM-focused educational book for kids. When a smartphone or tablet with a camera is held over each of the pages, the associated app brings the narrators of the book, Red Cell and White Cell, to life, describing the content on each of the pages and providing even more information about some of what goes on inside of our bodies. This book was published in 2014. Get it here.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
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