Virtual Field Trips

The National Park Service: National Parks offer extraordinary experiences and now there is a way to connect with national parks from a distance. The website features many options from live webcams, featured video and photo tours, kids activities and much more.

Google Arts & Culture: Arts & Culture is a great way to incorporate a Virtual Field Trip with your classroom. It is constantly changing and offers tons of options for teachers.

National Geographic: National Geographic has created over 50, 360° videos exploring many amazing places and natural phenomenons. Videos range from Journey into the Deep Sea to Baby Pandas to Kamchatka Volcano Eruption.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Take your students on a Virtual Tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The tour includes key areas like Mission Control, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility and the von Kaman Visitor Center and Auditorium.

Tundra Connections: From Discovery Education comes a unique virtual field trip about Polar Bears. Watch and learn about these wondrous creatures.

Virtual Farm Tours: Through this website your students can learn about the wonders of agriculture by learning how fruit is harvested or how dairy products are made.

Monterey Bay Aquarium: This amazing aquarium has live webcams that allows students to observe sea creatures in real-time. Some even have narrated feeding live with times listed on their website.

Tour of the Louvre: Explore one of the renowned museums in the world, the Louvre in Paris. Using their website you can take a cultural tour through many breathtaking exhibits.

Access Mars: On August 5, 2012 the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars and has sent over 200,000 pictures back to Earth. JPL and Google teamed up and used those picture to create this immersive web experience.

The Nature Conservancy: The Nature Conservancy brings scientists, citizens, and leaders together to protect and care for nature. Here you can find many virtual field trips ranging on topics from The Secret Life of Corals, Peru: A Coastal Ecosystem, and Renewable Energy.

Google Treks: With the popularity of Google Maps, Google used similar technology to create a series of Treks or virtual field trips to explore some unique locations. These Treks include the Pyramids of Giza, Great Barrier Reef, Mt. Fuji and many more.

International Space Station: Good Maps worked with NASA to create a virtual model of the International Space Station that you can walk around. This includes everything from the science labs to the awe-inspiring Earth-facing Cupola window.

White House Virtual Tour: Take a 360 Virtual Tour that will take you inside the halls of the White House. You can even examine the rooms and objects even closer than you would in person.

Imagine being taken back to April 19, 1775, the first day of the historic American Revolution. Join professional reenactors, organizers, onlookers and photographers as they gather to recreate this historic moment.

Butterfly Conservatory: From the American Museum of Natural History comes a virtual field trip where students get to observe butterflies and their amazing wing patterns.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: The Smithsonian mapped out the entire Natural History Museum for you to be able to explore every exhibition in the museum.