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Submit your examples of virtual field trips here - they are cheaper than the real deal. Check pages 213-214 in your text if you have questions related to virtual field trips. Please be sure that your submission contains your name, website title and address (hyperlinked), and at least a 100 word review of virtual field trips (see **submission example** **with questions).**

· Jake Beeney-Virtual Field Trip · [|www.field-trips.org/trips.htm] · Personally I found this website rather intriguing, educational, and just fun to visit. It has a plethora of different locations to visit on a “virtual field trip.” It gives students the opportunity to encounter a number of different locations and experiences without the expense and time it would actually take to literally take a field trip to these places. It allows students to utilize technology in order to learn more about the certain concepts or places in the world. Also these “virtual field trips” give students a break from the textbooks and help keep them attentive all while attaining new and useful knowledge.
 * Casie Golliday – “Smithsonian, National Museum of History - Panoramic Virtual Tour”
 * [|http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/#]
 * This website has a virtual tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of History. It is a tour that allows the teacher and class to take a “self-guided, room-by-room walking tour” of the whole museum. The teacher and class can go from exhibit to exhibit by using a floor map or using the arrows provided. There are even spots that teacher can click that allows the class to get up close and person to some things in the museum. It is so good that you almost feel like your really there. You can turn around in a full 360 degree circle.

Elise Davidshofer—U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour [] This website would be a good one for history classes or government classes. I chose this virtual field trip because it would be a good one for me if I teach ESL abroad. The website goes through each room in the White house. There is about two to three short paragraphs that would provide the students with information about the room. On the left side of the web page, there is a 360 degree video that shows the whole room. Another good thing about this website, it allows you to choose low or high bandwidth, which might to critical in a classroom environment.


 * Kelli Hogan-Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
 * [] --Click on the first box under "Panoramic Virtual Tour."
 * This website could be enjoyed by almost everyone. However, students who enjoy science would probably enjoy it more than students who do not like science. The reason for this is the Smithsonian National Museum was dedicated to discovery and learning about the natural world through unparalled research and exhibitions. I am planning on being an elementary school teacher and I think that students at that age level will really enjoy seeing this museum because of all the interesting reptile skeletons, mammal skeletons, fossils, and other artifacts. I have actually had the opportunity to visit the museum in person, and the field trip was honestly just as good as seeing it in person. The virtual tour shows the museum in its entirety. At the bottom of the tour page there are buttons that allow you to zoom in, zoom out, and view the museum at 360 degrees.


 * Benjamin Culik - Natural Wonders of the World
 * [|Natural Wonders of the World]
 * This is a great site for an Earth Science class. It takes you on a tour of, and teaches students about, the "Natural Wonders of the World" and how and they where formed. Also, students are taught geography and geology, as well as a list of key terms. Throughout the virtual field trip, students are shown pictures of the natural wonders and given information about each natural wonder as well. This site is a great tool because not only does it take the students on a fun and educational virtual field trip, but it also outlines a lesson plan for the teacher, and provides a number of valuable resources. Also, it provides you with the option to load the field trip first, so as to ensure that it works when you need it.

· Alanna Blackburn – Virtual Field Trips · []  Then, click on New York City Underground. Real Player, Shockwave, or QuickTime are recommend for better viewing purposes. · Virtual Field Trips is a website that teachers can use in their classroom to show students exact places that students might be studying. This website has a variety of different field trips including, New York City, New York City Underground, Oregon Trail, etc. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to really get a good picture of exactly what is being studied. All you need is a simple internet connection, and you can travel around the world from there! This is not only a good way for students to further studying certain topics, but it is also much cheaper than taking a class field trip to the actual zoo.

Zach Wolf - Virtual Field Trips  [|http://www.care.org] Care.org is a site that offers virtual field trips of Spanish speaking countries. Through this site you can explore different countries such as Guatemala, Peru, and Ghana. The field trips gives you a background of each countries background and how their culture, taking you as far back as the Inca, Mayans, and Aztec. Each field trip offers the students photo albums of the countries, maps, background information on the location, as well as a journal kept by guides who have explored the countries. Care.org really gives the students a better idea of how daily life in South American Spanish speaking country works.


 * Cara Philpott-The Sun-A Multimedia Tour
 * []
 * This website provides educators and students with a virtual field trip of the Sun. The tour is approximately twenty minutes in length. There are pictures of the sun and mini movies about solar eclipses, solar flares, outburst shoots and coronas. There are also images that can be clicked to show a larger version and more detailed information. The teacher or student must choose how they would like the movies to be shown prior to entering the website. The site provides information about the sun and how it influences the solar system. It also provides information on how the sun effects the earth.


 * Sarah Sedivy - Virtual Field Trips
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 * It's a Utah Education Network for Virtual Field Trips. You can go on one or make up your own. Click on the Take A Field Trip and then it will go to all the different subjects. Once you click on the subject you want, then you click on one of the options or tours its gives you. In the tours it will tell you the history of what you clicked on, pictures, and a lot of different stuff depending on the subject your picked...


 * Trevor Mitchell- Senate
 * [|www.senate.gov-] from the senate home page click on the visitors tab. Once at the visitors page on the right hand side there is the option to view a virtual tour.
 * The virtual tour guides you through the Capitol and some of its most important buildings including the Supreme Court chamber, old and new senate chambers, and presidents room. Each room is given a camera spin, brief synopsis, and items of interest. The viewer is able to zoom in and see specific objects and historical artifacts as well as see a written history of the room and each item of interest. Some rooms tell about specific historical events and even court cases that were held in the room. The virtual tour is similar to an actual tour narrated by a guide only with more history to be discovered and is cheaper.


 * Ashley Brinkman-Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
 * []
 * The museum website gives the visitor the option of either taking a comprehensive virtual tour or a presentation of individual panoramas of the different rooms within the museum. With the comprehensive virtual tour you to take a self-guided, room to room, floor to floor walking tour of the museum. It also allows the visitor to get a close up view of exhibits or objects wherever there is a camera icon. There is a floor map to help the visitor get from one room to another. With the panoramas of the individual rooms the visitor is provided a list of links to panoramic images of each room in the museum. These are the same images available in the tour just presented a different way.