Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Field Trips Too Expensive This Year? Try a Virtual Tour!

Do you and your students want to travel to a museum, a city, a country, the solar system? How about a virtual tour? Would you like your students to create their own virtual tour?

Here's a few of the sites available for virtual tours:

Franklin Institute Science Museum
Museum of Science and Industry
American Museum of Natural History
Worldwide Museum of Natural History
American Red Cross Virtual Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vanderbilt Museum
Easter Island
The Nine (8) Planets
The Whitehouse
The Virtual Cave
Dark Ages
Poet’s Pantry Tour
Africa

Dianne Krause of the Wissahickon School District in Pennsylvania has created a list of virtual tours which includes many that I have not seen elsewhere. This list is definitely worth exploring!

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