The following are a few samples of virtual tours available on the Internet. As you find additional sites, e-mail the URL, title, and a short description so that it can be added to this page. Virtual field trip guidelines can be found at Surfaquarium and at the Boston University College of Communication.


 

       

   Field Guides



Educational Web Adventures (Eduweb)

Educational Web Adventures (Eduweb®) is a developer of online learning activities about art, history and science. Their mission is to create exciting and effective learning experiences that hit the spot where learning theory, Web technology, and fun meet.



Virtual Field Trips

Virtual Field Trips Web site is devoted to providing on-line field trips that take you to places that until now you could only dream about, and teach you things you might not otherwise learn.



Virtual Field Trips

Field trips seigned and crated by teachers. They covere many curriculum areas, as well as, professional development and themes. A must see!


The "OOPS" Virtual Field Trip Page!

A virtual field trip is the next best thing to being there! Choose a destination below and click your trip into action. Submit a travel plan to your teacher once you return. Your travel plan may contain your destination, sites you saw, what you liked best and least, and whether you would return in the future!




   Fine Arts

 

Virtual Tour of Japan

Come along with the Minnesota Orchestra as they made their historic concert tour of Japan! Your mission--should you decide to accept it--is to complete the daily list of trip activities. These activities are daily discoveries providing insights into the Minnesota Orchestra, the tour concert repertory, great symphonic music composers, and Japanese culture. On each of the fifteen tour days, a new list of travel activities will appear. Your goal is to complete these activities! Students will read, write, create, imagine, listen, and explore!

 

Kennedy Center

In addition to the phenomenal spectrum of performers, musicians, and artistic productions which have graced the Kennedy Center over the years, nations from around the world have generously donated priceless artwork, artifacts, and traditional crafts to add to the richness and vitality of America's cultural center. These gifts celebrate the arts, native cultures, and also the memory of the late President and his vision of the future. We hope this tour can present you with a brief glimpse of the beauty, diversity, and grandeur of the Kennedy Center and its treasures.

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Learn about the adventures of Genghis Khan and the life of DaVinci by exploring and learning about these famous people. The museum, located in New York, hosts various exhibitions.

 

National Museum of Women in the Arts

View over 250 works by women artists from around the world from the museum's permanent collection. This museum is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.


The Louvre Museum

The Louvre Museum welcomes you to these pages. Here you will find about 60 panoramic inside and outside-views of the Museum. This "virtual tour" was made possible thanks to QuickTime VR technology. These pictures were designed to help the visitor feel what it is like to be in the Museum, rather than to show actual exhibits.


National Music Museum

The Museum's eight galleries, which feature more than 750 musical instruments, are designed to help visitors discover the wonder of musical instruments as examples of inventive workmanship, objects of refined beauty, and artifacts representative of the central position that music has played in all of the world's cultures.




   Social Studies


Tower of London

Founded nearly a millennium ago and expanded upon over the centuries since, the Tower of London has protected, housed, imprisoned and been for many the last sight they saw on Earth. It has been the seat of British government and the living quarters of monarchs ... the site of renown political intrigue, and the repository of the Crown Jewels ... It has housed lions, bears, and (to this day) flightless ravens ... not to mention notorious traitors and framed members of court, lords and ministers, clergymen and knights.

 

Durham Cathedral & Castle

 "Explore every nook and cranny of Durham’s 900-year-old cathedral. Brilliant images and extensive notes cover areas such as The Galilee Chapel and St Bede’s Tomb."

 

National Civil Right Museum

This tour is arranged in chronological order and you may begin with the first exhibit Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and move on to the next exhibit through links at the end of the page. If you only wish to view one exhibit, you can do so.

 

U. S. Capitol Virtual Tour

The U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour -- an interactive, user friendly, comprehensive and integrated multimedia tour of the U.S. Capitol. It includes panorama views and historical information about the rooms of the U.S. Capitol, as well as, information about the objects found in those rooms. This tour will leave you with the feel of an actual visit to the U.S. Capitol and serve to provide a unique
"Capitol" experience.



United Nations Virtual Tour

Welcome to the United Nations! Click the places you want to visit and learn a bit about the history of the UN's buildings, main bodies, and artworks.



Virtual Tour of White House

This site includes: White House History and Tours: Past Presidents and First Families, Art in the President's House and Tours and White House for Kids: Helping young people become more active and informed citizens.

 

Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation

Plimoth (Plymouth) Plantation was the first permanent European settlement in southern New England (AD 1620). Today, this area is the site of a living museum, dedicated to recreating 17th - century lifeways in the New World. Plimoth Plantation includes several exhibits: A reconstruction of the 1627 village occupied by the Pilgrims. A reconstruction of Hobbamock's Homesite and the Nye Barn.

 

Ellis Island Tour

This Web page is an adaptation of a simulation produced by Interact. Interact has a variety of history simulations which can be used in
the Social Studies classroom.

 

Lower Eastside Tenement Muesum

It was easy to overlook 97 Orchard Street. The building was but one of the thousands of tenements that sprouted up on the Lower East Side during the nineteenth century. However, for Lukas Glockner, 97 Orchard Street wasn't just another tenement. When the German immigrant opened his tenement in 1863, he was hoping to turn a profit by providing cheap homes to the immigrants who were flooding into Manhattan. The tenement fulfilled Glockner's dreams: people filled the building and swelled his pocketbook. Indeed, between 1863 and 1935, 7000 tenants lived in 97 Orchard Street. The lives of some of these residents are the basis of our Virtual Tour.



Virtual Tour of the CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Truman. The National Security Act charged the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)  with coordinating the nation’s intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating and disseminating intelligence which affects national security.



Along the Oregon Trail

"Free Land in Oregon!" was one of the first things heard and what probably got the whole thing started.  What an opportunity, what a great chance to start over with new land and unlimited possibilities! 


  Science


The Frankline Institute

One of The Franklin Institute Science Museum's most popular resources, "The Heart" is now available in a "new and improved" version! If you've been to "The Heart" before, visit again and take advantage of the new content areas as well as the new graphics.

 

Johnson Space Center Virtual Tour

This sites contains interactive panoramic movies of facilities operated by the United Space Alliance at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.



Sue at the Field Museum in Chicago

Sue is the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex. She was discovered by fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson in 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota. The Field Museum purchased Sue at public auction in 1997 with generous financial support from McDonald’s Corporation, Walt Disney World Resort, and private individuals.



National Museum of Natural History

This museum displays treasures of nature and of humankind. They tell of forces that generate, shape, and sustain natural and cultural diversity. More than a century of careful collecting and research by scientists has resulted in an unsurpassed world collection of more than 120 million natural and cultural objects. Open the door to this collection during your visit to our virtual museum. Visit any exhibit hall and discover the joys of natural history.

 

NASA Space Shuttle

This tour lets you  see what the technicians and engineers see as they work on a Space Shuttle preparing for launch. The STS-90 Virtual Tour takes you through the Space Shuttle Columbia as it is being prepared for launch in the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. Tour in the cockpit, go through the airlock and see the inside of the Neurolab payload.

 

The San Diego Zoo's Ituri Forest
Search Ituri Forest Virtual Tour. Are you ready for an adventure? Early explorers brought back tales of a fascinating place. Hot. Steamy. A rain forest deep in Africa where a rich mix of people, plants, and animals learned to coexist. Ituri Forest is its name. A place of flowing rivers and dense tree ...



Virtual Dissection

This award-winning interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make movies, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. The interactive Web pages are available in a number of languages.

 

Virtual Tour of the Ear

The mission of the Virtual Tour of the Ear is to: provide educational information about the ear and hearing, and provide quick access to ear and hearing web resources.

 

Welcome to Antarctica!

This virtual tour of Antarctica includes a tour of the South Pole, New Zealand and McMurdo. Pictures, history and some amazing facts about this "cool" continent.


The Exploritorium Online Exhibits

Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve fifteen million visitors a year. That makes us one of the most visited museum Web sites in the world.



Flynn Bogs System

The Flynn Bogs System is located in Leon County, Texas, northeast of the small agricultural community of Flynn. The bogs featured in this tour are all on a privately owned ranch. The owner has a deep appreciation of the unique ecosystems found on his land, and he has taken pains to preserve the bogs.

Created by Mary Ann Coe, D. Ed.
Midwestern State University
Updated: April 2004