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Virtual Field Trips

What Are Virtual Field Trips? Use Your Own Words – Do NOT Just Copy/Paste This Information.
A virtual field trip is a guided exploration on the internet that incorporates varies websites,links,
images, and other online sources to present a lesson on a specific theme.

What Are Advantages Of Virtual Field Trips?

Some advantages of virtual field trips are:
-no cost
-can be repeatedly visited and reviewed
- Available with in the classroom
-hyperlinks and clips to provided exploration while still staying focused on the goal
What Are Disadvantages Of Virtual Field Trips?
Some disadvantages to virtual field trips are:
-need access to technology for all students
-time energy and effort in finding and organizing appropriate content
-maybe used in replacement of a real field trip
-issues with time management

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Virtual Field Trip 1.

What Is The Name/Title Of This Virtual Field Trip?
All About Amphibians
Where Did You Find This Virtual Field Trip? What Website?
Discovery Education
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/Live/amphibians.cfm

Why Would Your Students Benefit From This Virtual Field Trip?
This field trip is a list of videos from a university. Each video is around 2 minutes long and focuses on
one specific amphibian. This is beneficial to student because the short videos will help them stay
interested, provides real graphics of the animals in their habitats, and it is easy to navigate with the
links to the videos at the bottom of the current page. They also stay on the single webpage for all
the videos.

How Could You Use This Virtual Field Trip To Help You Teach Your Lesson? In Other Words, Think About How
You Would Use This Field Trip To Teach Something and/or How Would You Incorporate This Into A Lesson?
This field trip could be used in multiple ways, obviously if the students are learning about
amphibians this will help teach them all about it.
If they are learning about food chains this could also be beneficial because the videos talk about the
important roles these animals play in the food chains.

Virtual Field Trip 2.

What Is The Name/Title Of This Virtual Field Trip?
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Live Web Cams

Where Did You Find This Virtual Field Trip? What Website?
Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-exhibits/live-web-cams

Why Would Your Students Benefit From This Virtual Field Trip?
This website has around a dozen live feed webcams to the ocean in various types of habitats.
Students can watch different creatures swim around in their natural habitats.

How Could You Use This Virtual Field Trip To Help You Teach Your Lesson? In Other Words, Think About How
You Would Use This Field Trip To Teach Something and/or How Would You Incorporate This Into Your Lesson?
If students are learning about the ocean this website is perfect for showing the different types of
habitats and animals that live in them.
Student can see the difference if coloring, size, and shapes of animals based off of where they live.

Virtual Field Trip 3.

What Is The Name/Title Of This Virtual Field Trip?
Getting Into Stunning Caves

Where Did You Find This Virtual Field Trip? What Website?
360Cities
https://www.360cities.net/curated_sets/229-getting-into-stunning-caves

Why Would Your Students Benefit From This Virtual Field Trip?
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This website provides collections of 360 panoramas for tons of subjects. The cave panoramas give
you the same view as someone standing in side of them. The website is easy and fun to use,
students would be entertained. They would get a sense of exploring the caves for themselves.

How Could You Use This Virtual Field Trip To Help You Teach Your Lesson? In Other Words, Think About How
You Would Use This Field Trip To Teach Something and/or How Would You Incorporate This Into Your Lesson?
This field trip would be great when talking about the formation of caves, stalagmites, and
stalactites. It gives a real life image of what the caves look like and how the stalagmites grow with in
them.