Joe's No Bus, No Fuss Field Trips

There is of course no substitute for taking children or adolescents on real field trips. However, working with world wide web resources sparked the idea of taking virtual field trips. I have integrated some interesting locations I discovered with URLs and interesting ideas I found in the article "Virtual Vacation" by Michael Swaine, MacUser, July 1995.

• Start with a big map
  
• Travel to Paris
  
• What's happening at the Pompidou Center?
  
• Back to the US to visit to the Smithsonian
  
• The fabulous Exploratorium in the "city by the bay."
  
• This may help you if your students think you are out of it?
  
• Feet tired? It's time to rest.
• A little "To Be or Not To Be.
• How about a bite of the Big Apple?
• Too stuffy in the Big Apple? Let's go outdoors.
• Perhaps it would be cooler underground
• Let's go home. Lay in a hammock. Look at the night sky and think of the most far out field trip ever.

Joe's Favorite Education Related Gopher Sites

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Joe's Class's Favorite WWW Sites

• Web 66
• Kid's Internet: hands on science, dinosaurs, sports, Lego page, lots of other things
  
• Online Home of Bill Nye, the Science Guy
• University of Delaware Botanical Gardens
• Great Feminism Resources
• List of Schools with Home Pages
• Key Pals - a list of teachers who want internet "pen pals" for their class as well as other teacher oriented items are on this page.
• Library of Congress Home Page
• Scholastic
• Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Rain Forest information
• Unit on the Weather for grades 2-4

Live Video - more or less..

What would your lessons be like if students could see in "real time" the people and places they are studying? As a teacher consider the possibilities that will emerge as real time video becomes part of the World Wide Web.

• Camera At The Buckman Elementary School
• Camera in a store
• Camera focused on a fishtank
• The Trojan Room Coffee Machine

Live Sound...not really but it's neat anyway.

I like the following page for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that it very nicely demonstrates the potential of using sound in a file accessible through the WWW.

• Learn to speak Italian