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Chelsea Gill- Leonardo da Vinci [] This is a website that has a virtual tour of a Leonardo da Vinci museum. At the website, you first enter the main gallery. Once you are in the main gallery you then can chose which wing of the museum to go to. These wings include things such as works and designs by Leonardo da Vinci. When you enter each wing there are pictures of the different works and information about each below it. You can enlarge the pictures to get a better look at his work, also. The last wing is a summary of his life and the times.

Christiana M. Strebe – Internet for classrooms.com- Underground Railroad [|http://www.internet4classrooms.com/vft.htmVirtual Field Trips] The Underground Railroad- []

Internet4classrooms is a great site that has a long list of different virtual tours that teachers can take their students on. A few of the tours were not well done, however I found a bunch that were worth looking into if you wanted to take your class on a field trip but didn’t have the resources. One of my favorite tours that I looked at while I was at the site was the one on the Underground Railroad. It was well put together and looked like it would be easy as well as fun for students to follow. The site had information on the slave law as well as profiles, pictures, and narratives of some of the men and women who actually were on and participated in the Underground Railroad. The site will also let you and your students plan your own virtual trip through it and will have your students write daily logs on their experience.

Lauren Crossett- National Gallery of Art []

This I believe is a very good online tour an art class can take one day. Since it is Washington D.C it would be very hard to travel there. Now the kids can take a stroll thought the gallery and see artists like Rembrandt, Jacopo Bassano, and study the fine works done by many artists during the cubism age. It has good directions and is easy to use. It has specific areas you can look through in the gallery. That is helpful because if you only want to look at paintings, or maybe sculpture, it allows you to do so. This online tour seems like a easy and educational trip through a computer.

Leah Close- Field Museum [|www.fieldmuseum.org] Through the Field Museums virtual field trips you can follow the real expeditions of scientists all over the world. Students can choose from over 15 different sites to follow the process of the expeditions. The sites are in countries varying from the United States to China. The students can choose expeditions that are conducting studies on things such as plants, lions, and dinosaurs. Students can also read dispatches and receive e-mails from the scientists themselves to continue their knowledge of the projects. Videos are available to witness science in action. The site also includes background of why the expeditions are there and what they are looking for.

Chiquita Richmond- virtual field trip connections [] I really like this website because of the detailed arrangement of the activities. The students can see historical locations of the world and different examples of classrooms and lesson plans. The website gives all vital information on the event or location for others to understand the monumental value of the sites. The page relates to every subject firld of study and can be used to educate people on the accomplishments of America. The page gives options to view different museums or the white house and give less fortunate students a real chance to be around history. Most fieldtrips do not leave the surrounding towns, but with the website a child can view the U.S.A for free. This website is great for teaching about social studies, science methods, and literature practice.

Bobby Gasca- Museum of Science and Industry [] I really liked this web site on the virtual tour for the Museum of Science and Industry. It is great because now we can go to their website and take a virtual tour. They have many exhibits available to learn about online. This is perfect for the low budget school that can’t afford to take a field trip. Once you click on this link, there are many different links to more information, pictures, and even videos on many different subjects. I think that students would really like to use this type of technology in the classroom because it allows them to explore the museum on their own within the website.

Katie LaBorence- Tramline Virtual Field Trips http://www.field-guides.com/trips.htm This website has a list of a lot of things around the world that a teacher can show the class during a virtual field trip. Most of the virtual field trips that are available are in the science field. However, there are other virtual field trips available that have to do with historic times. This website does not pick out certain landmarks in the world to visit, but it deals with broader topics around the world that most students would not get a chance to see. Some of the examples of the field trips that are available are field trips of the oceans, deserts, and the Dark Ages.

Sarah Tipton- Tramline [] Virtual field trips are a good way to save a lot of time and money. Basically a virtual field trip is a fun exciting field trip that stays in the classroom. Yet, students are still ably to look at pictures and videos and see the different sites of the places they are visiting. Virtual allows it to seem and feel real in order to get the same affect as you would when really there. Permission slips and chaperones are too much hassle and too much planning, also much more money is spended then there should be. Tramline is an online educational field trips in the classroom, how convenient! Students are allowed to make their own field trips as well, which may be similar to a digital story in a way. A few field trips which are available on Tramline are rainforests, endangered species, volcanoes, shakespeare, presidents, etc.

Ashlee Preston - Virtual Field Trips [] I like this website because it takes you anywhere in the world. When I was looking through some if the links that are listed on the website, they give you some information that is going on if you decide on taking a trip the specific spot. I would think the students would enjoy this website very much. I think this will be helpful to do projects and reports in class by finding out information on the sites that the students and the teacher want to learn about. I was shocked on what the links on the website add to provide.

Jennifer Hess- Web Museums [|MIdge Frazel] This site has links that would be best for a teacher to go to. They have museums, plantations, histories, and well known place. One of the links on this site called Plymouth Plantation. It has a video tour, I thought that was awesome, because most of the virtual tours I have found is mostly pictures and there’s stories by the pictures. I thought that was mostly boring, but when they have video tour. It really made me feel I was there. It was very creative too, because during the tour they would show a map of where the place is or whatever.

Connie Bernert- VIRTUALFT [] This site has just about any subject you can think of. While most of the subject matter contains objectives, concepts, and terms to learn, and teacher’s resources which include other educational links, lesson plans, related book, additional research. Some of the field trips are interactive as well, where you can actually click on an item in the picture or video and jump to another website with additional information on that item. For example my personal favorite was the one labeled Oceans and as you watch the virtual tour a slide shows several items you may find in an ocean such as whales or squid and even scuba divers, if you click on one of these items it brings you to another site where you can learn how deep you would find that item, and other fun facts.

Aaron Porzelius PBS.org [] “Online Adventure: Secrets of Easter Island” I thought that this website was very interesting; it’s put together by Nova and PBS, which are to reliable sources. The home page is bright yellow, which will draw students in right away. It’s also has a picture of one of the heads from Easter Island, and a heading that makes it very clear on what it is about. The website allows you to click around and visit different informational parts that included pictures. I feel that this website, though it is not a video clip, is a very well put together virtual field trip because it is set up in a way that will keep the students attentions while giving them lots of information.

Katia Petsas – Virtual Field Trips [] This is a website that teachers can use to pick out many field trips that range anywhere from the fairy tale three little pigs to the Titanic. It has many different subjects for any teacher to use. With many different categories or subjects for them to choose from. It is very simple to use and makes it interesting for the elementary grade level to keep them involved in the project/activity. I think that this website will be useful to use for many teachers except for fine arts, because there are not many subjects/topics to look at for virtual field trips.

Joshua Faretta- Sue at The Field Museum [] I think that this virtual field trip was awesome. I found out so many different things about Sue that I didn’t have a clue about. When you take the trip you are in complete control of it. Which I think is a very neat feature, your able to stop and ask your class questions or take questions. It is very interactive as well, with little side features that you have to click to proceed with the trip. It brings you back to Sue’s time with all of Sue’s plant life and other dinosaurs. Probably the coolest experience of the whole assignment, it kept me learning and it kept it fun.

Veronica Vargas- Aquifer Virtual Field Trip  __[] __

Aquifer is a website which takes students on a virtual fieldtrip to learn about water, the hydrologic cycle, sources of contamination, and much more. This website is perfect for teachers who want their students to explore the environmental impacts to drinking water and etc. Students learn how and why it is important to protect the sources of drinking water. The site includes various interesting pictures of drilling a well and sinkholes. It also includes teacher resources and activities that can be done after doing the virtual fieldtrip. I really liked this website because students can learn a lot of information about an everyday factor.

Casey Sandoval- Age of Exploration [] Virtual Fieldtrips I think is a really good idea. It is a way to go anywhere in the world without leaving the computer. It is a way to mix it up a bit and change the regular day of learning. Not every school can afford to take its students on field trips but almost every school has internet excitability. It is not the same as going on a field trip but at least the student can have some what of an idea of what a field trip is like. I think it is a shame to know that there are some schools that can not afford to take there students on at least on school fieldtrip but it is awesome to no the technology is helping out.

Jake Kelley-Virtual Field Trips [] This site I felt would be a great source for any teacher. It could prove to be very budgeting friendly to all schools to look into this website or a similar one. The first page branches off into three sections; take a field trip, make a field trip, and visit related sites. This is a great way to make sure that viewers can access a large quantity of virtual field trips by providing the viewers with similar links to see. The link “virtual field trips” provides a vast selection of virtual field trips for all sorts of subjects. Some of which include math, social sciences, career selections, fine arts, and foreign languages. All in all, this site is a great resource for any teacher when a real field trip is out of the question.

Tiffany Wrinkle-Field Trips.org [] This website is a neat website with a number of different virtual field trips for multiple grades. Most of them are Science related, but there are a few others that are on other subjects like, film making, da Vinci, New York City, Pi, Business, and a few others. I think virtual field trips are wonderful for getting students drawn into their learning. Having them interact with the computer is the perfect way to get this next generation interested and involved. I only wish that the computer was more widely used when I was in school so that we could have done these types of things!