Virtual Field Trips Beyond Florida
Virtual Trips for Kids
(of any age)
Music
NPR: A List of Live Virtual Concerts To Watch During the Coronavirus Shut-down. This is no longer being updated (as of June) but many of the links are still active.
Metropolitan Opera House Nightly Streams: The streaming opera changes weekly-only available for a limited online run.
Billboard: A running list of the live streams and virtual concerts during Covid-19. There’s also a weekly list, like the one here for the week of September 14, 2020.
Consequence of Sound: A list of live virtual concerts and events to watch.
Museums
Source: Roberto Nickson
→ The Smithsonian Learning Lab: Digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. As well as distance learning (for example, talking with astronauts).
→ The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Online Exhibits
→ The National Women’s History Museum: Online Exhibits and Past Electronic Fieldtrips
→ The Spy Museum: Virtual Tour and Resources
→Virtual Field Trip to the Egyptian Pyramids from TripSavvy. This is a roundup of links for various age groups from different sources.
→National Geographic Virtual Tour of Sơn Đoòng which is the largest natural cave in the world. This cave is in Vietnam. The tour is through a section of the mapped cave with high-res images and information on the ecosystem.
→The British Museum: Ages 3-16+ Resources
→Smithsonian Museum Collections (all sub-museums included) virtual tour and multimedia tools and resources
Science
→ Virtual School Activities: Live webcams, virtual trips, educational websites.
→ Disney Parks x Khan Academy’s ‘Imagineering in a Box’: A free online program that showcases how Disney Imagineers share how they use a wide range of skills – from story development and conceptual design to math, physics, and engineering – to create immersive experiences.
→ NASA’s Curiosity Rover Webpage: This includes information about the Mars mission, Curiosity, Camera, Video, and Media Resources. Another webpage from NASA is the NASA Science Mars Exploration Program, which covers information about Mars (the planet), the program, news, missions, pictures, and multimedia.
→ NASA Mission Control: Virtual Tour
→ National Park Service: Virtual park tours, webcams, pictures, podcasts for several National Parks.
→ Yosemite National Park: Virtual Tour
→ Bill Nye: Home Experiments
→ Discovery Education: Virtual Fieldtrips for various situations, careers, and sports.
→ 360 Degree Cities: Spaces and Cities with virtual excursions and images.
Animals, zoos, and Aquariums
→Georgia Aquarium: The Georgia Aquarium nine animal cams featuring Beluga Whales, Southern Sea Otter, Piranhas, California Sea Lion, Gators, Jellies, Pacific Reef, African Penguin, and the Ocean Voyager exhibit. The Georgia Aquarium also has a Youtube channel, which features several of their animals.
→Smithsonian National Zoo: The online cams include Cheetah Cub, Elephants, Naked-Mole Rat, Lion, Giant Panda, and Black-Footed Ferret. The Smithsonian National Zoo also has a Youtube channel.
→Dublin Zoo Webcams: The came feature Elephants, Penguins and the African Savanna. The Dublin Zoo’s Youtube channel can be found here.
→San Diego Zoo: Their animal cams feature Apes, Baboons, Burrowing Owl, Condor, Elephant, Giraffe, Koala, Panda, Penguin, Polar Bear, and Tigers. Their Youtube channel.
→Edinburgh Zoo: There are five animal cameras that feature Pandas, Penguins, Tigers, Koalas, and Lions. Their Youtube channel can be found here.
→Zoo Atlanta: The Panda Camera. More animals and happenings can be seen on their Youtube page.
→AfriCam: A nature camera from remote parts of the African Bush.
→Alaska Zoo: Features the Polar Bear Camera. Their Youtube page features other animals like tigers and black bears.
→Wolf Conservation Center: Their are eight different cams focusing on different wolves and wolf families.
→Monterey Bay Aquarium: Many animal cams, including Aviary Cam, Coral Reef, Jelly, Kelp Forest, Monterey Bay (the actual bay), Moon Jelly, Open Sea, Penguin, Sea Otter, and Shark. Their youtube channel features several live streams and behind the scenes of the Aquarium.
***Many other cities and countries have animal cams or social media channels. These are just a few to get started.***
Literary, Read-Alouds and Audiobooks
→ Story Time from Space: Children’s books read in a few different languages (and a few read from the International Space Station by an astronaut onboard).
→ The Big List of Children’s Authors doing Read-Alounds and Activities via WeAreTeachers.com.
→ LeVar Burton Reads (various short stories) from his podcast.
→ Free Audiobooks for Teen Readers (age 13+) from April 30 to July 29.
Image via Kimberly Farmer
→ Scholastic’s Learn From Projects, from K-9th Grade.
→Operation Story Time: Romper via Twitter Feed (scroll down to see options)
→Josh Gad Reads The Giving Tree (via Twitter BRoadcast)
Additional
PBS Kids (opens with noise)
Curiosity Stream Youtube Channel (snippets from programs)