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Explore over 300 ideas that you can use in your classroom to educate, inspire, and delight your students.
You’ll find ideas that are grouped by video, and a set of ideas that are universal.
5 Reasons Why You Should Use Virtual Field Trips in Your Classroom
By: Monica Burns, Ed.D.
There are lots of ways that students can interact with content in your classroom. From reading a book on a topic, to having a whole class discussion, teachers use lots of different strategies to help students understand a new idea. Virtual field trips, like the ones you can find on this site, help students paint a picture of the words in their text. These types of experiences can help….more
10 Inspirational Ideas to Make All Virtual Field Trips More Memorable
By: Dale Petersen, M.Ed.
Few would argue about the benefits associated with Virtual Field Trips. Time-savings, budget-friendliness, convenience, and learning value are just a few.
It’s quite a leap, though, to know how to extract as much value as possible from using VFTs in the classroom. Listed below are 10 ideas that can ….more
How To Choose the Right Virtual Field Trip
By: Dale Petersen, M.Ed.
So you want to take your students on a trip somewhere. You’ve already established that a virtual field trip is the way to go for a myriad of reasons. However, the potential reach of virtual field trips (VFTs) knows no bounds. You can take your students to any time or place. As appealing as this sounds, how can you then decide where you should go? Even more, how can you decide whether that particular field trip is right for your group of students? ….more
What Are Virtual Field Trips?
By: Dale Petersen, M.Ed.
I’m sure we all have strong memories of field trips we’ve taken during our school days. For various reasons, students don’t have the same opportunities available to them these days. The good news is that a reasonable, and sometimes superior, substitute experience is the virtual field trip. What is a virtual field trip, you ask?
Generally speaking, a virtual field trip is a digital and/or online exploration based on a specific theme. Virtual field trips are usually ….more
Frequently Asked Questions
“I took my students on a Virtual Trip to the Amazon today! They told me this field trip was much better than the one we went on from Discovery Education!!!“
“You have brightened my day, as I have looked extensively for high quality virtual trips, and your site is clearly one of the best I’ve found!”
“I just want to let you know how much of a blessing this site has been to me and to my students during this pandemic. The theme in my classroom is “travel.” We have been able to continue with this theme by having weekly field trips. It is the highlight of everyone’s week. This was by far one of the best purchases I made this year.”
“I teach 9th graders who are 2 to 3 years behind in their reading and writing. They are also socioeconomically disadvantaged with not many experiences to write about. I thought this would give them something to write about as well as be educational and enjoyable. We do one each Monday and they love them! They ask, “Where are we going today?”
“My 6th grade students are always excited to learn through reading and the Virtual Field Trips site. The videos are incredibly engaging and informative. The ease of use is very appreciated as a teacher pressed for time.”
“Your videos and accompanying lesson ideas are very helpful and high quality.”
“I use the Virtual Field Trips site and the students LOVE it. Learning by virtually experiencing has been highly successful for my students. A few of our favorites are the Amazon, Coral Reefs, African Safari, and Rome.”
“I use the Virtual Field Trips site and the students LOVE it. Learning by virtually experiencing has been highly successful for my students. A few of our favorites are the Amazon, Coral Reefs, African Safari, and Rome.”
Thank you very, very much for including your site for free during distance learning. You made the virtual field trips easy for both teachers and children to use. All I had to do was copy the link into my Seesaw activity and my kiddos just tapped on the link and learned about places, people, and things. The DC Tour fit in nicely with their weekly reading selection on U.S. symbols.
I really want to thank Virtual Field Trips for allowing full access during the hardest time of education when we had to switch to remote so suddenly. It was super exciting for the students to tour around the world with just a click! They loved all the videos and naturally the assignments that followed. I really appreciate the support! Thank you thank you thank you!
“My students love these virtual field trips and honestly can’t get enough of them. They ignite awesome writing.“
“I teach grades K-3 Science, Social Studies, Government, Geography, and Economics. I have found Virtual Field Trips videos a valuable piece in many areas. I use an interactive white board on a daily basis and have been able to link the videos into the flip charts making access to them very easy during the lesson. I look forward to more of these quality videos.”
“I really appreciate the value of this site. My students are very much enjoying it. Thank you!”
El Limonar International School in Murcia, Spain absolutely loved Virtual Field Trips when we were given the opportunity to use it in June. There are so many topics included in their library that we study in the Primary School that it is well worth buying into and the children were mesmerized from the moment they began watching. The images were bright and colourful while the commentaries very informative and clear, leading to a lot of discussion afterwards. I definitely recommend it.
“You have a great site with videos that are outstanding. I like how easy your site is to use.”
“My students are in love with your videos”
“My students love these virtual field trips and honestly can’t get enough of them. They ignite awesome writing.“
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Frequently Asked Questions
WHERE ARE THE QUIZZES?
Quizzes are at the bottom of the Full Video page.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the Learning Resources section and you’ll see the quiz file(s).
CAN I SHARE VIDEO LINKS WITH MY STUDENTS?
Yes. When you subscribe you will be given a link to a page that will contain all your subscribed links. These are the links you can share with your students. You won’t be able to successfully share the URL’s from the video pages on the website. Those URL’s will end up showing an error message because they are behind the login wall.
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Our videos are also different because they are closely aligned with the curriculum. In particular the social studies, geography, life science, and ancient civilization curriculums.
Each video is professionally narrated by voice actors. We hope you’ll agree that not many other “educational” videos can say the same.
ARE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR A SCHOOL YEAR OR A CALENDAR YEAR?
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WHAT DO I GET WITH MY SUBSCRIPTION?
Each subscription allows for unlimited video viewing and use of the quizzes. In the case of an individual video subscription, that means unlimited viewing of the single video. A Teacher + Classroom subscription allows unlimited access to all videos on the website, as does a Schoolwide site license.
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER RESOURCES?
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HOW CAN MY STUDENTS ACCESS THE VIDEOS?
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ARE YOUR VIDEOS CLOSED CAPTIONED?
At this moment they are not closed-captioned. We do offer to provide transcripts of a video if that can be of help. It is our intention to have all of our videos closed-captioned as soon as we can, since we appreciate how important this is.
CAN I DOWNLOAD THE VIDEOS?
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