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Electronic Field Trips

Visit Colonial Williamsburg

Electronic Field Trip

http://www.history.org/History/teaching/eft.cfm

Today the fourth grade class will visit Colonial Williamsburg located in the state of Virginia. This visual field trip will enhance our lessons on colonial life.

The field trip provides the following;

1.) Tour of Colonial Williamsburg with guides that are

Experts on Early American history

2.) Variety of Field trips to choose from-

Examples: Clothing, Food, Historic Buildings

3.) The field trip will also provide several other

Internet links About Colonial Williamsburg

4.) Teachers can create worksheets to be used in the

classroom and overhead transparencies.

5.) Teachers can even review the video of the field

Trip ahead of time

Sea Turtles Endangered Ocean navigators

Electronic Field trip

http://www.efieldtrips.org/SeaTurtles/index.htm

This colorful graphic movie video field trip provides the following:

1.) A description of the many different kinds of Sea turtles.

2.) How this ocean navigator is at risk of becoming threatened and endangered

3.) How Sea turtles protect their Eggs

4.) Information about the Sea Turtle Habitat

5.) Sign on link to view many more Electronic field trips

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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History

http://www.projectview.org/ProjectIndex/ElectronicFieldTrips.htm

This electronic field trip is sponsored by Project VIEW, a Federal Technology Innovative Challenge Grant. The VIEW develops relationships with museums, zoos, and libraries to create the field trips. The front page of the site provides an index of a variety other links provided VIEW. The field trip above explains the construction of planes, rockets, and shuttle and how they each fly. Along with the link are twelve lessons provided by the Smithsonian Institute. They also provide the New York state educational standards for each field trip.

Windows in Wonderland

Yellowstone National Park

http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/

The electronic field trips provided by Yellowstone National Park are designed for grades 5-8. There is a Park Orientation index where individuals can load a 50 minute audio and video field trip.

Lesson plans are also available on the site for educators.