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Web-based Virtual Field Trips

Here are links to various places students can virtually visit. These are also known as "electronic field trips," "virtual tours," or "virtual visits." You can visit Antarctica, a rain forest, Mars, a computer store, a women's shelter, a Yoruba naming ceremony, a bank, realtor, state legislature, medical center, and a variety of companies that offer virtual tours.

Classroom Virtual Visits

http://www.alri.org/visits/vvclass.html

http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/school.htm

Electronic Field Trips

http://literacynet.org/science/trips.html

http://campus.fortunecity.com/newton/40/field.html

Plant Tours on the Internet
This is a list of links to many virtual tours of factories, primarily in the U.S.

http://bradley.bradley.edu/~rf/plantour.htm

Virtual World Simulations

Virtual Economy, Virtual Developing Country, Virtual Learning Arcade, Virtual Bank, Virtual Factory and Virtual Farm

http://bized.ac.uk/virtual/home.htm

Virtual Tours
Virtual Tours is a collection of tours for the World, Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest
and the U.S. Government.

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/tours.html

Virtual Visits
A group of students visits a place they are interested in: a computer store, bank, realtor, health center, state legislature, etc. and records their visit and it's now a virtual visit on the Web. This site explains what these are, how to make them and has links to virtual visit pages students have made.

http://www.alri.org/visits/vv.html

Virtual Field Trips Site
Field Trips include: Deserts, Hurricanes, Insects and Minibeasts, Natural Wonders of the World, Oceans, Salt Marshes, Sharks, Tornadoes, andVolcanoes

http://www.field-guides.com/

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