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With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the trip, journal, the virtual visit (a streaming video), an Ask the expert tool, and a hosted web chat.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

This site lists a colelction of mainly science and health-related virtual field trips and online labs.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, "interactive environments," travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits.

Here is a collection of virtual field trip sites.

Really Cool PBS resource called Election Central. It covers all aspects of the election process. It includes lesson plans, videos, virtual field trips, inside the debates as well as an interactive map of the election. There is also a resource called Election Collection which has a variety of historical election information and resources. Great resource of educators and students.

Educational Alternatives to Pokemon Go

This site has virtual fieldtrips that teachers can explore. There is also a link to create, add and edit your own virtual fieldtrips.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Students can view and learn about museum artifacts and air and space history.