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Virtual field trip! From the site: "AROUNDER gives travelers a vivid sense of what a city has to offer: historical cathedrals and works of art, museums featuring famous artists, local cafes and stores, breathtaking mountain-top views, quiet parks and gardens. Each issue contains a series of interesting panoramas giving you a full immersive view of the cities. Navigation is easy with Google maps of the city and surrounding area. Every issue also links to local merchants with virtual tours of hotels, restaurants, spas and stores."

A great site that lets you organise volunteers/parents for your events. Useful for meeting your adult/pupil ratio on school trips. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

Go on virtual field trips using Google Treks created by Dr. Alice Christie

"A new report, published today by King's College London, shows the findings of four projects that for the first time in the UK placed Nursery, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children in their local museum for extended residencies. The groups undertook many of their daily lessons and activities at their local museums for a period of between two weeks and up to a full term."

Creative way to practice math (place value and number line) Also is a virtual field trip to EA Madden NFL Video Games where they talk about the different jobs and people it takes to make a football game.

Awesome website to help collect data about animals in the wild from trip cameras!

Selected educators will receive one year of PD including virtual training, exclusive resources and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C.

New ways to trip up plagiarism detection software and online cheating.

Draw  Import Organize Style your Google Maps. Great tool for organising a trip with students and let them collaborate and learning new skills.

Google Earth trips that go hand in hand with novels.

Download .kml/.kmz files for Google Earth to explore literature.

Free online magazine for teachers, featuring articles on Minecraft in the classroom, Project based learning, subject knowledge, value of field trips, and using GPS to enhance learning.

Created by ETV for K-12 students, teachers, and parents, Knowitall.org is a free online collection of resources designed for classroom use. This educational web portal contains interactive sites, simulations, image collections, virtual field trips and streaming video that support and provide quality inquiry-based experiences for students on the Internet.