✈️ These virtual field trips will WOW students

🌎 Check out our virtual field trips online course

A trip can be a magical, transformational experience for students.

But taking students on a trip isn't all sunshine and rainbows — with buses, permission slips, emails, etc.

What if you could get the next best thing -- and go on those trips much more often?

Welcome to the world of virtual field trips.

In our online mini-course, Getting Started with Virtual Field Trips, you’ll learn how.

You’ll learn 10 great places to find virtual field trips.

Plus, you’ll get our virtual field trips database — only available in the course! — with 500+ virtual field trips.

🌎 Learn more and register: Getting Started with Virtual Field Trips

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

✈️ Virtual Field Trips: Bringing the World to Your Classroom

Virtual Field Trips open windows to the world, allowing students to explore the world without ever leaving the classroom.

They are a great way to spice up your lessons and take your students on amazing adventures.

Virtual field trips are online experiences that let you explore places and topics that would be otherwise difficult or impossible to visit in person. They can help you build background knowledge, spark curiosity, and make connections to the real world.

Over the years we have curated a growing library of free virtual field trips all over the world and even beyond.

Whether you want to tour a museum, a farm, a space station, or even the White House, there’s a virtual field trip for you.

Here are our best virtual field trip resources …

• A whole library of free virtual field trips on our virtual field trips page.

• Our blog post where you’ll find 25 virtual field trips plus 10 extension activity ideas for your class.

• Enroll in our online course: Getting Started with Virtual Field Trips

• Our virtual field trips Wakelet collection where you can find ALL of the resources above plus even more. (You can also get our Wakelet collections sent straight to your inbox by clicking on the subscribe button next to our name!)

💻 Tech Tip

Take a trip with Google Maps Immersive View

Google Maps is a powerful tool for exploring and navigating the world, and it just got even better with a new feature called Immersive View.

Immersive View uses artificial intelligence to create 3D models of popular places from flat images, allowing you to see them from different angles and perspectives.

You can also see how the places look at different times of day or in various weather conditions, thanks to a time slider. Immersive View can help you plan your trips, preview your routes, and discover new things to do in your destination.

Immersive View is available for landmarks, restaurants, and other buildings in 15 cities around the world, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, and more.

You can access Immersive View on both Android and iOS devices, by following these simple steps:

1. Open Google Maps (maps.google.com) and search for a place in one of the supported cities. For example, the Eiffel Tower.

2. Tap the Immersive View card from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the screen.

3. Explore the location like you usually do on Google Maps and Street View. You can zoom in, rotate, and tilt the view to see the details.

4. Tap the Time & Weather icon at the bottom to see how the location looks at different times of day. You can also see the weather forecast for the next few days.

5. Scroll left and right on the slider at the bottom to see the scenery change as the weather changes throughout the day.

Immersive View is a great way to enhance your Google Maps it can help students visualize and understand different cultures, landmarks, and environments. Immersive View can spark curiosity, creativity, and engagement in the classroom, and inspire students to explore the world.

👋 How we can help

There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:

1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.

3. Bring me to your school, district, or event to speak. I love working with educators!