Home Sweet HomeSchool is an online business that offers all sorts of materials for homeschoolers. That material includes an array of virtual field trips that visit remote areas in Africa, Asia, Australia, China, Egypt and Israel, which allow you to travel around the world from your computer. They also provide virtual trips to an array of castles and museums. Some of the videos provide exact 360-degree tours each time, while others include a live camera that updates itself every 30 seconds.
At HomeEducator.com, your can enjoy educational videos of particular places. One trip takes you on a 12-minute trip to outer space, from takeoff in the spaceship to landing on a planet. Real images were collected from NASA for this video. Another trip takes you on a virtual tour of a dairy farm, explaining each step in the process, from caring for the cows to delivery of the milk to the grocery stores. Other videos include castle tours, a tour of the White House, a safari tour and a tour of Mount Everest.
LDS Homeschooling in California is a website that provides many virtual field trip options. They separate the trips into categories, such as “Museums and other Buildings,” “Virtual Nature and Science Tours,” “Regional Tours,” “Virtual Factory Tours” and “Time Travel Tours,” to name a few. Each category contains 10 to 50 options of virtual trips. The museum category offers tours of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, the Betsy Ross House, the Museum of World War II and many other historical places. The time travel tours take you back in time, visually, which a non-virtual field trip could never offer.
My Homeschool Guide offers virtual field trips to places that a standard classroom field trip might visit. These tours are made up of photographs, panoramic movies, live cameras and other multimedia presentations. Places include the CIA Museum, the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History, the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, the San Diego Zoo, the John F. Kennedy Space Center, the Louvre, and National Geographic expeditions.
MeetMeAtTheCorner.org not only provides virtual field trips, but all of the videos are interactive, educational and kid-friendly. For example, one video tours the Thomas Edison National Historical Museum, and a man that is portraying Thomas Edison is interviewed and answers questions in a way that the real Edison might have answered. The site also offers puppet shows and podcasts made by other children, and you and your students can create and submit your own homemade video anytime you wish.