Free Virtual Field Trips

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Travel to famous places and experience distant locales without ever leaving the house!

Check out some world-renowned museums up close and personal!

See animals interacting in their habitats from your home!

These websites offer not only virtual tours but also educational and interactive videos and even games. Spend the afternoon expanding your walls and your brain with our list of FREE virtual field trips.

Locations

Yellowstone National Park-  Check out the park’s famous geysers and landscapes from home

Buckingham Palace – See the home of the Queen of England.

Colonial Williamsburg With eight webcams, you can check out most of Williamsburg

Anne Frank House – Anne Frank’s home in Amsterdam is featured on this 360-degree tour

Ancient Egypt– Pyramid tours and lots of other cool info can be found at this website.

Ellis Island  Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…  Check out Ellis Island’s tour here.

Holy Land Tour – Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and other cities of the Bible are featured

The Great Lakes– Find out about the coastlands and also dive deep.

Great Wall of China – Walk along the Great Wall of China with this panoramic tour

Easter Island PBS brings you a tour of the famous Easter Island

Mars – Learn about Mars and space exploration with a 360-degree tour of the surface of the Red Planet

Explore the Galaxy– Find planets, watch a solar eclipse, check out over 60,000 stars

Pharmaceutical Labs– Learn how scientists are developing medicines

Castles Around the World– Virtual tours of castles, castles, castles.

Silicone Valley– Students can meet the scientists being us the tech for tomorrow

The Birthplaces of Music– Explore four cities where the genres of classical, jazz, rock ‘n roll, and country music started

The International Space Station– Bring your 3-D glasses for this narrated tour.

Yosemite National Park– Explore the falls, the swinging bridge, and more.

Mount Vernon– Take a virtual tour of the homeplace of George Washington

Museums

Boston Children’s Museum- Explore this fun museum just for kids.

The Louvre Museum – Explore exhibits at this famous art museum in Paris, France.

The Smithsonian– Experience a virtual tour of this famous DC museum.

Metropolitan Museum of Art– Get to view over 26 galleries at The Met

The National Constitution Center Check out where the Constitution was written

US Space and Rocket Center– Come to Huntsville, Alabama for this cool tour

The Holocaust Museum– A sobering account of the Holocaust with videos of exhibits.

The Van Gogh Museum– See a video all about this museum in Amsterdam featuring the work of Van Gogh.

Animals

Houston Zoo – Live webcams let you keep track of animal families

Farm Food 360– Visit a dairy farm and a sheep farm while learning about milk and cheese

Monterey Bay Aquarium – Check out the soothing jellyfish cam and others!

Panda Cam at Zoo Atlanta– Watch the Pandas playing in their habitat

The San Diego Zoo -See the baboons, penguins, elephants, tigers, giraffes, and more.

Georgia Aquarium Ocean Voyager– Hang out for a while so you can catch the whale shark!

Virtual Tour of the National Aquarium – Check out displays from this aquarium in Washington, DC.

Seattle Aquarium– A full 30-minute demonstration with help from a diver talking from underwater.

All About Eggs– Don’t miss these tours of poultry and egg farms

Polar Bears On the Tundra – Check out Tundra Connections on Discovery Education

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