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Virtual Field Trips
You can’t venture
out into public to visit landmarks and popular attractions, but you can still take a field trip, via technology. (Plus no bumpy bus ride or 20+ screaming kids to deal with.)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Boeing offers looks at the Johnson Space Center and more through its Future U website (www.boeingfutureu. com/virtual-field-trip). Or check out how manufacturing works with virtual field trip vid- eos from ManufactureYour Future.com (https://bit.ly/33D- JGvp).
Arizona State University immerses students in 360-degree images shot at sci- entific points of interest all over the world at https://vft.asu. edu/. Locations include the Grand Canyon, a Panamanian rainforest, Australian archaeo- logical sites, Mesoamerican pyramids in Mexico and the terrain of Mars.
The Nature Conservancy (https://bit.ly/397orDi) also offers online virtual tours of everything from the deserts and grasslands of Africa to an island powered entirely by solar energy to a scuba diving adventure in the waters off the Dominican Republic.
Screenshot of the Cold War Gallery from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s virtual tour website.
U.S. AIR FORCE
well as a milk and cheese pro- cessing facility, among others.
ARTS AND CULTURE
You can even visits many museums across the globe vir- tually. Good Housekeeping rounds up the best offerings at https://bit.ly/2WFvZL4. (They also include zoos, aquariums and theme parks.)
Check out Google Arts and Culture’s massive collection at https://artsandculture.google. com, including a guided tour option.
ANIMALS
You could also let kids explore Google Earth (www. google.com/earth), which combines satellite and aerial images into what Google bills as “the world’s most detailed globe.” “Visit” natural and manmade wonders all over the world, state and national parks, monuments, historical sites and more. Fly over the Matterhorn or hover over the Great Barrier Reef. Read “knowledge cards,” which pro- vide basic info about land-
marks. (“The Eiffel tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champs de Mars in Paris, France.”) You also can see addi- tional photographs of many locations.
Technology makes it easy to take a trip to the zoo. Tune in to the panda cam at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., the Atlanta Zoo or the San Diego Zoo. The Cincinnati Zoo is offering Facebook Live videos called Home Safari each weekday, in which zookeepers introduce
viewers to a zoo animal and answer questions live. The first episode saw Fiona the hippo greeting eager viewers from her enclosure at the zoo.
Aquariums offer similar vir- tual experiences. Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Jellycam” to see what the jelly- fish are up to, or take a virtual tour of the National Aquarium or Seattle Aquarium.
At www.farmfood360.ca, you can take a tour of all things agriculture: a grain farm, chick- en, pig, sheep and cow arms, as