![]() ![]() You and your students can visit the Uffizi in Florence, The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, The Getty in L.A., and a whole lot more. Google’s Arts and Culture Site is almost absurdly extensive. Explore World-Renowned Art through Google’s Arts and Culture Site Check out the Native Knowledge 360 Education Initiative website to learn all about the resources available (and find out about educator workshops too!). Maybe you’re studying The Marrow Thieves, Ceremony, The Birchbark House, Snake Falls to Earth, or poetry by Joy Harjo – it’s a perfect time to put together a webquest and dive into the online collection. They’re also working on a range of virtual field trip options which they’ll announce soon. (like most of us), they have extensive online collections. is free to enter, but if you don’t happen to live in D.C. The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. Screenshot from The National Museum of the American Indian Native Knowledge 360 Website Link: Holocaust Museum of LA Free Virtual Tours for StudentsĬontact: Claudia Marquez, Museum Tours Manager, at National Museum of the American Indian You could spend several days preparing for this virtual trip, then a highly impactful class period experiencing it. ![]() The tour includes an introduction to the holocaust, an introduction to the museum’s history, a tour of the collection and optionally a talk from a Holocaust survivor and/or a Q & A portion with a Holocaust survivor. Maybe you’re studying The Diary of Anne Frank, Night, Refugee, Maus, or All The Light We Cannot See? Try pairing a virtual trip to the museum with your unit. Part of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum’s mission is to provide free tours to students. Screenshot from the Holocaust Museum Website You can listen in to episode 198 below, click here to tune in on any podcast player, or read on for the full post. Let’s talk about virtual field trips, because there are a lot more options out there than you might think! Whether they’re already curated online, waiting for you to design a webquest around them, or even shared in person over Zoom by a museum curator or volunteer. But that doesn’t mean you can’t set up some truly broadening experiences for your students from right within your classroom walls. Today, I want to share some ideas for field trips you can take without a bus, and without a budget. I remember field trips from my school experience too – to learn about wolves at Minnesota’s Wolf Center in 5th grade, to hike through snowy fields and see the stars on a seventh grade overnight, to examine the inside of a mine on Minnesota’s Iron Range when I got older.Ī field trip is a powerful thing, and it can come in so many forms. ![]() Probably 95% of the kids’ recollections revolved around special, memorable events that didn’t happen every week – a trip to Austria, a trip to the river, a trip to a kitchen space where they learned to cook a lunch and then eat it following a project-based-learning unit on restaurant design. As I sat in the warm theater watching my son’s sixth grade class recount their favorite memories of school last week, I couldn’t help but notice how many of them involved a field trip. ![]()
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