http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html
The Teacher's Guide is a website that provides a list of virtual tours offered by various different museums and community trips. It offers tours of The Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, The Sistine Chapel, The Great Wall of China, Gettysburg, and The American Museum of Natural History to name a few. Many times these places can seem so distant and detached from our small town. Having the children do an assignment and work through a virtual tour on a computer can make a unit or lesson more tangible. It provides us with a free experience that can take a lesson to the next level.
http://www.learn360.com/index.aspx
Learn 360 is an educational video database. While there are many websites that stream videos out there, Learn 360 is only focused on educational videos. Just type in a subject in the search bar and it provides you with videos about the subject and the age level that it would be appropriate for. Many of the videos are short so they're fantastic for introducing a lesson, closing a lesson, or expanding on a lesson.
Hi Brecca,
ReplyDeleteHow did you find these websites? I really liked the first website you found. I think something like that would be extremely useful in the classroom. Like you said, places like that seem so distant and impossible to reach for us, however websites like these make them very tangible and real and open our kids' eyes to so much more. Do you have to pay to use this website?
Good job Brecca!