Sep 08 2009
The Best Sites Where Students Can Plan Virtual Trips
A nice geography lesson is to have students plan a trip to some location (or locations). There are several web tools that make doing this pretty easy — it’s just a matter of identifying where you want to go, looking through the sites to see in those places, and then “dragging-and-dropping” them onto a list that you can subsequently post on a student or teacher website/blog. Most of these sites also allow you to write a description of your trip (and why you chose the places you did), but students can do the same on their own site, too.
Even better, most of these sites also let users comment on places they have visited, which make them an excellent place for students to write for an authentic audience about locations they have really visited (which can include local spots).
Here are the sites that I think are most accessible to English Language Learners and let them plan these kinds of virtual trips (not in order of preference):
Tripwolf just today announced a revamping of their site that makes it much more accessible.
You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Finding And Creating Virtual Field Trips.
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Hi Larry,
Thanks for another useful post. You may like to add two virtual tours from the Melbourne Museum – “A Day in Pompeii” at http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/discoverycentre/pompeii/virtual-exhibition/ and the “Dinosaur Walk” at http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/discoverycentre/dinosaur-walk/virtual-exhibition/
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