One is for children ages 4-9, one for kids 10-13 and one for high school students. This link has three different videos for students to tour a dairy farm. These videos are from the American Dairy Association. Then you can choose from a variety of videos, most are about 5-6 minutes long. To share specific videos with your students, click on Video Highlights. In addition to live cameras, there are numerous pre-recorded videos of elephants, leopards, lions, cheetahs and many other animals. Students can watch live video cameras of the African savanna. Healthy reefs protect nearby shorelines and wetlands, and are home to thousands of species of fishes and corals. Coral reefs are among the most diverse and valuable ecosystems on Earth.

Students can view many different species of tropical fish, including stingrays, clown fish, scrawled filefish and Cortez angelfish. This is a coral reef cam from the Atlant Aquarium. There are also links to read facts about pandas and to learn information about the panda park. When you go to the website you can choose from watching a live video stream or highlight videos of the baby pandas.

This is a video cam from the Happiness Village Baby Panda Park in Gengda, Sichuan, China. The list is not in any specific order, but I did try to include ones more suitable for older students at the end. Of course they would work for home-schooled students and classroom teachers just as well. So I have compiled a list of a few virtual trips that I think would be perfect to use with your students during a library lesson. There are so many websites and Facebook posts on all the different places students can “visit”, but as always it is so time-consuming trying to wade through everything. For example, you can easily tie almost any field trip into a research unit (if there is time left in the school year). And there are numerous ways to connect a field trip to what you are teaching in the library. Plus, you are not limited to visiting places within driving distance of your school. You do not need to collect permission slips and money, book buses, arrange for lunch and organize the 600 parents to want to chaperone. There are many advantages of taking a virtual field trip. I always wanted to join in when second grade goes to Mt. As librarians, we usually do not get to participate in field trips. Going on a field trip is a day that your students will always remember.

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