Virtual field trips allow students to vicariously visit and learn about places, people, and events they cannot experience first hand. This interactive expedition to Africa, conducted in the last quarter of 1998, sought to answer some of the greatest mysteries of our world. This trek was conducted by the same team of experts that produced the classic MayaQuest Expedition in 1997-1998. Your class can follow these and other expeditions while communicating with the travelers, reading their reports, and accessing the sounds and sights they come across. The multimedia informational reports these explorers post to the web site allow students to learn about the customs, talents, geography, and resources of the locations they visit.
Students have the option of following one of the explorers or the whole team.
So much information is provided for each location that this project can be used for almost every curricular area. Provides on-line expeditions to distant places, such as Arctic, Central America, and Egypt. An ongoing series of electronic field trips to scientific frontiers via interactive television and the Internet for middle schools. Supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and PBS K-12 Learning Services. Some projects ask students to contribute poetry, stories, experiences, thoughts, or other writing or they ask students to investigate research questions.