What do you do when you can’t go anywhere?
What is the best way for your children to learn if you can’t leave your house?
These are questions that are on a lot of people’s minds lately.
This is why I wanted to compile a list of the Top Virtual Field Trips and Learning Sites for Your Family.
Travel the world virtually with your family. Visit top museums from the comfort of your own home. And discover some of the best FREE learning websites that are out there for your kids.
Let’s help our children get excited to learn from home and let’s continue to help them learn about our world.
In this post you will find 15 Amazing Virtual Field Trips that you can take with your children
and discover 10 of the Best FREE Learning Websites to help your your kids have fun while learning from home.
Virtual Travel/ Field Trips
The Deserts and Grasslands of Africa
Take a 40 minute educational virtual field trip to Africa. Discover the importance of the grasslands, learn about the people that live there and see the animals that call this area home. This amazing field trip is packed with information and geared towards 3rd-8th graders. Discover Africa in a whole new way!
China’s Great Forests
Go on a virtual educational field trip to China! Visit majestic forests, towering mountains and other iconic landscape of the Sichuan and Yunnan regions in this 35 minute video. Visit the habitat of the golden snub-nosed monkeys, the giant pandas and the odd looking takin. Learn about the role that nature plays in the carbon cycle and the benefits of reforestation. Beautiful photography and tons of information will leave you in complete awe of China! Again this virtual field trip is geared towards children in 3rd-8th grade.
The Coral Reefs of Palau: Nature’s Amazing Underwater Cities
Join an expert marine biologist in this 40 minute virtual educational field trip of the coral reefs of Palau. Discover amazing underwater cities, learn about the incredible animals that live there and find out all about how cool coral really is! Beautiful footage and fun information will keep your 3rd-8th grader’s attention as they learn all about the coral reefs of Palau.
Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
If you’re looking for a shorter virtual field trip, check out this video clip on Kenai Fjords National Park. Explore a glacier, descend into an icy crevasse and even kayak though iceberg rich waters on this virtual tour through Kenai Fjords in Alaska. These short video clips are packed with great information and beautiful photography making this perfect to share with your kids and have them discover a little about Alaska.
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
Explore Nahuku Lava Tube (a cave formed by flowing lava), see the incredible volcanic cliffs where lava met the sea and watch an actively erupting volcano on this short virtual tour through Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
Spectacular photography guides you through this stunning park in a short video clip where you will not only see what’s at Bryce Canyon but also you will get a chance to observe the night sky there. It is unlike anything you’ve probably ever seen.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
Travel 750 feet underground and discover the mysteries of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Stand in the largest single cave chamber in North America and watch hundreds of thousands of bats exit this extraordinary cave in this short video clip. Kids will get to learn all about these bats and will love finding out how they “see” in the dark.
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
Go on an underwater adventure through an incredible coral reef in this short video clip. Learn about the coral that lives there and discover a cool underwater shipwreck in Dry Tortugas National Park.
Virtual Field Trips to Zoos & Aquariums
San Diego Zoo
Go on an adventure to San Diego Zoo with their Zoo Cams! Find out what their animals do while no one is around.
Georgia Aquarium
Enjoy the Live WebCams of Jellyfish, Puffins, Beluga Whales, Sea Otters and their adorable African Penguins on this fun virtual adventure.
Virtual Field Trips to Museums
British Museum, London
Join the British Museum’s interactive experience through time, continents and culture. Discover some of the most fascinating objects in human history from the comfort of your own home! Just chose a time period, a continent or interest and find a wealth of information at your finger tips. See close-ups of any artifact you chose and then you can listen to some pretty incredible information about it.
Smithsonian – Museum of Natural History, D.C.
Visit the Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. from home! Take a room-by-room self-guided tour of select exhibits and click on the camera icons for a close up and to find out all about it.
MetKids
This is a fun site for kids to discover more about the world of art! Visit a specific time period in history or continent of interest to start your journey of discovery. Kids will also love the collection of various videos that were made just for kids!
The Museo Galileo
This site is filled with a ton of information and videos for older kids about Galileo and his amazing discoveries.
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
Walk around this incredible art museum in Paris. View great works from Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas and more.
Online FREE Learning Sites for Kids
Math
Prodigy – play.prodigygame.com
This is my children’s favorite math program! Prodigy partners with John Hopkins University to bring curriculum-aligned math content and it’s FREE! The cartoon graphics and interactive quests really make learning and practicing math a fun experience for children!
Khan Academy – www.khanacademy.org
This is an outstanding FREE educational program that teaches almost everything! Here students can learn math concepts for any grade level, all the way to high school levels! For older kids you can also learn Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Computer Programming, Economics and more!
Reading
Squiggle Park – www.Squigglepark.com
This is a great FREE program to help children with their reading skills and reading comprehension. The colorful animation and fun games make reading really fun! Squiggle park is aimed at helping children ages 3 to 8+ with reading skills and Dreamscape (also within this site) concentrates more on reading comprehension and is for children aged 8 to 15+.
Storyline – www.storylineonline.net
Discover a wealth of books on this FREE site where celebrated actors will read the book your child chooses aloud to them!
Science
Mystery Doug – mysterydoug.com
This is a great site for elementary school aged children that want to know more about science. Find science lessons, watch videos and find out answers to real student questions.
National Geographic – kids.nationalgeographic.com
Discover games, videos, brain boosters and a lot of cool stuff on this FREE website for kids! Let your children learn all about different types of animals and explore the world from home.
History
History for Kids – www.historyforkids.net
The site History for kids is a great FREE website for kids to learn all about history in a really fun way!
Typing
Typing Club – www.typingclub.com
This is a great typing program and it’s FREE! Discover fun lessons that really teach kids how to type.
Coding
Hour of Code – hourofcode.com/us
This FREE program is a great way for your kids to start learning how to code.
This is my kids’ favorite FREE coding site. On this site kids will learn to code through a game-based program where they get to type real code and see their characters in the game react in real time.
General
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Free Rice – freerice.com
This is a great FREE website! Here your child can choose from categories such as Geography, Math, Languages, Science, Famous Paintings and more. Then they get to answer questions from that topic. What kid’s will love is that for every question they get right, the cash equivalent of 10 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Programme. My children love using this program, not only to learn new things, but also they get to help feed people who are hungry with every question the answer correct!
I hope you have enjoyed this list of virtual field trips and learning sites for your family.
Please let me know in the comments section below if you have a favorite virtual/educational sites that you would like to share.
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