Part #1: Little House on the Prairie Virtual Field Trip Part #2: American History Virtual Field Trip 3rd Grade's Virtual Field Trip location was a little selfish on my part. NYC is my VERY FAVORITE place to visit! I couldn't go in real life so this was second best...right? Week 1: Welcome to New York! For the first week I did an intro to New York City with a virtual tour of Times Square. YouVisit also has a great photo tour of New York City! It has really great 360 degree HD photos of most of NYC's most popular tourist attractions. Put these up on the Promethean Board and its almost like you are there...almost! We also explored the New York Philharmonic's Kids page. This is a great interactive page that the kids loved exploring later! During check out time I let them watch a few of YouTube clips of Disney Broadway shows. *We looked at several live web cam views of NYC. These are great...but you might want to preview them ahead of time to make sure there is nothing inappropriate! You never know what might be in Times Square....hello Naked Cowboy. Week 2: Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty Scholastic has a great interactive tour of Ellis Island. It walks you through each step of the journey a new immigrant would have taken. It has videos, photos, and audio that tells the stories of real immigrants that came through Ellis Island. It is a great first hand account of what coming to American would have been like. The National Park Service has a link to a couple of great live webcams of various views from and of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Week 3: NYC Museums I began this week by introducing some of the many great museums in New York City. I showed the kids a few pictures of the museums I have visited while in NYC. Several of the museums have really great interactive websites for kids. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a great Kid's Zone! It has videos that teach about different artists and pieces of art featured in the museum. There are also some interactive exhibits that introduce pieces of art that are in the museum, the artist, and allows the kids to try out the technique used by that artist. The kids really enjoyed revisiting this site later.
The MOMA Art Lab App - The app includes information on art featured at MOMA and the artists' techniques. It allows the kids to try out many of these techniques. They can create a mobile, sound composition, line design, shape poem, draw with scissors, experiment with paint, and draw from instructions. This app was VERY popular with the kids. They could have spent the entire library time on this app alone. They had to work in pairs because we don't have enough IPads for everyone to work alone. It was really neat to walk around and hear the discussions about what they were creating and why they should use a certain object, color, ect. They wouldn't have had these same types of discussions working alone. We have revisited the Art Lab several times even after our Virtual Field Trip was over. Week 4: Central Park and The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade The last week of our virtual field trip fell the week before Thanksgiving. I had planned on visiting Central Park for the last week but decided to also visit the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Central Park: The Central Park Conservancy website has a great guided virtual tour of the park. You are able to "walk" through the park and read facts about the park and well as hear narration along the tour. Throughout the tour there are photos, videos, and 360 degree panoramas of some of Central Parks most famous landmarks.
*I put many of the links for both the 3rd and 4th/5th Grade Virtual Field Trips on my library website so that the students would have access to continue learning and exploring on their own in the computer lab, classroom or at home.
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