Links to the other grade level Virtual Field Trips! Kindergarten - How It's Made Virtual Field Trip 1st Grade - Little House on the Prairie Virtual Field Trip 2nd Grade - Washington D.C. Virtual Field Trip 4th Grade - American History Virtual Field Trip 5th Grade - National Parks Virtual Field Trip The 3rd Graders LOVED the New York City Virtual Field Trip last year and so did I! I made just a few changes this year. I extended the unit to 9 weeks this year. This gave us a little more time to explore the places we visited last year and add a couple of new places in this year. Here is the link to the original post: We Love New York Virtual Field Trip: Part 1 Week 1: Introduction Weeks 2 and 3: Welcome to New York!Week 2: This week I introduced the kids to New York City! NYC is one of my favorite places to visit so I was excited to share this with my students! We took a virtual tour of Times Square and looked at the live EarthCam views. I briefly introduced them to the audio tour of the Empire State Building. They can explore that more independently in Week 3. I also introduced them to the New York Philharmonic Kids Zone website. This was a crowd favorite last year! I also introduced them to one of favorite parts of NYC: Broadway! During book checkout, I let them watch a couple of YouTube videos of Disney Broadway shows. Week 3: The kids worked in pairs and groups of 3 to explore the sites introduced in Week 2. Weeks 4 and 5: Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty Week 4: I introduced the students to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. I knew they had some prior knowledge of the Statue of Liberty from their unit on American Symbols in their classrooms but knew they didn't have any knowledge of Ellis Island and its rich history. Scholastic has an excellent virtual tour of Ellis Island. It takes the students through the entire process an immigrant would have gone through to come to America. It has pictures and audio of first hand accounts of what it was like to entire the United States through Ellis Island. The National Parks Service - Statue of Liberty information and virtual tour Week 5: They worked in pairs to explore the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. *I removed the handout from Weeks 2 and 3 because I wanted them to focus on the new material. Week 6 and 7: New York City MuseumsWeek 6: This stop on our tour was probably the most popular! They loved exploring the museums of New York. There are so many great museums to choose from but in Week 6 I introduced: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: METKids and Virtual Tour The Museum of Modern Art: Art Safari and Destination Modern Art The MOMA app is also great! The Museum of Natural History Week 7: Explore museums with a partner! Weeks 8 and 9: Central Park and The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Week 10I ended up extending this unit by one week. The kids were so interested and engaged, and I wanted to give them a little more time to explore what interested them. So I put all of the handouts back in the folder and they could explore with their partner anything we had talked about since Week 1.
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