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For the most up to date information on video field trips, consult the following web sites: Nassau BOCES Video Field Trip Program Guide: Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Videoconferencing Sites and Video Field Trips:
Albuquerque Academy, located in New Mexico, offers Spanish, French, and German up to IV and V, AP levels, and Latin, as well as AP Math and Science. Courses and programs are available.
Baseball Hall of Fame, located in Cooperstown, New York, provides programs on baseball history, using artifacts from its collection of over 25,000 items representing all facets of the game from inception to the present. This resource can be combined with a multi-point conference to the San Francisco Giants.
Ben West Public Library is the main downtown library of Nashville, Tennessee’s public library system. Currently available distance learning program offerings and resources include scheduled interactive training classes on computers and the Internet, videoconferencing genealogy workshops and assistance, marionette puppet shows, library reference services, story telling hour, and homework hotline.
Blue Web'n. Did you know that you can search the Blue Web'n database to access over 1200 great educational resources? Go to Blue Web'n and either browse the content table, or conduct a search for age-appropriate materials (see the link to Grade Level search near the top of the page).
Bronx Zoo, located in Brooklyn, New York.
California Science Center, located in Los Angeles, California, in Exposition Park, offers programs and supporting curriculum materials related to the Science Center's exhibits. An example of a topic is "Your Insides Out" which relates to the circulatory system.
Cape May County Park and Zoo, located in Cape May, New Jersey, has over 450 animals representing over 140 species, including a 56 acre Savannah which houses giraffes, ostriches and other animals. Tours of the reptile house and an abbreviated tour of the facility are available. Programs are available year round.
Center for Puppetry Arts, in Atlanta, Georgia, established in 1978, is the largest puppetry museum in the United States. Visit "Puppets, the Power of Wonder" via videoconference or visit with puppets depicting the "strange and the beautiful", along with others.
Challenger Learning Center Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the world's largest children's museum. It is located on 13 acres near the city center and offers children of all ages interactive learning experiences in 10 indoor galleries, 9 permanent exhibitions, a performing arts theater and a planetarium. Examples of programs are "Egyptian Mummies", which explores real mummies from the Museum's collection, and "What's My Line", which has students interviewing museum staff to discover their lines of work. Museum resources are available through electronic field trips in the area of science, history and world culture. Every year special events are created from traveling exhibit halls and Museum staff will work with teachers to develop custom distance education learning programs.
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of the oldest zoos in the country, opening its doors in 1875. Via videoconferencing, students can take part in theme programs, problem-based learning and zoo careers. Students might be asked how they would handle a successful birth of a new Asian elephant. Live interaction with people and animals provides a real active learning episode on topics such as endangered species, animal adaptations, biodiversity, zoo careers and conservation research. A program from the insectarium is called "Nobody Likes Me" which covers bugs, bats, toads, and snakes and talks about ecological niches and the importance of all living things.
Cleveland Institute of Music, located in Ohio, has several programs for K-12 and will design lessons for interested classes.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo located in Cleveland, Ohio, on 165 wooded acres, was founded in 1882 and is the seventh oldest zoo in the United States. The Zoo's mission is to improve the future of wildlife by exhibiting plants and animals and providing education and conservation programs that encourage respect of the natural world and our place in it. The zoo specializes in education including videoconferencing which enables a participant to see thousands of animals in modern spacious settings and state of the art exhibits. Join educators and others across the zoo and take part in the 25-30 videoconferencing special programs for all age levels held weekly, including a series on wetlands, Trumpeter swans, life in Australia, elephants, and wolf wilderness just to name a few.
Cleveland Museum of Art, located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, has programs for K-12 on many topics including Medieval Arts. The large and comprehensive art collection represents many of the world's civilizations and cultures.
Clowes Memorial Hall, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a performing arts center at Butler University. The faculty of the center provide interactive video activities related to Shakespeare and other topics.
Coca-Cola Space Science Center, located at Columbus University in Columbus, Georgia, seeks to improve learning by making science, mathematics, and technology accessible and understandable for all students. The programs are interactive and often require teamwork and are supported by curriculum materials.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, located in Williamsburg, Virginia, provides field trips that take students on a journey to America's revolutionary past, bringing to life important history lessons. Transmitted to schools live, through a satellite link with PBS stations, cable operators, and satellite telecast, the programs let students interact with live actors portraying historical figures. Students can ask questions via the Internet and have costumed interpreters answer their questions live over the telecast. Comprehensive Teacher's Guides are provided, along with toll free phone numbers, access to a special Internet site for each field trip, and a videotape and guide with suggestions for integrating the program in the classroom. The topics include "Choosing Revolution", "Slavery", "Discovering the Past" (archeology), "Potions, Ails, and Smallpox Tales", "Crossroads" (colonial travel), and "Washington: Man and Myth".
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, in Powell, Ohio, is famous for its special events such as "Boo at the Zoo" and "Rhythm 'N' Zoo", but is equally famous for its educational content. The Columbus Zoo added videoconferencing in the education department so more K-12 students around the world can share in learning. The zoo offers professional development and thematic programs in front of zoo exhibits along with pre and post visit educational packets for students and teachers. Topics include "Endangered Species" and "Habitat is Home".
COSI Columbus, in Columbus, Ohio, is in the heart of Buckeye Country. This Center of Science and Industry is the place to be for making science learning fun. Topics include endangered species and sea animals.
COSI Toledo, located in Toledo, Ohio, makes "science click". The Center of Science and Technology tries to engage all students in dynamic videoconference modules based on science concepts at the museum. Some of the more popular modules are "Motion Mania" and "COSI WOW" demonstrations. Reference materials are available for pre and post conferencing for a total of eleven different programs.
Cumberland Science Museum, based in Nashville, Tennessee, provides participatory interactive exhibits to introduce a wide range of science and technology topics to children. In addition to interactive teleconference-based science and nature workshops, led by Museum scientists and curators, the basic distance education premise at the Museum is that any gadget which contains an electronic interface is a potentially useful distance education teaching tool. The Museum makes extensive use of auxiliary video sources to enhance their video-conferencing program, including: videomicroscopes, laserdisc players, remote in-building cameras, etc.
Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, Tennessee, is a natural habitat refuge for endangered Asian elephants. The only way to visit the Elephant Sanctuary is by videoconference. Take a remote trip into the hills of the sanctuary to view Barbara, Tarra and Jenny, the elephants that "loaded up their trunks and moved to Tennessee"!
Georgia Music Hall of Fame, in Macon, Georgia, offers an extravaganza of music information via videoconference. Celebrate music of Georgia in "North, South, East, West" featuring famous musicians of Georgia ... TLC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Indigo Girls, James Brown, laasac Hayes, Ray Charles, Otis Redding ... and the list goes on. Let the hospitality of the folks at the Music Hall of Fame set the scene to study "Blind Willy McTeel" and his early struggles as an African-American musician.
Hartness Technologies, near Greenville, South Carolina, is a leader in the manufacturing of packaging equipment for industry and the developer of "Video Response Systems". Video Response Systems is a wireless camera system used to expand videoconferencing applications. Tour the manufacturing plant using the wireless cam technology while learning about the production of packaging machinery.
Historic Cold Spring Village, located on Cape May, New Jersey, is an open air living history museum on 22 acres of land. The authentically garbed Village craftspeople make history come alive as they demonstrate old crafts using traditional tools, methods and materials. In addition, the museum offers education programs that emphasize a fuller appreciation of the past. The presenters, through discussion and demonstration, guide students through time and help them understand the way people of the past viewed their world, works of literature and the art of their day. Programs are available September through May, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, located in Chevy Chase, Maryland, presents annually the Holiday Lectures on Science, a series of four sessions for high school students. Each lecture is broadcast live via satellite and webcast. Teacher and student guides with lecture summaries, key concepts, and selected references to useful publications and web sites are provided. The HLS web site contains a wide variety of activities that complement the lecture: "Interactive Web" has demonstrations and a virtual laboratory; and "Ask a Scientist" allows students to ask questions via e-mail about human genetics and a wide range of other biology topics.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, has distance learning programs highlighting special exhibitions and permanent collections, with such topics as the Middle Ages, contemporary art, and museum resources. The objective of the programs is to show connections between art and a variety of subjects from mathematics to foreign language. The primary audience is 14 year old students in Indiana; however, if space permits, other groups may use this resource. Programs would be applicable to grades 3-12. Curriculum materials available, and customized programs may be designed.
Indianapolis Zoo is a 64 acre complex located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the only institution in the USA accredited as a zoological park, aquarium and botanical garden. The mission of the zoo is connecting animals, plants and people, and concentrates on four areas: exhibition, education, conservation and research. Two of their best programs are "Endangered Species," which is interactive with activities and class discussion, and "Rain Forests". The Zoo serves many thousands of students each year in a wide variety of educational programs, including a dramatically expanding distance education program. The Zoo was named the 1997 Central Indiana Interactive Instruction Content Provider of the year and offers both individual sessions and classes in a series.
J@zzschool at the Knitting Factory, located in New York, New York, recognizes that music appreciation classes sometimes are no longer an option in schools. Through J@zzschool at the Knitting Factory, opportunities for students to learn about jazz from musicians themselves exist each week. Join distinguished jazz artists as they discuss the evolution of jazz or electronic music.
Jersey Shore Distance Learning Consortium (Partners in Distance Learning) includes twenty-one Primary and Secondary schools all participating in videoconferencing. They are ready for class project sharing, for example, by offering a visit from "Flat Stanley" to other schools. The Cape May County Park and Zoo, Historic Cold Spring Village (see separate entry), the Wetlands Institute and the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts also offer remote field trips from the Jersey Shore.
Johnson Space Center, adjacent to Clear Lake, Texas, is about 20 miles from Houston, Texas. Established in 1961 as one of NASA's prime locations for the training of astronauts. Visit the Johnson Space Center in a videoconference! Hourly videoconferences take students on a tour of aspects of the construction of the International Space Station, including the habitation module where astronauts will live and the module where experiments are performed in space.
KCET Public Television serving Southern and Central California delivers an exceptional videoconference series. The latest addition is "Sports in Society". Explore "The Role of Sports in Education", "Sports and Violence" and "Sports and the Media" via videoconferencing! Other programs include career choices, featuring a particular career with panel guests.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, located in Livermore, California, and associated with the University of California, Berkeley, is noted for contributions to science, including irregular videoconferences and lectures for students in grades 7-12 on the topics of computers, earthquakes, astronomy, robotics, and the role of technology.
League of Hearing Impaired (LHI) is part of a network of community service centers for the deaf in Tennessee. LHI has established several methods of using a sign interpreter to facilitate communication between a deaf and a hearing person through videoconferencing. LHI provides sign language training, deaf culture workshops and other services and information directly into classrooms via videoconferencing.
Liberty Science Center, located in Jersey City, New Jersey, is the place to visit virtually for environmental, health and invention programs. Students might be interested in learning all about entomology by videoconferencing with "the bug lady". She'll bring along her friend, the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, and can focus on adaptation, ecosystem, habitats, camouflage or even the weather. The Center has over 250 hands-on exhibits and experiences that serve as the basis for interactive programs. The exhibits include exotic insects and reptiles, a video light microscope, and 80' degree torsional wave, a human lung, a laser beam, and fish tanks, depicting the Hudson River environment. A variety of student and professional development programs are offered, all of which are curriculum based and aligned to the National Science Education standards. Choose between a Browsing (a one-connection exhibit-based program) or an E-Trail (a three-connection design challenge program). The program "Careers at LSC" focuses on the behind the scenes people like exhibit builders, engineers, store personnel, and animal caretakers. All programs are inquiry based and expect interaction to get all students actively learning.
Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the largest library in the world. The current program is an introduction to primary sources used in American Memory Project and how LC validates web sources. Additional programs are under development.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum west of Chicago. The museum in Los Angles, California, houses more than 110,000 works of art. Six buildings covering 636,000 square feet are used to show art from ancient times to the present. The museum sometimes known as LACMA is in the planning stages of incorporating videoconferencing into its educational programs.
Louisville Science Center, across the street from the Louisville Slugger Museum, is located in Louisville, Kentucky. The education department has several programs available for videoconferencing. One is "Meet the Experts" where students interact with experts in science. "The Greatest Places on Earth" explores biomes; adaptations in the physical, animal and human environments. Hands-on activities are included over videoconferencing.
Louisville Zoological Gardens, outside of Louisville, Kentucky, partners with Male High School for their zoo presentations. The main focus is to use live animals covering a variety of topics from reptiles to tropical rainforests. The goal of the zoo is to "better the understanding between people and the planet".
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, located in Cape May, New Jersey, is on a Victorian estate built in 1879. Activity illustrates life from 1879 to the turn of the century. The Center also operates Cape May Lighthouse, which is an 1859 working lighthouse. Programs available include general site tours and interaction with the curator and historian staff, and living history tours of the Victorian house museum. Staff dress up in Victorian attire and teach students what it was like to live in the 19th century. Programs are available year round, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Minnesota Zoo, located in Apple Valley, south of Minneapolis, MN, is a large modern zoo. Videoconferencing capability will be available in Fall 2001.
Mote Marine Laboratory, a leader in marine science education, is housed in Sarasota, Florida. Their distance learning program known as "SeaTrek" offers a variety of videoconferencing programs such as "An Introduction to Sharks", "The Lost Years of Sea Turtle" and "Microscopic Monsters of the Deep".
Museum of Television & Radio located in Beverly Hills, California, is a very unique institution with a mission to collect and make available its television and radio clips from the past. The education center, with an archive of over 100,000 radio and television programs, provides videoconferencing opportunities for students to explore the social impact that these mediums had and continue to have on society. "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years" is a videoconference program that has students explore television's powerful role in the struggle for equal rights in America (age 12 and older). "Planet Earth" examines humankind's complex relationship with earth and looks at television's contribution to the environment movement (age 11 and older). Other K-12 programs are "Around the World" (geography, history, culture, environment) and "The Race for Space". Twenty different topics can be provided in 60 to 90 minute sessions. College and adult programs are also available.
Museum of Tolerance, located in the Simon Wiesenthal Center, in Los Angeles, California, focuses on two themes during their extensive videoconference programs. Those topics are the dynamics of racism and an in-depth look at prejudice in America. Another program "Bridging the Gap" focuses on the history of the Holocaust. Speakers are offered including holocaust survivors sharing their experiences and presentations by former neo-Nazi skinheads. The museum is a high-tech, hands-on, experiential resource and provides curriculum materials.
NASA's Classroom of the Future, located at the Center for Educational Technology, Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia, is developing programs on various topics, the most recent of which is the El Yunque Rainforest in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The video tour, related research materials, and background curriculum materials relate to the impact of hurricanes on plants and animals in rainforests and the principles of biodiversity and forest succession.
NASA Glenn Research Center, located in Cleveland, Ohio, at Lewis Field, has a variety of programs in the area of the sciences, including chemistry and physics, with focus on space science, earth science, and space transportation.
NASA Teaching from Space Program at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, presents a series of educational live shows via satellite to schools across the United States at no charge. These shows take students on electronic field trips to laboratories, classroom, NASA Centers, and remote sites to experience science, mathematics, geography, and technology in real-world settings. NASA’s cutting-edge research, unique facilities and diverse workforce provide an ideal backdrop for these experiences. The 30-minute shows, which target educators and students in grades 5-12, provide opportunities to post questions via e-mail or phone in a toll-free line and converse on-air with the experts, as well as resource guides and access to NASA resources.
Nashville Wildlife Park at Grassmere, located near Nashville, Tennessee, is a leading zoological park. Schools can videoconference with the Park and ask questions relating to natural history, ecology, animal science, the environment and more. These discussions may use live animals, artifacts, and demonstrations to help guide students to answers. Sample program areas include: Creative Feature, a 30-minute program on requested biological science subjects and Critter Capers, story telling with puppets. Fables and folk tales, accompanied by live encounters of the furry, feathery and scaly kind, give young students an up close introduction to the animal kingdom in a 20-minute program. In Staff Feature, a Park staff person will describe a day in the life of various zoo personnel.
National Museum of American Art is the home of the largest collection of American art in the world. It is located in Washington, D.C., as part of the Smithsonian Institute. The National Museum of Art has just started to establish videoconferencing content for schools. One project involves the staff development videoconference--how to integrate art across the curriculum.
National Museum of Natural History, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is part of the Smithsonian Institute. The National Museum of Natural History houses an innovative hands-on learning facility. Videoconferencing programs are not regularly scheduled, but the museum plans to coordinate and conduct an assortment of videoconferencing field trips.
New York Hall of Science in Corona, New York, uses the latest videoconferencing technology. The "Virtual Visit" will link your classroom with "Explainers at the Hall" providing a rich, interactive science learning experience. Explore selected exhibits, demonstrations and activities all illustrating science concepts. Follow up activities are provided, along with materials and instructions.
North Carolina Museum of Natural Science Oakland Museum of California, located in Oakland, California, near Lake Merritt, is devoted to the art, history and natural sciences of California. The education department has many online curriculum units such as "Gold Rush", but will supplement these with videoconferencing soon.
Ohio Historical Society located in Columbus, Ohio, offers programs with experts, artifacts and historical sites of the Ohio Historical Society. In the "Underground Railroad" students accompany a veteran time traveler back to the year 1858. Students interact with Ohio Historical Society Villagers about their political, social and economic views. Note: reserved first for Ohio students.
Orange County Marine Institute of Dana Point, California, helps kids and adults explore the ever-shifting marine environment. The Institute has a nationally recognized education program where students from their classrooms can videoconference into the Institute to learn about ocean life. "Safari into the Intertidal Zone" is one such program offering; another is "Whales in our Environment". Interactive connection can also be made to a research boat from eight miles off shore
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum offers an assortment of programs that examine the industries and people of the Hard Coal Region. They are offered from November through March annually, Tuesday through Friday mornings. Special requests may be accommodated. All programs are adaptable for students age 10 to 18 and originate in the Museum exhibit hall. Programs include: Anthracite Coal Mining, The Textile Industry of Northeast Pennsylvania, Home, Religious and Social Life in the Anthracite Region, and an Introduction to Museums and Collecting. Programs available November to March, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Pennsbury Manor, located at Morrisville, Pennsylvania, is the reconstructed home of American author William Penn. The program covers the significance of Penn's works as well as life in the late 17th century and is available November to March, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., on Tuesdays.
Philadelphia Museum of Art housed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the great art institutions of the world, with thousands of masterpieces, arms and armor, architecture and other artifacts. It has students and teachers look at new ways to explore the world of art through videoconferencing and supports curriculum on a broad variety of topics and in many disciplines. ArtLine, the museum's distance learning initiative, will take students and teachers on a virtual art collection tour while participants interact with live museum educators. Topics include American Folk Art, Arts of Asia, Days of Knights, Learning to Look, The Figure in Impressionism, Discovering Colonial Lifestyles Through Art, and other areas. Age levels from grade 2 to college.
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania tells the colorful history of railroads in Pennsylvania. Students will see the history of the railroad from early steam locomotive to the sleek and powerful diesel and electronic locomotives of the 20th century. Programs are available from September to May, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., on Tuesdays.
San Juan Institute, located at San Juan Capistrano, California, has an extensive planetary education program of virtual field trips and public lectures, which include demonstrations and question/answer sessions. Topics include astronomy, solar system, and meteorites.
School of the Arts, Department of Dance, located at the University of California, Irving, does performances, question and answer periods, and demonstrations.
Sci-Trek Science & Technology Museum, located in Atlanta, Georgia, has no "Do Not Touch" signs. People of all ages can have fun with science doing, seeing, touring, guessing, and playing. Sci-Trek is an exciting, interactive center with more than 150 permanent exhibits. Various videoconferencing programs available.
State Museum of Pennsylvania, located in Pittston, Pennsylvania, shows the story of Pennsylvania through exhibits including animals, archeology, Civil War history, dinosaurs, Native Americans and more. Museum educators and curators provide instruction from September to May. The program "Every Object Tells A Story" helps students learn about their past through objects.
SWING, Southeastern Wisconsin Interactive Network Group. One of the neatest things you and your students can do is to take a Virtual Field Trip! Your students will love being able to travel the world without missing a class, administrators will love that it costs less than renting a bus, and you'll love the fact that "experts" are available on just about everything you can imagine!
Tennessee Aquarium, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, brings science educators and animals from the Aquarium into the classroom to talk with students about reptiles, amphibians, birds, and insects. Science educators bring live snakes, turtles, lizards or frogs to the camera and answer student questions. For conferences on animals such as birds that a trip to the camera would endanger or insects that are too small to be seen easily, images are posted to a WWW site to be shown during the session.
Tennessee Foreign Language Institute (TFLI), an agency of the State of Tennessee, offers a wide range of internationally oriented distance education programs and resources of teachers and students of all ages. These include language instruction in more than 100 different languages and world dialects. TFLI also conducts world culture seminars and provides access to the agency's large international library holdings by appointment.
Tennessee Performing Arts Center is a multi-purpose performing arts complex located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Students and teachers are given an opportunity through videoconferencing to visit TPAC's Arts in Education program and Humanities Outreach in Tennessee, and to interact with directors, actors, performing artists, stage crews and others who are involved in the production of TPAC's plays, musicals, concerts, etc.
Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee, is a state government research center with extensive holdings on Tennessee and the southern United States. Videoconference resources and short seminars are available in the following areas: genealogy research in Tennessee, historical topics in U.S. history and biography, as well as in the history and culture of Tennessee. Government subject areas include agriculture, labor, health, education, technology, conservation, states' statutes laws, regulations, and proceedings of other states' legislatures.
The Wilds! of Cumberland, Ohio, currently partners with schools to develop videoconferencing. "Wetland Identification" is an interactive session exploring wetlands; "Surface Mining and Reclamation" explores mining technology with reclamation methods. The Wilds! were once a strip mine facility reclaimed to allow for conservation of wildlife.
TIES, located in Roseville, MN, north of St. Paul, MN, offers students in Minnesota a Center Stage Videoconference Series, including arts, science, history, government, and other topics. The Minnesota Zoo, the Ordway Theater, and the Children's Museum are commited to participation and other agencies are considering participation. The sites are limited to ensure plenty of interaction. Curriculum materials are provided, including supplemental resource lists. TIES also provides convenient and cost-effective staff development classes.
United States House of Representatives, located in Washington, D.C., began with its first Congress on March 4, 1789. It was not until recently Congress had the ability to use email and videoconferencing in conference rooms in the Capitol complex to communicate to constituents. Teachers can videoconference to the House of Representatives by contacting their Representatives FIRST and then the House of Representatives Videoconference Director.
United States Senate in Washington, D.C. Through the power of videoconferencing it is possible to visit a Senator for a unique "Capitol experience". Arrangements must be made ahead of time by contacting the office of the Senator first; then the videoconferencing center. The school must sustain costs of the videoconference.
University of Georgia Marine Extension Service, in Savannah, Georgia, makes the ocean come alive for students. Over 3/4 of the earth is blanketed by water. Explore the species that inhabit that water through the power of videoconference. "Feeding Frenzy" and "Head Games" are among some of the popular videoconferences.
Vanderbilt Child Development Center in Nashville, Tennessee, is part of the Division of Child Development of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. The CDC's mission is to provide interdisciplinary diagnostic services to children and their families. On behalf of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the CDC provides videoconference access to Primary and Secondary distance education seminars and workshops offered by university medical physicians and staff on such varied topics as HIV/AIDS research, pediatrics, career prep for nursing and medicine, adoslesent development, and other areas.
Ward Melville Heritage Organization, located on the north shore of Long Island, is a 60-year old, not-for-profit organization which is just getting involved in distance education, with the first program being "Electronic Explorations: The Salt March Ecosystem", for grades 5-9. Programs are available the year around. Program demonstrations are available.
Wetlands Institute, located in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, overlooks 6,000 acres of Atlantic coastal wetlands. The Institute is dedicated to "furthering coastal environmental knowledge". Diamondback terrapin conservation, beach biology and avian ecology are all part of the Institute's research projects. Immerse students into wetland life by a field trip via videoconferencing.
Wildlife Park at Grassmere, located in Grassmere, TN, and a leading zoological park, provides programs and discussions on natural history, ecology, animal sciences, the environment, and more. Live animals, artifacts, and demonstrations are used to help guide students to answers. Programs include Creature Feature, a thirty-minute program on requested biological science subjects, and Critter Capers, story telling with puppets. Fables and folk tales, accompanied by live encounters of the furry, feathery and scaly kind, give an up close introduction to the animal kingdom in a twenty-minute program.
WVIA TV/FM, located in Pittston, Pennsylvania, is a Public Television and Radio affiliate that serves 22 counties of Northeast and Central Pennsylvania. WVIA's commitment to the community and distance education has placed it at the forefront of educational programming and technology in Pennsylvania. WVIA's presentations "How to Produce a Newscast" and "Careers in Television and Radio" include 8 programs with over 60 sessions. Students interested in radio careers can talk with on-air FM hosts. Students interested in television careers can meet television staff members who work in all areas, from television directing to magazine feature writing. In addition, interactive access to marketing, business and engineering professionals is available. Master control and production room tours are also offered. Programs are available year round, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, makes student field trips easy. Students can take a trip to the famous Zoo Atlanta via their schools' videoconferencing systems to explore habitats and wildlife from across the world. Programs are designed to be highly interactive, with subject offerings like "Rattlesnake Round-Up", "Be a Researcher", "Fabulous Flamingos", "Rain Forest Animals", and "Backyard Habitats".
INTERNATIONAL SITES National Museums and Galleries, located on Merseyside, Liverpool, England, is a large multi-disciplinary organization covering art, history, and science. Experiments with the use of video conferencing have been very successful and proposals are welcome from around the world. Programs have been developed in the Natural History Centre's activity room with over 20,000 specimens available for examination. Powerful video-microscopes in the Centre can be connected to the video conferencing system to reveal the smallest details on a wide diversity of insects, fossil, mineral and plant material.
The National Museum of Science & Industry/Science Museum, located in London, England, shows students 17th century amputation saws and Victorian irons, and the inventors of the flush toilet and frozen peas, or enables students to talk with curators about space, telecommunications and materials.
Hampshire Technology Centre: Intech, located in Winchester, England, aims to support teachers in the delivery of the National Curriculum in Science & Technology and offer "Teacher Resource Packs," pre-visit planning sessions, and Primary & Secondary programs. Skills and knowledge transfer, twilight teacher training courses, lecture programs and telephone support are also offered.
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, located in Paris, France.
Note: Entries in this guide are included on the basis of available description information. Most of these sites have not been reviewed by SOCRATES staff at the time this version of the Video Field Trip Guide was produced. Feedback from users of this guide would be greatly appreciated. Please send this information to Dale Carrison.
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