No Tickets, No Passport, No Money Needs... Will Still Travel

I love real field trips but with the current economy and a principal who does not like field trips, I have fallen in love with virtual field trips. For the past two years, I have "traveled" with 35 kids each hour for 5 hours to the Grand Canyon. We even had a private live tour with 2 National Park Rangers.

This year with a change to 8th grade and only physical science topics to study, I am in search of a new virtual field trip. Ideally I would love to take my kids to an amusement park. I had planned to film my trip to Georgia - 6 Flags Magic Mountain this summer. Now with it under 6 feet of water, I will have to find a new location.

I haven't quite found my ideal physic's virtual field trip but I did find some interesting options where my kids can build their own rollercoaster, tour Disneyland, or visit a science lab.

Virtual Amusement Park - http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster/
Tour Disneyland - http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/markuse/502/vft/start.html

In my search for Physical Science field trip options, I came across this great link of Oceanography virtual field trips: http://www.thesea.ecsd.net/virtual_field_trips.htm and this other one from NSTA http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Deborah-McAllister/nsta98vftrip.html

Playing Catch Up

Hi Groupies -

Sorry for the delay and relocation of my blog.... life has been overwhelming. Not to make excuses but between our union/district being on strike, getting back to school 18 days late, the school re-doing our rosters 1 week into the school year, being a single mother and an old hip injury acting up to lead me to surgery on Oct 14th... I have been a bit off track and missing out on blogging.

I am back and playing catch up. Please bare with me while I catch up with all of you. I appreciate the understanding and support.

"Beaker"