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Citizens of the world…

Building a generation of students who are aware, concerned and involved global citizens is a challenging task. The future is in the hands of the students sitting in our classrooms - tomorrow's leaders. Teachers who bring the world into their classrooms develop a global perspective for themselves and help their students become more aware of the world around them. Communicating online with other learners around the world is one small step that can help bring about positive global change. 
Patti Weeg
The Global Classroom

 

Virtual Tours

Take a Online Tour to learn more about the world around you. What can you explore? How do you relate to the new information? What can you learn that changes what you know about the world?

Around the World Tours
Select tours that have clickable maps, this encourages map reading and exploring whole areas.

Places of Geography

Places to See

Places to Explore

Back in Time

 

 

 

 

Iceland

Galapagos Island Geology

Great Barrier Reef

Columbia River

Climb Mt St. Helens

Deserts of the Southwest

Tour the Earth's Biomes

Tour the States

Seattle Virtual Tour

Explore London

Tour Hawaii

Tour Durham Castle

St. Michael's Abby

Tour King Tutankhamen Tombs

Forbidden City

Turn of the Century's Child

A Day in the Life of a 19th c. Child

Plimoth Plantation

Maya Ruins

Places of the Revolutionary War

History in Our Pocket Time Machine

 

Museum Tours: more and more museums are putting their displays online to share with the world.

Visit the British Museum Look at artifacts from Ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian Life. Determine how life was different in each culture.

 

Going places never been to before!

 Virtual tours take students to places and locations they could never get to easily.  For some this may be the start of real life tours they take, for others it might be the only time in their life they get to explore their world right from the classroom

 

“Where do you want to go to Today?”!

 


Not so Real Virtual Tours: Places you can’t really visit in real life but simulate real places or things

Virtual Cave - Ever wondered what life was like down below?
Explore the Forest - From National Geographic
A New Suburb

 

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