Virtual Field Trips

New York's famed American Museum of Natural History provides guided tours of its museum halls led by tour guides and curators.

Go behind-the-scenes at EA Sports and learn how data dominates video game development. See how data collection, statistics and insights create this cutting-edge game experience.Virtual Field Trip Guide for Educators available for download.

Explore the surface of Mars courtesy of NASA’s Curiosity rover. This fully interactive experience lets your explore the 352 million miles Curiosity covered over the course of eight months in 2011-2012 to discover if the red planet is, or ever has been, suitable for life.

This online exploration of The Franklin Institute's award-winning exhibit provides interactive activities that explain the how and why of our ever changing brain. Whether you’re connecting brain cells or playing with faces, what you learn will literally change your mind!

Take your students on a Young Scientist Lab Virtual Field Trip to 3M World Headquarters, to explore how 3M scientists are using biomimicry to improve and invent new products for everything from healthcare to food science to adhesives.

Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams floats through the International Space Station and offers a tour of the laboratories, observation deck, the crew’s sleep quarters and more. It’s fascinating to see our planet down below from the observation deck and to find out what life is really like on the station.

Each virtual field trip contains a video, teacher guide, and student activities. Destinations and topics include Coastal Temperate Rainforests, Powering the Planet with Renewable Energy, and The Secret Life of Corals.

Journey to the leading nuclear research facility in the United States, Idaho National Laboratory. Step inside a nuclear reactor, explore unexpected careers in nuclear science, and see what the future may hold thanks to advances in nuclear capabilities. Virtual Field Trip Guide for Educators available for download.

This virtual field trip takes students to Cargill’s Innovation Center in Wichita, Kansas where they get an inside look into the world of agriculture and learn how careers in science and technology play a key role in getting food to your table in a safe and affordable way. Virtual Field Trip Guide for Educators available for download.

Ride into the future of mobility with the experts at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Michigan. See how artificial intelligence and machine learning is used to bring safety, convenience, and comfort to our lives through automated vehicles and robotics. Virtual Field Trip Guide for Educators available for download.