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Virtual: Field trips, Museums, and Exhibits

Instructional Illuminations

Open your students to a whole new world. Bring the world to your students when you can not take them to exciting places yourself! This can now be accomplished by traveling virtually. The contents of these tours can be almost endless in all subject areas. These tours can be achieved by a simple search on the Internet. The resources provided below will help you start to search for tours.

Tours from these websites can be used as a resource in lesson plans and classroom activities. When using this type of visual aide in the classroom students who are visual learners can grasp this material easier.

A good example of a website that provides links to topics of all sorts is Virtual Field Trips.

Women in History

Core Connections

Only in the past century have important efforts been made to make sure women's contribution to history have made the text books. As Maya Angelou says, "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" Using these resources and lesson plan links, take some time this month to help your students recognize the "she-roes" of American history. Too often the words and lives of women are only background noise in the study of our history. It is important for our youth to know what amazing contributions women like Susan B. Anthony and Jane Addams made to our society.