Travel for Free With Virtual Field Trips for Your Homeschool

A few weeks ago, I came down with a cold that sent me scrambling to make adjustments to our regular homeschool schedule. Since I didn't know how bad the cold would get, or how long it would last, I needed ideas to fall back on that wouldn't require much from me, but would still be productive alternatives in our homeschool. I came up with five ideas to fall back on during my sickness. Afterwards, I even wrote a guest blog post for a friend, 5 Tips for Homeschooling When Moma is Sick.

It was during my scrambling for ideas to adjust our regular homeschool schedule that I discovered...

I was thrilled with all that I found on virtual field trips! The following links below are comprised of what I found on my original search as well as a recent search I did to add to my original list. I've combined them all into this one post that I want to share with you today. I hope you will enjoy using these exciting virtual field trips so that you can travel for FREE in your homeschool!

Literature

• Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society's Online Exhibit
• Ingalls Homestead: Laura's Living Prairie
• Louisa May Alcott and the Orchard House Tour 
• Sherlock Holmes Museum Tour 

History

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• Mount Vernon: Home of George Washington
• Tour the Town Colonial Williamsburg
• The Mayflower 
• Washington, D.C. Our Nation's Capital 
• Our Capital, Washington Memorial, Lincoln Memorial 
• Inside the White House
• Tour the famous steamboat, Belle of Louisville
• Fort Harrod and Fort Boonesborough 
• Tour of a Castle
• Remembering Pearl Harbor 
• Statue of Liberty      

Science

• Moon Tour from Google Earth 
• Dairy Farm
• 4-H Virtual Farm
• Landscapes of Nova Scotia
• Aviation Museum of Kentucky 
• Coal Mine
• Mount Everest
• Tropical Rainforest in Nicaragua
• Eli Whitney Museum
• National Arboretum        

Art

• Google Art Projects
• Norman Rockwell Museum

Community Services

• Post Office 
• Dentist 

Other Fun Stuff

• Cranberry Bog of Wisconsin
• Utz Potato Chip Factory
• Wilson Football Factory 
• Carlson Orchards Factory
• Dole Banana Plantation
• Tootsie Roll Industries
• Jelly Belly Factory         

I hope you and your kids have fun learning in your homeschool while traveling through these virtual field trips! If you know of any other virtual field trips that you would like to share, please leave the links in the comments below. Thanks!

Walking in His Grace, 
Laurie 


Check out what others on the Schoolhouse Review Crew have discovered for Virtual Field Trips. Simply click on the image below on February 19th.