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30+ Virtual Field Trips for Kids

Stuck at Home? Here are 30+ great Virtual Field Trips for early learners to explore from your home on your couch. From zoos and landmarks to famous museums, you can explore the world with your child with over a month of virtual field trips!

View inside White House as part of Virtual Tour of the White House
The Ultimate Checklist of Virtual Field Trips for Kids
  • Animal Virtual Tours for Kid
  • US History Virtual Tours
  • US Landmarks Virtual Tours
  • US National Parks Virtual Tours
  • Museum Virtual Tours
  • Virtual Tours Around the World
  • Fall Virtual Field Trips for Kids
  • Winter Virtual Field Trips for Kids
  • Spring Virtual Field Trips for Kids
  • Virtual Tours of Space
  • Live Webcams Around the World

One thing that the recent global quarantine has made us all realize very clearly is that we’re all part of one earth. We all have many commonalities and many things that are unique to where we live.

As we are at home, working from home and spending more time with the kids, I’d love to suggest we spend a little more time exploring this amazing planet that we’ve been gifted to during our lifetime.

Google Earth is such an amazing tool to use with your child to encourage them to explore the world. You can be at home on your sofa or at our desk and transport to anywhere on the earth.

Where would you want to go?

With your child start with where you live. Then go to their school and where you shop near you and then find where family and friends live. Next, explore some of their favorite spots you’ve vacationed and now it’s time to explore where you’ve never been. But where do you start?

Let’s start by exploring some amazing popular travel destinations that also happen to have webcams for you to step inside and explore.

Google’s Art and Culture is a great resource to kick start your global search too. Did you know that Google’s “World Wonders” project offers virtual tours of 132 famous sites? So many amazing virtual tours of museums for kids!!

virtual field trips for kids featuring white house, yosemite, manatees and elephants and DC zoo
DOWNLOAD VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP LOG

30 Virtual Field Trips for Kids

I’ve put together a collection of locations for virtual field trips that I believe as a teacher and a mom that are appropriate for the kid to watch online. I’d encourage you though to talk about these locations as a family.

You can track your virtual tours with our Printable Virtual Field Trip Log!

Perhaps start working on a travel bucket list together and a virtual travel bucket list. That way your child can make their own itinerary too.

Where do you think your child wants to go to?

Animal Virtual Tours for Kid

  • Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Georgia Aquarium
  • Houston Zoo
  • Atlanta Zoo – Pandas
  • San Diego Zoo
  • Smithsonian National Zoo
  • The Tundra with Discovery Education
  • Virtual Farm Tours

Here’s a list of all the zoos with webcams to explore.

For a little movement, try this zoo themed yoga

US History Virtual Tours

  • The White House
    A Virtual Tour by the Obamas
  • Mount Vernon
  • Colonial Williamsburg
  • Mount Rushmore
  • Liberty Bell

Create your own Living History Museum at home after your virtual tour!

US Landmarks Virtual Tours

  • Empire State Building
  • Ellis Island
  • Monument Valley

US National Parks Virtual Tours

  • Yellowstone National Park
  • The Grand Canyon
  • Hidden World of National Parks by Google Art and Culture
  • National Parks Foundation: Electronic Field Trip
  • NPS Webcams at the National Parks
  • Virtual Hikes at Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Virtual Hike from Rim to River at Grand Canyon
  • Glacier National Park
  • Yosemite Park
  • Smoky Mountain National Park
  • Dry Tortugas National Park
  • Carlsbad Caverns National Park
  • Bryce Canyon National Park
  • Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
  • Kenai Fjords National Park
  • Carlsbad Caverns

Find Your Virtual Park – Connect with national parks from a distance through digital opportunities and activities to do in your own home or neighborhood.

Museum Virtual Tours

  • Smithsonian Museum
  • Vatican
  • Van Gogh Museum
  • 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours 
  • Google Art and Culture: Top 10 Museums you Can Explore

Coloring Pages From Over 100 Museums

Virtual Tours Around the World

  • Great Wall of China
  • Buckingham Palace
  • Pyramids
  • The Louvre
  • Taj Mahal
  • Red Square in Russia
  • Rainforest
  • Largest Flower Garden, Keukenhof 

Recreate a famous landmark with math, art and sidewalk chalk

Fall Virtual Field Trip for Kids

Fall Virtual Field Trips for Kids

Get ready to explore these Fall Virtual Field Trips for Kids with these kid friendly fall virtual tours.

  • Pumpkin patches
  • Fall leaves
  • Apple orchards
  • Corn mazes
  • Turkey farms
  • Hayrides
winter virtual field trips for kids featuring sledding, snow covered mountains and evergreen trees and ice castles

Winter Virtual Field Trips for Kids

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Explore 60+ Winter themed virtual field trips for kids.

  • Winter Virtual Field Trips to National Parks
  • Ice Castle Virtual Field Trips
  • Natural Wonders of Winters: Snow, Frozen Lakes, Waterfalls & Glaciers
  • Winter Sports: Ice Skating, Skiing, Sledding and Tubing
  • Christmas Around the World Virtually: Lights, Tree Farms, Reindeers
spring virtual field trips for kids with flowers, trees, baby animals and more

Spring Virtual Field Trips for Kids

Explore the best spring virtual field trips for kids. Explore moments in nature of spring flowers blooming and experience of flower-covered trees, baby animals, and the animal life cycles of spring with this ultimate collection of spring virtual field trips for kids.

Virtual Tours of Space

  • Mars
  • Moon
  • Sun
  • International Space Station
  • Space Shuttle Discovery

Live Webcams Around the World

  • Worldcam.eu: Web Cams from Around the World
  • Explore.org: Live webcams throughout the world
Yosemite and National Zoo images featured Virtual Field Trips for Kids

Virtual Field Trip Activities for Home

Looking for ways to expand the virtual tour?

Once you’ve viewed one of the Virtual tours, you can…

  • Write up about what you learned
  • Draw a picture of your favorite part
  • Create a version with legos, building blocks or playdough
  • Find a book online to learn more about the location
  • Create a themed craft based on where you took a virtual tour
  • Recreate it with sidewalk chalk
  • Cook a dish from that region
DOWNLOAD VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP LOG
Virtual Field Trip Log for Kids Printable on wooden floor with pencil, toy spaceship and globe.

DOWNLOAD OUR VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP LOG

There are so many amazing resources to explore virtually to learn about our amazing planet and the treasures and history within it.

One resource that I found to be the most amazing was Google Art and Culture resource. I high recommend exploring it as a family during this time.

Virtual Tours for Kids

Virtual Field Trips for Kid featuring National Zoo, Manatees, White House and Yosemite

Wishing you the very best as we fight this together. Take this time while you’re stuck at home to explore the world virtually and help us work together to fight the spread of the Coronavirus around the world.

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JOIN our Virtual Book Club for Kids

Do you have a favorite virtual tour that you love? Please share with me in the comments.

Like this idea? Pin for later or share now with a friend!

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Filed Under: Kids Activities, Science Tagged With: Around the World, grade school, Preschool, Travel, Virtual Field Trip

About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Charlotte says

    March 27, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    Thank you this is cool not as cool as google earth

    Reply
  2. CHris says

    March 28, 2020 at 10:00 am

    THANK YOU THIS IS AN AMAZING RESOURCE

    Reply
    • Chicken says

      April 20, 2020 at 2:06 pm

      Nice

      Reply
  3. Breidy santana says

    April 20, 2020 at 2:06 pm

    Thanks for letting me know about this! It sounds cool!

    Reply
  4. Elijah Butler says

    April 30, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    that was very cool

    Reply
  5. Samantha Jerger says

    May 6, 2020 at 11:20 am

    You could do a virtual tour on Paris

    Reply
    • Kim Vij says

      May 7, 2020 at 4:18 pm

      You definitely could, I’ll try to put one together for you and share very soon on the site!

      Reply
  6. kartik says

    June 13, 2020 at 6:21 am

    that was very cool

    Reply
  7. Carolyn R Grace says

    September 2, 2020 at 8:54 am

    Is there a cost associated with these virtual field trips?

    Reply
    • Kim Vij says

      September 3, 2020 at 7:03 pm

      Most of these Virtual Field Trips are simply links to either the specific museums or locations offering a video of their facility or using Google Earth to explore a specific region such as our national parks. They are free to view at your convenience.

      Reply
  8. Kamile says

    September 4, 2020 at 8:02 am

    This is still fun! definitely helping their learning 🙂 easier to visit destinations from the comfort of their couch!

    Reply

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