Agriculture virtual tours for kids

Living in the midwest, we try to get the kids interested in agriculture whenever possible. Here are a few links of ag tours that let the kids see the farms up close. The picture is a friend and fellow teacher during one of our summer Ag in the classroom "animal visits". That little pig loved her and squealed if I tried to even touch it. Little stinker!

Ag in the Classroom

Dairy Farming & Milk a cow

Christmas Tree Farm

4H Farming
Popping Corn

Student Experimental Farm

Barnyard Palace

Camp Silos- Farming Past to Present

Moo Milk

Agricultural Research Service

Summer Olympics Time

London is a little too far for most of us to get to.  So, take a minute to go through the sites below and find out more about the Summer Olympics.

NBC Olympic Moments

Olympics Fun Facts

Activity Village

Livestrong-Summer Olympics Facts for Kids

42 Explore Olympic Games

Go for the Gold Scholastic

Kids Connect-Olympics

Official Olympic Site Venues

Poetry

Instant Poetry Forms

Giggle Poetry

Castles

Castles for Kids

Castle of King Edward

Ghosts in the Castle

Castles 4 Kids (Huge selection of pictures.  Don't miss this link.)

December field trips for everyone.

I know that everyone has different things that are and are not allowed with the holidays in December. Please look through and find something that is appropriate for you and your students.

This is a small, mostly text and a few pictures, that shows you how Christmas is celebrated around the world.

http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm

Take your kids on a tour of some very cool Holiday light displays!

http://vimeo.com/2568667

http://vimeo.com/610626


Here are some great videos for the kids to watch!

12 Days of Christmas



This is not really a field trip but way too much fun!! Reindeer Orchestra:)

http://dingo.care2.com/cards/new/0422/Do-a-rain-deer.swf


Design a snowflake. Great for a little geometry lesson.

http://ww2.unime.it/dipart/i_fismed/wbt/mirror/ExplrSci/dswmedia/snwflak6-adv.htm

The North Pole is a great site with several different stops on it. Go around Santa's Village and learn different things.

http://www.northpole.com/

Here is a holiday maze that you have to listen to the story and click the pictures in the same order to get out of the maze. It times you so you can challenge your friends too. :)

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/i-spy/games/christmas

Welcome to Santa Claus at Claus.com!

http://www.claus.com/village.php

If you are watching the Polar Express and want to talk to the kids about the Northern Lights, try this site. This is a COOL video showing in quick speed, the Northern Lights aka Aurora Borealis!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2631078790090750578&ei=VqcrS8m0II-MqAL01LW9BQ&q=aurora+borealis&hl=en#docid=3563062868055332935

Welcome to another new school year!

I have been busy this summer and have added some goodies to my blog.  I taught a group of local teachers how to create their own virtual field trips and where to find some great ones.  Through this class, we compiled a huge list of teacher chosen virtual field trips for K-12!  Check out this page at the top of my blog that says Cyber Camp Virtual Field Trip list.  They are separated into grade levels and subjects.  Please use this and pass it on.  Let the others in the teaching profession pass on some goodies to you:)

You will also see another page at the top of my blog's homepage that says "Teacher and Student Favorite Websites".  I took a class earlier this summer and found a lot of my old favorites and some GREAT new ones!  I added a list of great sites, that are not necessarily field trips.  They are just great sites to teach with.  I use this site as a jumping off point for my students and invite you to do the same. 

If you ever find a super site for teachers or students and want to add it to my page, just message me or post a comment and I will add it in.

Thanks to all of the followers that have joined my blog and to those of you that are just stopping in:)

Leanne

Go on vacation without leaving home.

There are a lot of cool places that I would like to go to this summer, but I just don't have the time. Instead, I decided to make a list of them here so that I can visit them whenever I want. I hope you enjoy them too! Happy Summer!!
This picture is of my 3 children right after we got done riding the Channel Cat. It is a water taxi that takes you to several places around the Quad Cities while on the Mississippi River.

The Willis Tower(The old Sears Tower) in Chicago. This one may make you a little dizzy.

The St. Louis Arch, this one may make you dizzy too.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is an awesome tour!! It does take a while to load, but it is worth it.

I have been to The Statue of Liberty before, but it is nice to go back again and again!

This is a quick glimpse at The Seawall in Galveston, Texas. Sit back and watch the waves come in!