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Field Trip Welcome to our weekly field trip page. Here we will try to add interesting, educational and fun sites every week. You can help your kids tap into the vast resources of the Internet. This is a great resource to homeschoolers, teachers, parents, daycare providers or anyone else who might be interested. You can bookmark this page and come back once a week, or sign up for the free weekly newsletter, and you will get an email that will tell you what updates have been made. As always, if you have come across sites that you think might go under this category, please send me an email to: info@parenthub.com
National Geographic - This is the perfect field trip with the kids, they even have a kid section with great interactive ways to explore. Find excerpts from the magazine, educational aids. Tips to some great places to go when traveling and much more. Dinosaur sounds - We know they used to roam the earth, but we don't know exactly what they looked like or what kind of sounds they made. Fortunately we can make educated guesses though. Voice print expert Matsumi Suzuki gauged the size of dinosaurs’ vocal tissues from the dimensions of their skulls, compared them with living animals and guessed what kind of sounds the dinosaurs would have made. Listen to T-Rex, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus and other pre-historic animals to find out what they might have sounded like. WebCams - Take a trip to an African watering hole, see an orangutan monkeying around, see the otter keeping busy or the shark swimming around, see the cheetah in its habitat or search web camera databases to find exactly what you want or need like - traffic, landmarks, people, animals etc. Join Titanic on the Ocean Floor - Join the Discovery Channel as they take you on a tour of the Titanic on the bottom of the ocean floor. Be part of the whole experience via web cameras, real video, a computer animation of the accident itself, audio webcasts, photos, and stories. You can see what different areas looked like in 1912, before she sank versus now, underwater. I spent some time on the Discovery Channel site and I found it quite thrilling. RMS Titanic - Follow the RMS Titanic's online coverage with their Expedition Calendar, featuring daily dispatches from the North Atlantic. RMS Titanic, Inc. is conducting its fifth Research and Recovery Expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic. Operations are now underway, as vessels continue to arrive on site for an expedition that will add a new chapter to the Titanic's story. Virtual Tour of the White House - What better time to take a field trip to the White House than for Independence Day? Learn about the history of the White House, see what the inside of the White House looks like -- past and present pictures. Visit the kids corner to read about kids that have lived there over the years or send an email to the President or the First Lady. Go to the library section and read about the US Constitution and read the Declaration of Independence or read press briefings, radio addresses, Executive Orders, and all other publicly released White House publications. See portraits and biographical sketches of each President and each First Lady. Find all the necessary information about how to visit the White House in person and how to attend public events such as the Easter Egg Roll, special tours of the Christmas decorations and much more. Bayou Bob's Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch - "Bayou Bob" Popplewell, has over 35 years of experience. He invites you to explore his famous Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch. See a lot of greatly detailed photos of different snakes, find out about snake specie identification, behavioral traits, critical bite first aid, do's and don'ts in the field, dispelling myths and folklore, and a wide range of other topics. Send Your Name to Mars - This week your kids can be part of history. NASA has a site where they are collecting the names of school children to put on a CD-ROM that is to go to Mars on Dec. 3, 1999, on the Mars Polar Lander. It is free, and you can print out a certificate with your child's name on it. They also have other information about Mars missions, a 20 minute video (plug-in required) and some links to other interesting sites. Women In American History - This is a site dedicated to the women in American History. Here you will find history originating in early 1600 and going all the way to modern times. This is for a little older children or maybe even the parents themselves. Mungo Park - Here you will find interactive presentations on dinosaurs, resources for planning your own expeditions, reconstruct dinosaurs (requires shockwave plug-in), and many more resources. Tool for Diplodocus - Together with your computer and a shockwave plug-in you can build a dinosaur out of a pile of bones. Dig a
Dinosaur - This site takes you on a virtual journey to dig up a dinosaur. You can Larry Williams' Skeletal Sculptures - Larry Williams is the creator of these dinosaur sculptures. He has a formal education in art and geology. Dinosaur Art and Modeling - Here you will find images of dinosaurs, links to other sites, links to museums. It takes a while to load, so patience is a virtue. Dinofest - The Academy of Natural Sciences is putting on an exhibition of dinosaurs and collections of minerals, fossils and paleontological art between March 27 - April 26, 1998 in Philadelphia. At their website you can find images, information, teacher resources, links to other sites, information about the exhibits and the event in general etc. Dinosaur Illustrations - A great site where they have compiled illustrations from all over the web, from museums, universities etc. of pretty much any dinosaur you might be interested in. What Is A Dinosaur? - Here is another great site for dinosaurs. You can find fact-sheets for many different dinosaurs, you'll find links to other great sites and general information about dinosaurs, dinosaur myths, anatomy and physiology and much more. Scrambled Dinosaurs - This is a cute game. You can use it one of two ways, either to see pictures of dinosaurs, or to mix the pictures up and make weird dinosaurs with silly names by using the tail of a one, the middle of another and the head of a third dinosaur. The DinoSociety - Here you will find great information, images of different dinosaurs and links to related sites. The Exploratorium Science Snacks - This is part of the San Francisco Exploratorium's website. Each Snack begins with a photograph of itself, a short introduction and a list of the materials needed. Other sections give assembly instructions, contain descriptions of how to use the completed exhibits, and explain the science behind them. Most of the Snacks can be completed by one person. If a partner or adult help is needed, this is indicated. San Francisco Exploratorium - At this section of the exploratorium you can visit virtual exhibits, images, sounds etc. You can even see a live view of the museum floor as well as of the Golden Gate Bridge. A-Z of what's at the exploratorium and much more... Presidents of the United States - This is definitely a little bit more for school aged children. Here you can find background information, election results, cabinet members, presidency highlights, and some odd facts on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included. The Nine Planets - This site will take you on a tour of the solar system. Functions as an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has information and pictures, some have sounds and movies. You will find information on hundreds of planets, moons, comets, asteroids and more. Explore it together with your children, or use it as a resource for home work assignments. WhaleNet Slide Show - This is slide show central. Many different slides/pictures of whales that will ensure you a good old time if you are fascinated by whales. Virtual Whale Watching - This site will take you on a tour of their Whale Watching trip. But whales won't be the only thing you'll see on this trip, bald eagles, sea lions and even a seal is part of the journey. Here you will find both facts as well as gorgeous pictures. Virtual Whales - Here you can find facts as well as QuickTime movies and sound files for the visualization of the feeding behaviors of Pacific Humpback Whales. The Puzzle Depot - Here you can find crosswords, board and logic games, skill contests, riddles and word puzzles. You can even play for prizes or subscribe to their weekly Puzzle newsletter and top it all off with an IQ test. J.J. the orphaned
baby gray whale - J.J. was rescued by volunteers and was brought to Sea World in San
Diego where she has been cared for ever since. You can see pictures taken by an underwater
camera, find a section teaching you all about Grey whales, another area keeps you up to
date with J.J's progress and what is being done for her. You can The Franklin Institute Science Museum - Learn how to predict weather, visit virtual pets in the virtual Robot Zoo and learn how a chameleon changes color? How can a fly walk on a ceiling? Resources for Life Science and much more. Strange but True - Love dinosaurs? Here you have little known facts about dinosaurs, with pictures, links to other dinosaur related sites and a glossary of terms. Zoo In the Wild - This is a virtual zoo of African mammals and birds. You can view pictures of the animals as well as learn about their behavior, eating habits etc. Some of the animals even have sound clips associated with them, so you can hear what the animals sound like (if you have a sound card). Astronomical Images Archive - A continually growing source of astronomical photos of and information about a variety of local and deep sky objects. The images were collected from a variety of sources throughout the Internet.
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