Imagine taking your students on a field trip to Stonehenge... or perhaps to Independence Hall... maybe Pompeii? What, no time or funds to make such a trip? Well fortunately for us the folks at Google have applied their Street View technology to many important world sites making them available for virtual field trips.
Choose your destination from the drop-down menu at the top of the page and Google flies you in for a closer look. You can walk the site using your mouse to look up, down, left and right as well as to zoom. Google also offers teacher's guides under the "Education" tab at the top of the page.
Classroom Application: Use the site to lead students through an investigation of sites relevant to classroom instruction. Consider using it instead of static images to increase interest and engagement. You might also pose a set of questions to your students about a certain location, asking them to find and justify their answers by searching the site.
Link: Google World Wonders Project
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