Virtual Classroom
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- A Year on the Wing - Innovative on-line documentary about bird migration from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- Backyard Biology - a beautiful site from the US on the value of the local in fieldwork.
- Dark Peak Virtual Tour - University of Manchester field trip - excellent example.
- Euroturtle - a study of turtle conservation and biology.
- Field Trip Earth - Smithsonian site for global conservation projects.
- Lathkill Dale NNR - English Nature's newest project.
- Transgenic Fly Lab - excellent site for genetic experiments
- Virtual Coursework - US site with some excellent graphics but in imperial measurements. Try the rivers exercise.
- Virtual Rocky Shore and Virtual Sand Dune System - BES field trips. To access, pulldown link "Teachers 16+" and go to "other resources".
- Virtual Tour of the UK Heather Moors
- Water on the Web - excellent site from the University of Minnesota with a wide range of animations, data exercises, etc. examining basic water chemistry and ecology.
- Web Quest - most good sites use some of the ideas from here. Make your own virtual exercise.
- Windows into Wonderland - virtual field trips around Yellowstone National Park in the US.