How to take a virtual field trip

Discover how to whisk your students away to museums, Mars, and more, without leaving the classroom

By Google Arts & Culture

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Visiting without barriers

Whether you're visiting a museum, historic site or location in a far flung place, Expeditions, also known as virtual field trips, are available to everyone, anywhere, with a web browser or mobile device.

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Planning is key

If you are a teacher, we recommend that you start by reading through the tour, to get an idea of what it's about. Check to see if it covers the subject you want to teach. Do you want to run through the whole thing or just pick out highlights?

Perseverance Touching Down on Mars (Illustration) (2020)NASA

Near or far

You can take the class to a wide variety of places. From a visit to the local museum, to a quick trip to Mars. You can project the tour on a screen or share it on Google Classroom. These tours are a mixture of 360° and 2D imagery. There are no pop ups within the panoramas.

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Past, present and future

There are tours that look at the past, that explain how systems work today and what we should be thinking about to preserve our future. You can search for a specific tour or browse through by subject: arts, natural history, science and technology, geography, history

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And there's more...

Once you've been through a tour with your class there are more virtual field trips to try or you can go to  Learn with Arts & Culture. There's subject related material and lesson plans that you can use in the classroom or give to students as worksheets to work through at their own pace.

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Ready to begin your virtual field trip?

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