Virtual Museums

Tours/Interactive Maps

Virtual Museums/Tours allow viewers to explore museums or distant locations as if they were actually there.

Indexes of Virtual Field Trips & Museums
The Teachers Guide
The Teachers Source
Index of online Museums
List of Museums

Virtual Museums
The Virtual Smithsonian

The Louvre Virtual Tour

Texas Capitol - virtual tour of the capitol
Texas Senate
Model Train Museum in California

Model Ships Museum in California

National Geographic Society
National Geographic s home for conservation
Virtual worlds
o Rain forest at night
o Urban sprawl  The New Suburg
o Monterey Bay Kelp Forest
o Great Barrier Reef
o Columbia River

Virtual Egypt
explore this huge multimedia resource about ancient Egypt including interactive maps, mummies, pyramids, hieroglyphics, gods, pharaohs, games, and much more!

Interactive maps give students opportunities to travel through parts of the world and through different times:

Wild World Map from National Geographic Society.
Profiles and photos of more than 1000 ecoregions, multimedia features, and more

National Geographic Map Machine - Political Map

Lewis and Clark s Historic Trail
read a timeline, interactive maps of their trip, excerpts from their journal, and biographies of the explorers.

Map of Central America, Mayan Archeological Sites.Interactive Map of Texas To find additional maps on other subjects search the PBS Website

Maps101 is an online learning program which provides subscription access to history maps, interactive maps, U.S. maps, world maps, flags, atlases, lesson plans and thousands of educational resources to support learning of social studies, history and geography in today's classrooms and libraries.

US Census 2000 State by state population data

Interactive Weather Information Network --By the National Weather Service

US Map

National Park Service

World Time
Shows globe with day/night shadowing
Choose a country and current time

Global Warming
Map illustrates the local consequences of global warming.
Curriculum guide for the Climate Impacts Map is included.