2009-2010 school year: 252
2010-2011 school year: 638
2011-2012 school year: 792
2012-2013 school year: 1,100
Field Trip Scheduling Forms
If your district has a Videoconference Field Trip Contract, Click here
If your district does not have a Videoconference Field Trip Contract, Click here
Teachers must coordinate all activities with their videoconference site coordinator at their districts.
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Important Updates
- Site coordinators who wish to receive email notices of upcoming videoconference field trips should notify Jane Chavez at Jane.Chavez@esc16.net.
Free Upcoming Videoconference Field Trips
Current offerings of FREE videoconference field trips
through Region 16 are also listed here
FREE!
Texas A&M University / PEER Program presents
The Scoop on Nutrition
Monday, July 1st 2013
10:00-10:45AM Central
Description: Join us as we get a veterinary student’s perspective on what nutrition is and explore the impact nutrition has on the health of our animals. This includes a discussion of the consequences associated with poor nutrition. We’ll discover how nutrition can be your first line of defense against the serious issues of obesity and diabetes, and how we can live happier, healthier lives with our pets. Veterinary anatomy specimens will be used to show parts of the digestive system.
Interactive Registration Link:
http://www.connect2texas.net/Connect2Texas_pages/register_begin.asp?eventID=14624
View only Registration Link:
http://www.connect2texas.net/Connect2Texas_pages/register_begin.asp?eventID=14625
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FREE!
Texas A&M University / PEER Program presents
Orthopedics Down to the Bone!
Monday, July 15th 2013:
10:00-10:45AM Central
Description: Unlock the mystery of the skeleton as we learn all about what bones are and how they function for the human and animal body. Discover what a fracture is and how the body can fix them. Become informed about innovative new research that is helping humans with bone disorders. Veterinary students from Texas A&M University will use anatomy specimens and x rays to show you the skeleton in a way you have never seen before!
Interactive:
http://www.connect2texas.net/Connect2Texas_pages/register_begin.asp?eventID=14626
View only:
http://www.connect2texas.net/Connect2Texas_pages/register_begin.asp?eventID=14627
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FREE!
Texas A&M University / PEER Program presents
Animal Behavior: Decoded!
Monday, July 29th 2013
10:00-10:45AM Central
Description: Join us as we decode and explore important animal behavior questions. How do I know when my pet is feeling happy, anxious, or aggressive? What do I do if I encounter a wild animal? What is rabies, and why do we need to vaccinate our pets against it? This will be a fun and interactive presentation while learning some of the many ways animals can communicate with humans. Veterinary students from Texas A&M University will present this program.
Interactive:
http://www.connect2texas.net/Connect2Texas_pages/register_begin.asp?eventID=14628
View only:
http://www.connect2texas.net/Connect2Texas_pages/register_begin.asp?eventID=14629
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Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
Experience live, interactive programs right in your classroom! Our educators use videoconferencing technology to share science and math activities with your students, engaging them in a dynamic, hands-on learning experience. Program kits sent to individual classroom teachers include nearly everything you need for students’ interactive experiments. Kits are yours to keep! All programs address National Science Education Standards.
CILC - Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
Search for over 1,200 unique teacher evaluated K-12 interactive video distance learning programs, aligned with national K-12 curriculum standards, offered by nearly 200 content providers from around the world.
Colonial Williamsburg
Teach American history with the new Electronic Field Trip season. This year’s live, interactive lessons explore the ratification of the US Constitution, Westward expansion, The War of 1812, slavery, as well as the rights of women and youth. 2012-2013 schedule.
COSI - Center for Science and Industry - Science Delivered at the Speed of Light
Videoconferencing connects your students with scientists, doctors, and experts in their fields with a LIVE interactive two-way experience with your school or from COSI.
HEC-TV Live!
Each program takes students live to artists, attorneys, archivists, or historians, in their own workspace be it a studio, rehearsal hall, theater, library, museum, or office. Programs are sixty minutes in length and presented during regular school day hours. Calendar.
Library of Congress
Free programs are appropriate for teachers, librarians, media specialists, and university faculty. Events may be scheduled Monday–Friday, during normal working hours, Eastern time. Times are flexible, depending on Library staff availability, time zone differences, and varied work schedules across the country. Programs should be requested at least two weeks in advance of the proposed conference date.
Manhattan School of Music
With over a decade of experience in the field of distance learning and as the first conservatory in the nation to utilize videoconferencing for K-12 music education, Manhattan School of Music has adopted the key elements of presenting successful music education programs via live, interactive videoconferencing technology.
Mariner's MuseumJust as man has used the sea to journey around the world for thousands of years, The Mariners’ Museum now uses Interactive Videoconferencing to offer programming to schools across the country and around the globe.
Milwaukee Public Museum
MPM is the intersection of human history and natural science. We educate, explore, discover and preserve the world and its people.
Muskingum Valley ESC
MVESC offers numerous interactive student lessons that were created from the Ohio Academic Content Correlations. Most student sessions are available upon request and are accompanied by program extensions that build student comprehension.
National Parks
Click the above link to access participating sites. Those parks offer distance learning programs that may allow them to share curriculum-based programming about the park with your students through the web, audio or video conferencing. Please bear in mind that there may be limitations to the scope and technical compatibility between the park programs and those at your school. Contact the park for details.
National Baseball Hall of Fame
The next best thing to visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame is participating in a videoconference. The award-winning EBBETS Field Trip Series (Electronically Bringing Baseball Education To Students) transports the wonders of Cooperstown to your very own classroom. Baseball is used as the backdrop to help your students discover objectives in diverse topics like mathematics, geography, civil rights history, women's history, economics, communication arts, and more!
Not everyone can visit the USS Arizona Memorial personally. The Witness to History Videoconferencing program provides students and educators on both a national and international level with a unique and invaluable distance learning opportunity dedicated to the history of December 7, 1941. Through firsthand accounts, artifact examination, and expert historical interpretation the events surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack come alive for students.
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Where can you explore more than 500 million years of history across 26,000 square miles under one roof? Since opening as a one-room gallery called Pioneer Hall in 1933, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum has become the largest history museum in Texas. PPHM is committed to bringing new and engaging exhibits to students and teachers and demonstrating our relevance to every generation every day. PPHM's collections encompass a range of diverse subjects including art, history, archeology, paleontology, ethnology, geology, petroleum, textiles, weapons, transportation and sports. Videoconference scheduling through Connect2Texas.
Polycom's Content Providers Searchable Database
Polycom provides a free searchable database which offers educators worldwide access to more than 2,100 programs from content providers, making available video conferencing programs for the classroom. Updated daily, the database contains content opportunities from organizations such as zoos, museums, author's experts in the field and much more. Polycom partners with Berrien RESA to bring you this database.
Pro Football Hall of Fame
Each year, thousands of students tour the Pro Football Hall of Fame to learn about the rich history of professional football. If your class can’t make the trek to Canton, Ohio, let the Hall of Fame bring the museum to your school through its award-winning videoconferencing programs. Each program is educationally based and is supplemented by classroom activities which are aligned with national standards of education. Join in on these programs to learn such things as media literacy, history, careers, geography, math, language arts, character education and visual arts.
Saint Louis University School of Medicine - Cadaver Demonstration
Students will participate in an interactive human cadaver demonstration through videoconferencing (distance learning). The demonstration will expose students to the physiological and anatomic relationships of the major organ systems of the human body and describe to them how those systems can be affected by disease. Allows hi-def connections!
