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What if you could celebrate Earth Day by taking your students on an adventure to the Galapagos Islands, where they could dive deep into the ocean to see underwater mountains? What if your students could ask marine biologist and National Geographic Explorer Salome Buglass  about how she surveys these landforms that rise from the ocean floor? What if I told you all of this was possible through a Virtual Field Trip?

Game-changing tools and resources like Virtual Field Trips are helping young people experience the wonders of our world no matter where they are learning this Earth Day — at home, in the classroom, or anywhere in between. These tools can help educators kindle in their students a deep appreciation for the planet and an understanding of the important role they play in improving it.

Let’s say that your students are learning about the ocean—one of our planet’s most precious natural resources. To celebrate Earth Day, the National Geographic Society has developed free resources and experiences to help educators enable learners to dive underwater and discover the blue beating heart of our planet in powerful ways, even if they live nowhere near a coastline. Here are some engaging and impactful ways to spark curiosity in your students to learn about this remarkable natural wonder.

Take a virtual field trip : This week, National Geographic Explorers Salome Buglass , Brian Skerry , and Sruthi Gurudev are co-hosting a Virtual Field Trip  underneath the sea. In this free online video, learners can virtually swim with whale pods, investigate underwater mountains in the Galapagos Islands, and learn how eco-journalism is empowering youth to drive solutions to crises facing our ocean. This adventure encourages young people to develop an explorer’s mindset:learning about the world, how it works, and how they can make a difference.

Interact with National Geographic Explorers in real time :  An explorer’s mindset is driven by an insatiable curiosity that prompts young people to ask important questions such as, “What impact does human behavior have on the ocean and its inhabitants?” Learners can get answers to these questions in real time from renowned experts during Explorer Classroom —live, interactive video talks on YouTube that connect young people with National Geographic Explorers as they share their experiences and adventures in the field. Register your class for a special Earth Day event to learn how marine sanctuaries can preserve and improve the health of vital ecosystems in the ocean. And following the event, check out our event guide , which helps students, educators and families make the most out of the experience.

Explore with citizen science  apps:  Interactive apps can transform young people’s personal devices into tools that help them conduct real scientific research and make a positive difference for the planet. This Earth Day, learners can join the Restoration and Recovery Challenge, available through a free app called Seek , to explore, observe, and analyze the world around them. Learners are encouraged to be citizen scientists, use their cell phones to observe litter in their environment, and take action to reduce household waste that would otherwise find its way into the ocean. Another free citizen science app,   iNaturalist , helps young people identify organisms using a cell phone camera and connects them with a community of over a million scientists and naturalists working to better understand and protect nature. Becoming a citizen scientist is a great way for young people to contribute to scientific research and make a difference.

Dive into m aps , books and articles:  While edtech tools can help create powerful Earth Day learning experiences, it’s critical that they’re complemented by low-tech and no-tech options that offer equally high-quality learning to all students. Explore a   wealth of books ,   articles and maps  that can engage young people of all ages about the ocean for Earth Day—none of which requires a device or Internet connection.

No matter where students are in the world, they can still discover and learn about the Earth—all of its beauty, mysteries, and complexities—using engaging resources that ignite their curiosity and wonder. As Salome says , “There is literally an entire world out there that still needs exploring.” In doing so, educators can also encourage young people to build empathy for the Earth and understand how they can build a healthier, thriving planet. That is truly something to celebrate.

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Vicki Phillips is Chief Education Officer at the National Geographic Society. Follow her at @DrVickiP.

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Come on in … the big blue is lovely in these immersive videos and live streams – from diving on the Great Barrier Reef to swimming with sharks off Mexico

• 10 virtual tours of the world’s natural wonders

Coral reef wonders

Exploring the world’s best-known coral environment, on the east coast of Australia, David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef is an interactive journey around this “beautiful but threatened world”. It delves in detail into some of the 1,500 fish species and 600 coral types that live on the 133,000-square-mile reef, to tell the story of one of Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems and the damage done to it by climate change – through interactive timelapses, videos, weather maps and even a “mantis shrimp vision” tool. As part of the Netflix documentary Chasing Coral, which investigates coral bleaching around the world, the Ocean Agency has created a series of 360 degree images on Google Earth (click through the tabs bottom left to fly between locations). Also try AirPano,which offers a glimpse of a multicoloured reef near Komodo Island in Indonesia via an interactive photo .

Swimming with sharks

Duuun dun. Duuun dun. Dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun … Perhaps nothing will ever beat that film when it comes to galeophobia-inducing experiences, but there are plenty of virtual ways of getting up close, too . The great white can grow up to six metres in length and reach a speed of 35 mph. It gets spine-tinglingly close in this 360 degree video in Guadalupe Island off Mexico’s Baja California, where the viewer sits just outside the cage. Elsewhere, National Geographic has created an immersive video of a face-to-face encounter with a hammerhead shark in the Bahamas. The Discovery Channel captured a whale shark – the largest fish on the planet- in 360 degrees. And the MythBusters team from the same channel also shot around 30 reef sharks together near the Bahamas’ Ray of Hope shipwreck, as part of a wider research project on sharks’ fears. If you’re lucky, you might even catch a glimpse of one on Exploreorg’s webcam stream in the Atlantic off Cape Fear, North Carolina.

Dolphin diving

Swim with wild dolphins in a 360-degree video by the Dolphin Swim Club, created as a “cruelty-free alternative for so-called dolphin-assisted therapies with captive dolphins”. The research organisation has also developed waterproof UnderwaterVR goggles, allowing swimmers to experience virtual wild dolphins and associated therapeutic effects. In the Bahamas, the Dolphin Project calls for viewers to take the pledge, during its 360-degree video , not to buy tickets to shows that use captive dolphins. And BBC Earth’s Our Blue Planet VR video series includes an immersive virtual reality experience of bottlenose dolphins and oceanic manta rays. A marine biologist narrates the scene off the coast of Mexico, near San Benedicto island, and although filmed for 3D, it is worth a watch even without a VR headset.

Kelp forest coastlines

Underwater jungles of kelp cover around 25% of the world’s coastlines, and each wide blade of the ribbon-like seaweed can grow up to two feet in a day. Helping to fight climate change, kelp is highly efficient at storing carbon from the atmosphere – an estimated 600m tonnes a year, around twice as much as the UK emits. Ocean First Education, which provides marine science courses online, has created an immersive video venturing through Anacapa’s kelp forests in California’s Channel Islands national park, which also has its own webcam stream . The nearby Channel Islands national marine sanctuary takes a narrated virtual dive with some playful sea lions . Elsewhere, BBC Earth’s 360 degree footage takes a dip in a Norwegian kelp forest, and another at Monterey Bay, California .

Shipwreck expeditions

Exploring shipwrecks usually requires a diving qualification, but these interactive virtual tours take viewers into underwater sites without any danger. There are several 360-degree videos of exploration around New Zealand, including the HMNZS Canterbury , a frigate warship, sunk to provide an artificial reef and dive wreck in 2007; and the MS Mikhail Lermontov , an ocean liner. The latter’s central staircase and starboard entrance collapsed after an earthquake in 2016, so this video is now the only way to see these features. Another 360-degree video tour with voiceover narration explores the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm, an armed Merchant Navy ship that was bombed in October 1941 near Ras Muhammad in the Red Sea, and is now a well-known diving site.

Turtle tours

There is something magical about sea turtles – they can hold their breath under the water for up to seven hours, the live to around 100 years old, and their favourite meal is jellyfish with seagrass. National Geographic shot this 360-degree video in Buck Island Reef in the US Virgin Islands, one of the first protected marine monuments in the US, created in 1961. It includes a rare glimpse of tiny hatchlings as they head from nest to sea at night. Similarly, this 360-degree footage by the BBC captures a nest on a desert island beach in the Caribbean. An Airpano video captures a larger adult sea turtle off Cuba’s largely uninhabited Jardines de la Reina archipelago in the Caribbean. Almost all species of turtles are now endangered, facing an increasingly difficult battle against a range of threats – from mistaking plastic for food to poaching and light pollution on the beach.

Roaming for rays

Rays have the greatest brain-to-size ratio of any fish. The largest is the manta ray, which can grow up to seven metres in length. One of the best places to see them is Indonesia, as seen in this 360 video by AirPano , shot off the coast of Raja Ampat, West Papua, which captures one of the giant aquatic gliders over a reef. The Discovery Channel also caught a close-up immersive video of mantas swimming with whale sharks, and has a marine biologist explaining why anchor species like these are vital to the survival of the oceans. Often confused with manta rays, devil rays are their smaller cousin, with a mouth slightly under the face instead of in front, and pointier “horns”. This 360-degree video takes a dip with a group of them off the coast Santa Maria island in the Azores.

Floating with jellyfish

They may not have a brain, a heart, bones or eyes, but jellyfish can be deadly. The gelatinous sea creatures have a “nerve net” controlling feeding, swimming and protective actions, and often a set of trailing stinging tentacles – which in the case of the near-invisible sea wasp, the deadliest jellyfish on Earth, can kill a human with a dose the size of a grain of salt. Capturing the less terrifying, stingless, medusa species, in a lagoon in Raja Ampat in Indonesia, AirPano’s 360-degree video takes viewers in among a vast swarm – known as a smack of jellyfish. Another hypnotic immersive video shows a singular pulsating translucent blob off Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina.

Schooling and shoaling

The way fish move instinctively in coordinated unison is known as schooling, which is different to shoaling, when fish stick together for social reasons, such as defence, foraging or finding a mate. The shape of the schooling depends on the species - some form rectangles or ovals with back-and-forth swimming; others move in tornado sequences. Showing a variety of formations, this AirPano 360-degree video shows thousands of caranx and other reef fish near Malpelo Island, 300 miles off Colombia’sPacific coast. Another set of still 360-degree images , shot in the New Caledonian barrier reef in the South Pacific – the longest continuous barrier reef in the world at 930 miles – shows hundreds more colourful reef varieties (click the white arrows to explore the site). And this spectacular 360-degree footage by the BBC, captures a barracuda tornado off the coast of Sipadan Island, near Borneo, shot during filming for Attenborough’s Blue Planet II.

Other monsters of the deep

With a brain in the middle of the body controlling the nervous system, and several million neurons in their eight tentacles (allowing them to touch, taste and move objects independently), octopus are, not surprisingly, highly intelligent animals. They have been seen unscrewing jars, carrying coconut shells as armour and stacking rocks. Try to find the octopus at the start of this 360-degree video by YouTuber Frédéric B – it is almost completely disguised and continually changes the colour of its skin as it darts around, camouflaging itself against the rocky seabed. A narrated BBC Earth 360-degree diving video (shot for 3D headsets where possible), descends with a dive team at Browning Wall in British Columbia, Canada, passing giant Pacific octopus, a huge wolf eel out hunting, sea lions and starfish.

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Bring your classroom to life with reef’s ocean explorers virtual field trips.

This program is an interactive field trip simulation that includes engaging lesson plans and activities to give students experiences and connections to the marine environment without leaving their classroom. Students have the opportunity to explore what life is like as a marine scientist, performing exploration tasks and creating research trials as they complete field journals and become citizen scientists themselves. 

Each session is adaptable and can be modified to be taught in-person at school, off-site in the field, or entirely online in a virtual format. REEF Scientists will guide your students through the field trip, allowing for minimal preparation on the teacher's end. The virtual field trips curriculum follows the 5E lesson structure: Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, Evaluation. By following this structure, the programs are designed to supplement a teacher's classroom curriculum easily. 

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Begin your Ocean Explorers Virtual Field Trip today! Sign up on our Registration Page and receive your materials to start your adventure. To learn more about the virtual field trips, visit our Program Information page or email [email protected].  

Thanks to the generosity of REEF members and donors, at this time, groups can participate in the program at no cost. Expenses associated with the program are supported through REEF’s Oceans for All Fund. The Ocean for All Fund is a pooled scholarship fund supported by businesses, foundations, and individuals committed to investing in a more equitable future for marine conservation. This fund promotes inclusive opportunities for people to connect with, enjoy, and learn about the underwater world. REEF uses the fund in partnership with established organizations. It directly provides both in-person and online programs, ensuring that cultivating connections with the ocean is not limited by zip code. The Oceans for All Fund reduces barriers that restrict participation in REEF’s programs. To learn more about the Oceans for All Fund, visit our webpage .

Your Ticket Awaits: Travel the World Virtually with National Geographic this Fall

This year has unexpectedly grounded us. We’ve canceled vacations, rescinded reservations, and instead become all too familiar with every little detail of our homes. National Geographic’s Explorers have been grounded as well, but they’ve continued to push boundaries — even from home. Our storytellers continue to document and share stories of their communities, reflecting on the concepts of identity, migration, and social justice. Educators are adapting curriculums to reach students outside of the classroom. Scientists have refocused their research and observations to their own backyards, rather than in the field. Despite their circumstances, our Explorers have remained committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world. This fall, you’ll have the chance to hear directly from them about their groundbreaking work. We’re looking forward to the day we can travel again, but until then our virtual events season is your ticket to the world from the comfort of your home, no passport required.

On October 1 , we’ll embark on an expedition around the world with our 2020 Emerging Explorers — incredible changemakers who are transforming their fields. We’ll travel to Trinidad and Tobago to hear about the weird and wonderful animals that live in deep-sea habitats. Then we’ll head off to Ghana to learn about the social implications of artificial intelligence. We’ll continue on to the Democratic Republic of Congo where efforts are being made to protect Congolese biodiversity. We’ll join photographers on assignment in Chile and Nigeria, and take an intimate look at human and sociocultural issues and begin to question our assumptions about them. Our journey will also take us to Mexico City, where we’ll learn about rural and urban rainwater harvesting, to Nepal to hear how technology is being made accessible to all literacy levels, and back to the United States to learn how science exploration and outdoor field studies help prepare students for the modern workforce.

Next, we’ll visit Paradise, California, on November 10 with National Geographic Fellow and photographer Pete Muller. He’ll give us an in-depth look at the concept of solastalgia, which describes the emotional and existential distress caused by environmental change. He’ll discuss solastalgia through the lens of current events, including climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and the devastating fire that ripped through Paradise, California in 2018. He’ll share powerful photographs of the fire and its aftermath, as well as clips from Rebuilding Paradise , an inspiring documentary about the fire. The powerful film, directed by Ron Howard, will air commercial-free November 8 on the National Geographic Channel.

On November 22 , we’ll head to the American Prairie Reserve in northern Montana and to Iberá National Park in northeastern Argentina, where keystone species are being reintroduced in order to benefit the ecosystems and people who depend on them. Learn how conservationists are working to protect these threatened landscapes with a double feature of short films, Last Wild Places: American Prairie Reserve and Last Wild Places: Iberá National Park. Following the films, will be a discussion with the people behind the rebirth of these areas — including American Prairie Reserve CEO Alison Fox and Kris Tompkins, the co-founder and president of Tompkins Conservation — and the filmmakers who brought their incredible stories to life.

Finally, on December 3 we’ll travel to the Philippines to meet National Geographic Explorer and photographer Hannah Reyes Morales, who has documented how bedtime stories and children’s songs around the world reflect major global issues like conflict, migration, public health, and climate change. Her project, Living Lullabies, explores families’ nighttime rituals to illuminate critical issues facing women and children. Morales will share audio clips of lullabies from around the world, as well as stunning photographs of caregivers and their children during the intimate moments they share before drifting off to sleep.

Your fall itinerary is planned and all our virtual events are free — no need to pack your bags, plan for the weather, or request days off from work. Travel looks different this year, so we’re committed to bringing the world to you. The National Geographic Society invests in innovative and inspiring Explorers like those featured in this fall’s virtual events season. We are grateful for the generous support of our donors and supporters who help make this important work possible. Visit natgeo.org to learn more about our upcoming virtual events and how you can help make an impact on our planet.

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10 Best Virtual Ocean Adventures That You Can Experience Right Now

Pick the best virtual underwater experiences for you!

Immerse yourself underwater without getting yourself wet. These lovely virtual reality voyages take you along some stunning national marine sanctuaries for the best virtual ocean adventures ! Enjoy these mesmerising videos and live streams of the vast blue ocean that use 360-degree images to highlight its remarkable habitats, animals, and cultural resources underwater.

Here’s A List Of The Best Virtual Ocean Adventures To Experience

Exploring shipwrecks.

While shipwreck expeditions usually require a diving qualification, that won’t be an issue with these interactive virtual tours. On these virtual dives , you get to explore underwater sites without any danger. Check out these 360-degree immersive videos around New Zealand that include a look at ‘ HMNZS Canterbury ’ and ‘ MS Mikhail Lermontov ’. The former is a warship that was sunk to provide an artificial reef and dive wreck in 2007, while the latter is an ocean liner. ‘MS Mikhail Lermontov’’s central staircase and starboard entrance collapsed after an earthquake in 2016, and this video is now the only way to see its old features.

You can also explore the wreck of SS Thistlegorm, a British armed Merchant Navy ship through this 360-degree video tour . This virtual tour guides you around the wreck to see all its main features, along with a field of debris where it was bombed in October 1941 near Ras Muhammad in the Red Sea.

Virtual Coral Reef

With David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef , you will get to explore the world’s largest and longest coral reef system on the east coast of Australia. This interactive virtual underwater journey will take you around this “beautiful but threatened world” which tells the story of one of Earth’s most bio-diverse ecosystems. Through this virtual experience, you’ll get to explore the 133,000-square-mile-long reef and some of the 1,500 fish species and 600 coral types that live there. This underwater tour also throws light on the damage done to the coral reef by climate change—through interactive time-lapses, videos, weather maps and a “mantis shrimp vision” tool.

On Netflix, you can also watch ‘Chasing Coral’, a documentary that investigates coral bleaching around the world. Created by the Ocean Agency, it has a series of 360-degree images on Google Earth.

To get a glimpse of a multi-coloured reef near Komodo Island in Indonesia, you can try AirPano which uses interactive photo for a unique virtual expedition.

Virtual Dolphin Diving

This 360-degree video by the research organisation-Dolphin Swim Club was created as a “cruelty-free alternative for so-called dolphin-assisted therapies with captive dolphins”. It also allows you to swim with wild dolphins thanks to virtual reality. The organisation also developed waterproof UnderwaterVR goggles, which allows swimmers to experience virtual wild dolphins and its associated therapeutic effects .

You can also try the Dolphin Project in the Bahamas which calls for viewers to take a pledge through its 360-degree video . The pledge is to “not buy a ticket to a dolphin show”. If you want to see bottlenose dolphins and oceanic manta rays, have a go at BBC Earth’s ‘Our Blue Planet’ VR video series. Filmed off the coast of Mexico, near San Benedicto Island, it includes an immersive virtual reality experience of dolphins and manta ray. It’s also narrated by a marine biologist Erick Higuera, and although filmed for 3D, is worth a watch even without a VR headset .

Explore Kelp Forest Coastlines

Falling under the order of Laminariales, kelp is large brown algae seaweed. Kelp grows in “underwater forests” in shallow oceans, in colder areas. These underwater jungles of kelp cover around 25 per cent of the world’s coastlines, and are an important food source for a wide range of marine life. Each wide blade of this ribbon-like seaweed can grow up to two feet within a day, and due to its efficiency in storing carbon from the atmosphere, they are also being used to fight climate change. You can watch a mesmerising 360-degree video by Ocean First Education of Anacapa’s kelp forests in California’s Channel Islands national park here . The national park also has its own webcam stream .

You can also try BBC Earth’s 360-degree footage which allows you to take a dip in a Norwegian kelp forest, and another at Monterey Bay, California .

Virtual Turtle Tours

Did you know that besides being known for their long life, turtles can hold their breath underwater for up to seven hours? These magnificent creatures are easily recognised by their bony, cartilaginous shell and can be observed in their natural habitat in this 360-degree video in Buck Island Reef in the US Virgin Islands. This National Geographic video includes a rare glimpse of tiny hatchlings heading from their nests to sea at night.

You can also watch this 360-degree footage by BBC, which has captured a nest on a desert island beach in the Caribbean. Take a look at this AirPano video which captures (only on film) a larger adult sea turtle off Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina archipelago in the Caribbean. Nothing can beat the experience of seeing these gorgeous shelled creatures in real life, but we can make do with these virtual ocean adventures where we can glimpse them.

Also Read: 8 Of The Most Visually Striking Coral Reefs From Across The World

Virtual Diving With Sharks

Want to virtually relive ‘Jaws’? This is THE virtual ocean adventure for you! Hum along—Duuun dun. Duuun dun. Dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun, while this 360-degree video (virtually) takes you up close and personal with sharks. Another video by AirPano, this virtual tour allows you to dive with white sharks that can grow up to six metres in length and reach a speed of 35 mph. The filming of this video takes place in Guadalupe Island, off Mexico’s Baja California, one of the very few places where you can experience the program ‘Diving with sharks’. You will virtually go under the surface of the water at a depth ranging from 1.5 to 7 metres where you get to see sharks through a specially secured cage.

Also, You can also dive into an immersive 360-degree video on National Geographic where you come face-to-face with a hammerhead shark in the Bahamas. You can also catch a glimpse of the largest fish on earth—the Whale Shark, in this 360-degree video which was filmed off the coast of Mexico. The video was captured by Discovery Channel.  Another video by the same channel from the MythBusters team brings you face-to-face with a shiver of sharks. This video has around 30 reef sharks clubbed together near the Bahamas’ ‘Ray of Hope’ shipwreck and was part of a wider research project on sharks’ fears. You can also try Exploreorg’s webcam stream , to spot a shark in the Atlantic off Cape Fear, North Carolina. Nothing makes virtual ocean adventures more exciting than seeing sharks up close, but safely. 

Curious About Schooling And Shoaling?

Groups of fish that stay together for social reasons such as defence, foraging, or finding a mate, it’s called shoaling; whereas when a group moves instinctively in coordinated unison, it’s termed schooling.

The shape of schooling depends on different species, some form rectangles or ovals while swimming back and forth, others move in tornado sequences. In AirPano’s 360-degree video , you’ll get to see a wide range of formations of thousands of caranx and other reef fish near Malpelo Island. The video was shot 300 miles off Colombia’s Pacific coast. Switch to the New Caledonian barrier reef in the South Pacific (the longest continuous barrier reef in the world with 930 miles) in another set of still 360-degree images that shows hundreds of colourful reef varieties. BBC’s 360-degree footage captures a barracuda tornado off the Coast of Sipadan Island, near Borneo.

Discover Other Monsters Of The Deep

The eight-limbed mollusc that has its brain in the middle of the body controlling the nervous system, and the octopus along with its cousin, the squid, are all often considered “monsters of the deep”. Watch the 360-degree video by YouTuber Frédéric B and see if you can spot the octopus in the video. At the beginning of the video, you’ll see how it is almost completely disguised.

The video captures how the octopus continuously changes the colour of its skin as it darts around, camouflaging itself against the rocky seabed. Also, check out the narrated BBC Earth’s 360-degree diving video which was shot for 3D headsets where possible. This virtual ocean adventure descends with a dive team at Browning Wall in British Columbia, Canada. It allows you to watch a giant Pacific octopus, out hunting sea lions and starfish.

Roaming With Rays

Virtual ocean adventures are amazing because you can see potentially deadly stingrays without actually getting stung. Falling under the order Batoidei, rays are cartilaginous fish that are said to have evolved from sharks. Rays are predominantly marine and have the greatest brain-to-size ratio of any fish. Out of around 500 described species in 13 families, the largest is the manta ray. It can grow up to seven metres in length and one of the best places to see them is Indonesia. You can see that on your own in this 360 video by AirPano . This fascinating video was shot off the coast of Raja Ampat, West Papua, and captures one of the giant aquatic gliders over a reef.

Join marine biologist Luke Tipple in a close-up immersive video by The Discovery Channel which explains why we all need to protect manta rays. The video also captures mantas swimming with white sharks. Take a dip with a group of devil rays in a 360-degree video off the coast of Santa Maria Island, in the Azores.

Dare To Virtually Float With A Jellyfish?

Only five percent of a jellyfish’s body is solid matter, the rest is water. While they lack brains, blood, or even hearts, these bell-shaped marine animals can be quite deadly. Found in all ocean waters, this gelatinous sea creature has a “nerve net” which controls its feeding, swimming, and protective actions. While a jellyfish sting is not usually fatal for humans and results only in minor discomfort, it is said that the deadliest jellyfish on Earth, the box jellyfish, can kill a human with a ‘sting dose’ the size of a grain of salt.

Try AirPano’s 360-degree video to float around with the less frightening, stingless, medusa species. This virtual ocean adventure transports you to a lagoon in Raja Ampat in Indonesia where you get to enjoy a vast swarm, known as a smack of jellyfish. Another video by the same channel provides you with an opportunity to swim with a singular pulsating translucent blob off Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina.

So Where Do You Wish To Dive Next With The Help Of These Underwater Virtual Tours?

As virtual reality dives deep into the ocean, we bring you the best virtual ocean adventures around the world. Our travel plans might be put on hold due to the pandemic, but we can enjoy the underwater world through these virtual reality ocean experiences . These tours also bring to light how it is best to view them in their natural habitat rather than in captivity. Let us know how you enjoyed these adventures; if we have missed any of your favs, let us know in the comments below!

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Virtual Field Trips

If a trip on the Marine Science Floating Lab is not possible, students can still explore the world of the ocean with our Virtual Field Trips . Without leaving the classroom, students can see what lives in the ocean and discover why it is important for all of us to take care of the marine environment.

Each Virtual Field Trip focuses on one of the activities that students participate in when they are on board the Floating Lab, which has been operating since 1974 through the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

Each Virtual Field Trip contains:

• a video – Each activity video is approximately 13 minutes long, but using the built-in pauses will extend the length and allow students to interact with the content.
• student worksheets – Handouts have students record and analyze data from the onboard experiments and identify the marine organisms they see.
• post-video activities – One or more activities can expand the content of the Virtual Field Trip video.

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Teacher Instructions

The Teacher Instructions provide guidelines for presenting the Virtual Field Trip videos and indicate alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards.

Introduction and Wildlife Observation

Get an overview of the Floating Lab activities with this brief 5-minute video for both teachers and students. As the boat motors through the harbor, students can look for and record the various marine wildlife encountered.

Plankton, the base of the food chain, is collected and then viewed under an optical microscope. Students learn about and identify phytoplankton and zooplankton and discover plankton’s importance to the health of our environment.

Fish and Invertebrates

A trawl net is towed behind the boat to collect a representative sample of fish and invertebrates. Students discover the morphology and adaptations of some of the sea creatures brought up in our net.

Bottom Sediment

After a special device “grabs” sediment from the ocean floor, students examine the sediment’s characteristics as well as the organisms that live in this benthic zone of the ocean.

Water Clarity, Color, and Temperature

Using scientific equipment, students measure the clarity, color, and temperature of the water in the harbor. Then they determine why tracking these characteristics is important.

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Virtual Field Trip: Aquarium Live Feeds and Ocean Webcams

Did you know you can get your ocean travel fix with webcams from aquariums, reefs, and zoos around the world? Take a virtual field trip from the comfort of home with these aquarium live feeds of tropical reefs, jellyfish, penguins, sharks, manatees and more. (Spoiler: be sure to scroll all the way through, since I saved the sea otters for last!)

Perfect for homeschooling, travelers in-between trips, shark week fans, kids who love ocean life, or anyone who needs some zen right now. Be sure to bookmark or pin it for later, and share these aquarium live feeds with anyone who needs a virtual field trip!

Don’t miss the bonus section at the end of this article with ocean distance learning resources for educators and parents ( click here to jump to the ocean education resource list ).

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Virtual Field Trips: Aquarium Live Feeds, Coral Reefs and Sea Life Webcams

Note: some feeds might show highlights at night time or a dark screen or when exhibits are closed. Be sure to check back during daylight hours for the webcam’s time zone!

Tropical Reef Camera: Field Trip to Aquarium of the Pacific

First on our aquarium virtual field trip: the Aquarium of the Pacific! The Tropical Reef Habitat is the largest exhibit (over 350,000 gallons of water!) at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California USA. It’s modeled after the reef system in the Blue Corner, one of the most famous and bio-diverse dive sites on earth. The Blue Corner is located in Palau, a nation of over 500 islands in Micronesia.

Penguin Webcam at the Saint Louis Zoo

Watch penguins live at the Saint Louis Zoo between the hours of 9AM to 5PM (Central time). Tune in throughout the day to see zookeepers feeding the animals and cleaning habitats, birds swimming and diving, resting, preening, building nests and sometimes even raising their young at Penguin & Puffin Coast. During off hours, a replay is shown.

Jellyfish Cam: Monterey Bay Aquarium

Next on our virtual field trip, we head over to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California. This mesmerizing live feed is from the Pacific Sea Nettles exhibit here. While they look peaceful, the graceful tentacles of these jellyfish paralyze their prey. Their tentacles can be 12-15 feet long, and they’re found in coastal waters off Alaska to California, Japan, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea.

Kansas City Zoo Field Trip: Polar Bear Cam

Our virtual aquarium field trip takes us next to the Kansas City Zoo. Nuniq (pronounced “new-nick”) was born at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in 2016 and arrived in Kansas City in 2020. You will frequently see him splashing around in the pool and tearing up some of his favorite toys.

Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty

No virtual aquarium field trip would be complete without a stop at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago! Relax with their “Underwater Beauty” exhibit with angelfishes, wrasses, tangs and butterflyfishes. (I’ve included more educational resources from Shedd at the end of my article .)

Coral City Camera: Miami, Florida

Let’s travel next to Florida, where an underwater camera features a livestream of an urban reef off the coast of Miami. The Coral City Camera provides a fish-eye view into the urban marine ecosystem that has developed around the human-made shorelines of Miami.

Homosassa Springs Virtual Field Trip: Manatee Cam

No virtual aquarium field trip would be complete without manatees! This manatee cam is from Homosassa Springs, Florida, which manatees use as a warm water shelter from mid-November to late March each year. The rest of the year, Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park is home to rehabilitated manatees; current residents include Ariel, Betsy and Electra.

If you’re interested in visiting Florida to see manatees in person, check out my guide to Crystal River and Homosassa with tips on how to find a responsible tour for interacting with these amazing creatures!

Kelp Forest Virtual Field Trip: Channel Islands National Park Cam

The next peaceful stop on our virtual field trip is courtesy of the National Park Service. This webcam live streams a kelp forest from Anacapa Island off the coast of California. Kelp forests are rich in biodiversity with hundreds of resident marine species. The undulating kelp and fish that swim by also make for a very soothing live feed!

Shark Lagoon Cam: Aquarium of the Pacific

It’s shark week every week at this next stop on our virtual aquariums tour! The 10,000 square foot Shark Lagoon at Aquarium of the Pacific features a live webcam. Inhabitants include sand tiger, zebra and white tip sharks.

Cape Fear Virtual Field Trip: Shark Cam

The next shark stop on our virtual field trip is from a live underwater cam beneath the Frying Pan Tower, 34 miles off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina. The tower is now obsolete, having been built in the in the 1960s to warn ships of the shallow waters nearby. While the tower is no longer used for its original purpose due to the development of GPS navigation, it remains an important habitat for sharks, fish, and other marine wildlife.

Open Sea Cam: Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Open Sea is the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s largest exhibit. Watch long enough and you can see yellowfin tuna, hammerhead sharks, pelagic stingrays, green sea turtles, dolphinfish (mahi mahi) and schools of Pacific sardines. Be sure to tune in every weekday at 11AM (Pacific) for a narrated feeding time.

Wrasse and Anthias: Aquarium of the Pacific

This virtual aquarium webcam is one of the most active and colorful live feeds, from the anthias and wrasses exhibit in the Tropical Pacific Gallery at the Aquarium of the Pacific.

Monterey Bay Live Cam Field Trip

This live feed offers a view of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s ocean view decks and relaxing sounds of the surf. From here, you can see bird and sea mammals like black cormorants, harbor seals and sea otters. It’s part of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, a federally protected marine area offshore of California’s central coast.

Beluga Boat Field Trip: Manitoba, Canada

This live feed will resume in July, but it’s worth watching the highlights until then! Every summer, nearly 60,000 beluga whales travel from the Arctic to the warmer waters of the Churchill River in Manitoba, Canada. This live underwater cam is situated on the Beluga Boat, where you can get a whale’s eye view of belugas swimming, eating and nursing their calves.

Rubbing Beach Underwater Orca Cam

In British Columbia, more than 150 orca whales spend their summer in Johnstone Strait at Blackfish Sound. This camera lets you watch up close as these whales exhibit something unique to this group: they like to rub their bellies against the smooth pebbles of the beach!

ReefCam from Nature Conservancy Australia

This livefeed features an underwater view of the rocky reef in Port Philip Bay, off the coast of Melbourne, Australia. The camera is solar powered, so it shows highlights when offline.

Moon Jelly Cam: Monterey Bay Aquarium Field Trip

Need a little more zen? Check out the webcam from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s exhibit of greater Pacific moon jellies.

Sea Otter Cam: Monterey Bay Aquarium Field Trip

I’ve saved the cutest for last on this virtual aquarium field trip: sea otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium! There are currently 5 in residence, including Abby, Ivy, Rosa, Kit and Selka. All are rescued and unable to be returned to the wild, but they often serve as surrogate moms for rescued pups. Find out more about their stories and cheeky personalities here and tune in every weekday at 10:30AM, 1:30PM, and 3:30PM (Pacific) for a narrated feeding time.

Bonus Aquarium Field Trip Stop: Otters at the Vancouver Aquarium

Head over to the Vancouver Aquarium website to check out all of their webcams which are OTTERLY adorable! Don’t miss their underwater otter cam , above-water sea otter cam and baby sea otter cam .

Bonus Aquarium Field Trip Stop: Ocean Voyager Webcam

Hop over to the website of the Georgia Aquarium to see their Ocean Voyager exhibit, which contains rays, whale sharks, green sea turtles and many other forms of aquatic life. While you’re there, be sure to check out their southern sea otters and California sea lions webcams.

Bonus Stop: National Aquarium Blacktip Reef Exhibit

Visit the website of the National Aquarium in Baltimore Maryland to see the livefeed of their Blacktip Reef exhibit , a recreation of an Indo-Pacific reef, as well as their Pacific Coral Reef and Sea Nettles exhibits.

Ocean Education Resources for Educators, Parents & Others

Looking for more resources for developing lesson plans or distance learning experiences centered on aquatic life and the world’s oceans? Check out this resource list!

• The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Connecticut is currently streaming education programs for families each week – register in advance to get the free links. They also offer paid distance learning sessions for schools .
• The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) has many online educational resources suitable for different age groups. Be sure to check out their lesson plans , ocean exploration facts , educational materials by theme and fun Octonauts Corner with coloring pages and information for younger explorers.
• The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts has resources for K-12 students and teachers including teacher workshops, classroom activities, online expeditions, marine careers and more.
• The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has been hosting tons of online educational sessions while the aquarium is closed. Check out the Shedd Aquarium Facebook page for what’s coming up next including free Facebook Live sessions and paid virtual “summer camps.” Plus, catch up on all their past Penguin Tours here – when their penguins Wellington, Annie, Edward and others tour the aquarium – and all of their educational Shedd Stay Home sessions .
• The Monterey Bay Aquarium has courses with full lesson plans to support learning at home for pre-K through grade 12, in both English and Spanish. They also have information resources on ocean animals .
• The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History has online resources in its Ocean Portal Educators’ Corner . You can search lesson plans by grade level and lesson subject or explore their Ocean Portal for more online resources.
• The Ocean Exploration Trust and its Nautilus exploration program have education resources online . Check out the different education themes or browse by resource type including learning modules, mini-lessons, activities, games and coloring pages. Learn more about its expeditions here .
• The Georgia Aquarium is hosting online events for kids like story time and learning sessions – find their events calendar here and check out their Facebook page .
• Watch past videos from Reefs Go Live and get teacher resources to accompany each lesson..
• Check out National Geographic’s Ocean Education resources online for activities by age group.
• Explore a marine life encyclopedia from Oceana.org.
• The Living Oceans Foundation has a list of e-learning resources for grades K-12.
• PBS’s Jean-Michel Cousteau has online Ocean Adventure resources targeted mainly toward middle school students.
• The New England Aquarium is offering virtual visit resources with at-home projects and video presentations. They also have paid virtual animal encounters for groups via Zoom, including their penguin and marine mammal exhibits.
• Take a virtual field trip to the coral reefs of Palau with the Nature Conservancy. Includes a teacher guide.
• Explore the Sea Life Sydney aquarium virtually with videos, activities and more.
• Grab a sharks animal research freebie from We Pay Teachers.

More “Virtual Travel” Resources

Need more virtual travel ideas and online education resources.

Don’t miss my guide to virtual travel for kids , with tons of online learning resources and fun stuff like safari webcams, virtual field trips, travel books and ways to learn about other cultures.

Looking for another wildlife fix? Hop over to my zoo webcams and live safaris feature , which includes how to livestream a guided African safari for FREE each day!

Missing museums and monuments? Check out my Washington DC virtual field trip , with more than 150 ways to experience the U.S. capital from home!

Grown-ups should grab my list of 15 things to do when you can’t travel with tons of links to virtual tours, free online courses, global recipes, travel journal ideas, tips for organizing your travel gear, and more!

Wondering where the best snorkeling is in the U.S.?

My vote is for Dry Tortugas National Park, located on an island 70 miles from Key West, Florida. Find out how to visit Dry Tortugas on a day trip or overnight beach camping adventure!

Interested in seeing whale sharks and sea lions in the wild?

Don’t miss my guide to visiting La Paz, Mexico ! Here you can see whale sharks in the La Paz Bay and visit a colony of sea lions at the protected Isla Espiritu Santo UNESCO biosphere.

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Revisit History in Our Virtual Field Trip

Our history is made up of stories, but there are stories from our past that have been silenced—sometimes for centuries. In order to fully understand our present, we must reckon with our past.

The National Geographic Virtual Field Trip: Revisiting History focused on difficult but critical moments in history, specifically the systemic racism against Black communities in the United States. Originally airing on June 9, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET, this program explored sunken slave ships in the Atlantic Ocean and uncovered the truth about a one hundred-year-old massacre; both shedding light on often-neglected parts of American history. A recording of the field trip is available on our YouTube channel . 

This Virtual Field Trip discusses the enslavement of Africans in the Americas and racially-based violence in the United States. Please discuss the appropriateness of participation in this field trip with students and their guardians. The content is recommended for ages 14 and up.

The field trip features: 

• Tara Roberts: Tara is a National Geographic Explorer, storyteller, and underwater archaeology advocate who searches for and documents slave trade shipwrecks. She is a member of Diving With a Purpose, which works to retrieve stories lost in the depths of the ocean.
• DeNeen L. Brown: DeNeen is a Washington Post reporter who has covered stories about the Black middle class, poverty, the homeless, arts, and gentrification. Featured in the National Geographic documentary, Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer , DeNeen is researching details from our past that lend insight into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Learn more about the Tulsa Race Massacre with our StoryMap .

This Virtual Field Trip is hosted by Krista Strahan, and is presented in partnership with the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative .

Featured image: An archival image shows some of the destruction caused during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. (Library of Congress)

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will this be recorded so we can watch it later?

Yes! All of our past events can be found on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwDYgc65Zhn5RaUe–9-efZTI5qyF0K1k

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