Electronic Field Trips

Dial In to the Discovery Center
Would you like to take your students on a field trip without the worry of buses, permission slips, and where to eat lunch? The Discovery Center offers a solution to your field trip dilemma. Take a "Virtual Field Trip" through video conferencing and experience a hands-on lab with a science specialist. Choose from a variety of 60 minute hands-on labs, which are aligned to National Science Standards.

Dial in Requirements

• Video Conferencing Unit (Polycom, Vtel, ITV)
• IP or ISDN* connection capabilities for videoconferencing
• 384 preferred connection speed (256-512 capable)

* ISDN connections will require a bridge.

• If you are in the Indiana AVS system, please go to the following site to order your bridge: http://www.ihets.org/forms/va_video_certification/index.html
• If you do not have access to a "free" bridge, then there will be an Additional Charge of $50 per hour program for an ISDN connection that we will arrange.

Dial Out from the Discovery Center
Take your students on a field trip around the World. Visit places such as NASA, the Museum of Modern Art, Mote Marine Lab, Liberty Science Center, National Aviary, the Buffalo Zoo, St. Louis University, and many other locations.

Programs must be scheduled at least three weeks in advance. To register, visit our registration page. For inquiries, call Hayley Budd at 417-862-9910 ext. 726 or email Hayley at hbudd@discoverycenter.org.

Learn more about the history of our program in the new book, Distance Learning in K-12 Instruction