Virtual Tours & Virtual Reality
Explore places, cultures, and perspectives from around the world.
Virtual Tours and Virtual Reality (VR) create shared experiences that deepen learning, spark curiosity, and build understanding. Exploring places, cultures, and perspectives provides the context learners need to make connections and engage more meaningfully with ideas.
Experiences can be guided by the teacher or explored independently by students, depending on your learning goals and the age of your students. Tours can be used as stand‑alone experiences or as part of a broader unit, project, or learning pathway.
Educators use Virtual Tours & Virtual Reality in a variety of ways, including:
- Career and workplace tours that show students where and how people work
- Industry, community, and cultural tours connected to classroom topics
- Exploration experiences that support observation, inquiry, and discussion
- Pre‑ or post‑learning activities paired with lessons, readings, or live expert sessions
Virtual experiences help learning feel visual, tangible, and memorable.
Student Learning and Engagement
Through virtual exploration, students:
- Visit places they may not otherwise be able to access
- Explore cultures, perspectives, and communities from around the world
- Ask higher order thinking questions and engage more deeply in learning
- Develop curiosity about pathways, places, and possibilities
In The Classroom
Teachers use Virtual Tours & Virtual Reality to:
- Make learning more concrete and engaging
- Support experiential and inquiry‑based learning
- Introduce new topics or deepen existing ones
- Build background knowledge and shared context
- Create common experiences that spark conversation
Sample Tours
Blacktip (Animals)
Blacktip Reef is a breathtaking, award-winning exhibit full of color, light and movement located in the heart of National Aquarium. This coral-filled livestream exhibit, replicating Indo-Pacific reefs, is active with life that guests can experience from many vantage points, including a new floor-to-ceiling pop-out viewing window that allows guests to virtually come face to face with the animals.
The Australian Museum’s Unsettled Exhibition – Australia (Arts & Culture)
Unsettled uncovers the untold histories behind Australia’s foundation story. First Nations voices reveal the hidden stories of devastation, survival and the fight for recognition. These first-hand accounts are presented through long hidden historical documents, large-scale artworks, immersive experiences and never-before-seen objects from the Australian Museum collections and beyond. CW: massacres and genocide
Farm Food 360 (How Things Are Made, Occupations)
Immerse yourself in Canadian farm and food tours! Learn about apples, berries, greenhouse vegetables, potatoes, beans, mushrooms, dairy cows, veal, beef, pig, turkey, chicken, sheep, mink, milk and cheese, boiler breeders and hatcheries, eggs, grain, oats and more!
Solar System Tour (Space)
Solar System Scope is an incredibly accurate solar system tour, allowing you to explore the solar system, the night sky and outer space in real-time. All of the objects on the tour are accurately positioned based on where they are right this very second, and the tour contains interesting facts and information about the many objects in space.
The Royal Canadian Mint Museum (How Things Are Made, Museums)
Take a virtual tour inside the Royal Canadian Mint and learn about how money is made including manufacturing coins, collector coins, gold and silver bullion, medals, medallions, and tokens.
Virtual Biome Tours | Ask A Biologist (STEM)
Travel through time between seasons, learn about a few venomous creatures in the desert, or explore grasslands, savannas, tropical rainforests, temperate forests, and tundras. Shrink down to take a tour inside a beehive, or watch hummingbirds feed. You can even take a virtual tour through a laboratory to learn how teams of scientists hunt for viruses. It’s time to start exploring!
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- 1800+ virtual tours and virtual reality experiences
- Explore 14 different categories of unique content in all K-12 curriculum subject areas
- Tour titles and descriptions available in any language
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Virtual Tours & Virtual Reality help learners explore the world—one experience at a time.
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Digital Human Library services can be used on their own or combined in ways that support connected learning over time. Many educators bring experiences together to build on student curiosity and inquiry, connect ideas, and deepen understanding. Working across services supports planning that brings context, experience, and human connection together in purposeful ways.
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