Field Trip Earth focuses on the activities of wildlife conservation researchers at work around the world. The FTE website is organized around several interactive “field trips”—assaying carnivore populations in Sri Lanka, satellite-tracking elephants in Cameroon, and reintroducing red wolves in North Carolina are among the projects available.

Students and teachers in classrooms can interact with those researchers, and with each other, via online discussion forums and other web-based tools. Perhaps most importantly, classrooms have ready access to the living record of each researcher's work. Each field trip offers a wide array of field journals, photographs, video, datasets, maps, and narrative stories. These resources can in turn be integrated into the site's model teaching activities, which support learning not only in the natural sciences but in language arts, social science, mathematics, and other disciplines.

Field Trip Earth houses wildlife-related resources contributed by some 45 conservationists working in North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. And, since the site became publicly accessible in February 2003, it has been visited by users from some 100 countries world-wide. Finally, more than 200 K-12 educators have attended Field Trip Earth training workshops, where they learned to implement the site in their classrooms and, in some cases, to develop instructional materials for use on the site.

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