Virtual field trips offer a new way for teachers and students to visit historical sites and museums. Most notably, virtual field trips provide access to places that normally would be impossible for classrooms to visit, and this, in turn, provides a plethora of learning possibilities for the classroom. Why should teachers consider creating a virtual field trip? Virtual field trips are an inexpensive way to integrate hands-on technology into the curricula while maintaining high student interest in the unit being studied. Virtual field trips offer a student-centered approach to instruction, and they diversify the teaching methods of content area instruction. Also, virtual instruction allows students to view people and places in a visually stimulating environment, which cannot be done through mere textbook reading. This article provides tips and recommendations for teachers on how to make a virtual field trip a success. It concludes with a list of resources for developing a virtual field trip such as Web sites; and virtual field trip examples.