30 Cool Educational Webcams
posted by Mark on December 18th, 2009
Ah, webcams. Believe it or not, they aren’t just for lip synching, insane rants and stripteases that will come back to haunt you when your kids are old enough to surf YouTube. There are webcams stationed all around the world that can prove to be valuable educational resources, showing vivid, live-action details that bring textbooks alive and transport viewers to the other side of the globe — because it’s more powerful to see things than to read about them.
Landmarks
- Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)
- Grand Canal (Venice, Italy)
- Statue of Liberty (New York City, New York, USA)
Animal Life
- Boston Aquarium (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- Buenaventura Reserve (Piñas, Ecuador)
- Honeybee hive (Vcelovina honey wine, Slovakia)
- Kruger National Park (South Africa)
- National Zoo (Washington, DC, USA)
- Sea World Shamu Cam (San Diego, California, USA)
Museums
- AirVenture Museum (Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA)
- Dinosaur in Their Time exhibit, Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Foucault pendulum, University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)
- National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC, USA)
- National Corvette Museum (Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA)
Nature
- Arctic and Antarctic web cams (Alaska, USA; Norway; Antarctica)
- Hawaiian Volcanic Observatory (Hawaii, USA)
- Hurricane cam (travels to weather events)
- Niagara Falls (New York, USA; Ontario, Canada)
- Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA)
- Sedona, Arizona (Sedona, Arizona, USA)
Occupations
- Airport (Bornholm, Denmark)
- Dairy farming, Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Dentistry (New York City, New York, USA)
- Distillery (Frankfort, Kentucky, USA)
- Jewelry repair (Appleton, Wisconsin, USA)
- Structural engineering, University of Texas (Austin, Texas, USA)
- Seismology, Nevada Seismological Lab (Reno, Nevada, USA)
Space
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