Free Amazon Virtual Field Trips for Your Class!


There’s no bus ride required to take your students on awesome field trips—we bring the tours to you! These interactive virtual field trips give your students insight into the careers of the future by hearing from real-life professionals about innovative technology. Your class will love the enthusiastic hosts, engaging videos, and kid-friendly topics.

Hosted on Kahoot!, these free Amazon virtual field trips pause between videos for students to answer trivia questions along the way and spark friendly competition. Plus, each tour comes with a Teacher Toolkit that includes a facilitation guide with student worksheets, certificates, and extension-learning opportunities. Tours are aligned with NGSS, CSTA, and ISTE standards, so they can tie right into your curriculum!

Plus, sign up to be notified when brand-new virtual field trips are released and you’ll be entered to win a $250 Amazon gift card! 😍 Sign up here.

Learn more about the virtual field trips you can start exploring now:

1. Discover how music comes to life.

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How do songs get from a recording studio to your favorite music app? There’s science behind it all, including software, sound engineering, streaming, machine learning, and so much more. Dive into the Amazon Music: Careers Behind the Beats Tour to discover how computer science and amazing professionals come together to make music possible.

  • Key learnings: how songs are recorded, music streaming and licensing, engineers and professionals who make music come to life
  • Grade levels: Grades 4 and up
  • Length: 30 minutes
  • Take the tour: Amazon Music: Careers Behind the Beats

2. How can internships help your career?

Amazon internship career tour
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An internship can help kick-start your career! Check out this tour to hear from real Amazon interns about their internship experiences while getting tips and tricks along the way. The Scholarships & Internships: Pathways to Your Career tour helps students learn the value of gaining experience before graduation while networking and building important skills for life.

3. Explore cutting–edge technology transforming healthcare.

Amazon pharmacy healthcare tour virtual field trip
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While pharmacies have been around for thousands of years, modern innovations have helped people get their medication faster and more easily. On this tour, students discover how engineers and pharmacists work together with robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to help customers get the medications they need. Along the way, explore careers that intersect passions for healthcare and helping others, like pharmacist, pharmacy technician, process engineer, and applied scientist. It’s a unique opportunity to see how technology shapes healthcare while discovering exciting career paths in the industry.

  • Key learnings: human-computer interaction, prescription automation, artificial intelligence, quality control
  • Grade levels: Grades 4 and up
  • Length: 40 minutes
  • Take the tour: Innovations in Healthcare: Amazon Pharmacy

4. What is “the cloud” anyway?

Amazon virtual field trips data center tour
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How did we get from renting movies on VCR video or DVD to instantaneous streaming across multiple devices? Where is “the cloud”? In the AWS Data Center Tour 1: Uncovering Cloud Computing, learn the basics of computers and streaming using the cloud. Plus, tour an AWS data center to find out how they store movies, music, pictures, and so much more.

5. Learn where all of our data is stored and kept secure.

Amazon data center virtual field trip
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Discover the infrastructure that keeps your information protected while diving into data careers of the future during the AWS Data Center Tour 2: Keeping Data Safe and Sustainable. Phone out of storage space? The cloud is a secure place to upload your photos for safekeeping. Learn how data centers use cooling methods, backup systems, sensors, and more to keep your cloud data secure.

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6. How does Amazon deliver packages at lightning speed?

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Amazon/Fulfillment Center Tour via amazonfutureengineer.com

Take this behind-the-scenes Robotics Fulfillment Center Tour to see how computer science, engineering, and real people work together to make the magic of Amazon deliveries happen. During this interactive virtual field trip, students meet Amazon engineers who explain concepts like algorithms and machine learning.

  • Key learnings: computer science, robotics, and machine learning as well as hardware and software
  • Grade levels: Grades K-5 version + Grades 6-and-up version
  • Length: 45 minutes for grades K-5, 1 hour for grades 6 and up
  • Take the tour: Robotics Fulfillment Center Tour

Check out a preview of the robotics tour:

7. Discover innovative experiments taking place in space.

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Take a peek at the experimental technology that flew aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Callisto: Space Innovation Tour. Learn about the Artemis I mission and discover how special space technology experiments could change future space travel forever. Experiments on board include testing how a modern-day tablet can run flight software, making high-quality video communication possible in space, and more.

  • Key learnings: how a spacecraft gets to the moon, deep-space communication, AI voice technology, space-engineering career paths
  • Grade levels: Grades 4 and up
  • Length: 50 minutes
  • Take the tour: Callisto: Space Innovation Tour

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Don’t forget to enter for your chance to win a $250 Amazon gift card!

These Amazon virtual field trips help students discover careers of the future while teaching them about modern-day technology. Check out all of the free tours here and sign your class up today!

Explore the cloud, learn about space technology, or find out how packages get delivered so quickly with free Amazon virtual field trips!

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