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Virtual trips

Virtual field trips enable school students to learn about our transport system by actively participating in an online learning experience.

The virtual trips are run by professional educators in CORE Education’s LEARNZ team. All New Zealand schools have free access.

Each field trip includes videos, student reading resources and interactive activities. 

Digital innovation: Transforming rail safety

Term 3 2022: this virtual field trip shows how people running our rail network use virtual reality and other tech to enhance safety.

TranzAlpine: a STEM-learning journey with a view

Term 3 2021. Virtual travel on the TranzAlpine train journey with LEARNZ, from Ōtautahi Christchurch to Māwhera Greymouth. Learn about engineering and rail safety.

Getting around: your options for a sustainable future

Term 4 2020 featured a virtual field trip all about sustainable and safe transport choices.

Rail Safety 2020 virtual field trip

Term 3 saw LEARNZ teacher Andrew Penny lead a virtual field trip to Auckland for students to explore safety and sustainability with New Zealand’s rail network.

Rail safety 2019 – more sustainable journeys in Aotearoa New Zealand

Take a virtual ride in New Zealand's trains, meet professionals working in our expanding rail industry and investigate rail safety.

Share the road — design thinking and a safer transport system for everyone

2018: virtual field trip about the safe system approach to designing New Zealand’s transport systems.

Waterview Connection

Alice the gigantic tunnel boring machine dug twin 2.4 km motorway tunnels beneath Auckland’s suburbs. Video highlights from four virtual field trips.

Waikato expressway

Articles and videos aimed at Year 5 to 10 students about the people working on the Cambridge section of the Waikato Expressway. This is different to the virtual field trips and produced by a writer especially for the Education Portal. 

Smart Motorways

Virtual field trips to see progress on New Zealand's first smart motorway, designed to reduce congestion.

Pukeahu National War Memorial Park

The LEARNZ team ran four virtual field trips for school students to watch the development of Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.
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