Bring your class into the Amazon

Amazonas, Brazil

The Amazon is the ecosystems lesson every science curriculum builds toward, and Street View actually goes there: Google carried trekker cameras up the rivers and into the forest of the Brazilian Amazon, so your class can stand beneath the canopy in the middle of the largest rainforest on Earth. Layered vegetation crowds every view — a living illustration of the forest-floor-to-canopy structure your students have seen in diagrams.

Walking it as a class changes what students notice. Lead them along the river, where the water and forest meet, and let the cursors fly: someone spots a dugout canoe, someone asks why the trees grow straight up instead of out, someone notices there's almost no light at ground level. Those observations are your lesson — biodiversity, competition for sunlight, and the communities who live along the river, all raised by the students themselves.

It works for a biology unit on ecosystems, a geography lesson on South America, or a discussion about deforestation and climate. The trip is free, students need no accounts, and your join code keeps it class-only. The rainforest is a long way from your classroom — but it's one link away.

No account, no download — pick a field trip name, send the link, and you're walking together in seconds.