This paper describes the developmen t and evaluation of three (3) firs t-person travel interfaces for immersive environments. The three interfaces presen ted in the paper have been developed for the SMILE™ project ( Science and Math in an Immersive Learning Environment), an immersive learning game that employs a fantasy 3D virtual world to e ngage deaf and hearing children in math and science- based educational tasks. Two interfaces are hand-based, while the third one allows for hands-free motion control. The evaluation aims to: (1) determine which interface is the most effective for the hearing users of SMILE™ in terms of accuracy, speed, appeal, and ease of learning, and (2) identify any gender differences in using the three travel methods. To accomplish this objective we have designed an experiment which compares the three techniques for moving directly to a target object; we varied the distance of the object from the user’s starting positi on and the complexity of the path (number of turns) to reach the destination. Ten (10) hearing children ages 6–11 participated in the study; results show that although all travel techniques are easy to comprehend a nd use, the wand is the most effective interface. To our knowledge, this is the first paper that reports a study of i mmersive travel techniques with children. In a future publication we will report th e results of the same e xperiment with non-hearing children.