Staying Home? Check out these Virtual Field Trips

While so many kids are home as a result of the covid-19 outbreak, lots of people are pulling together resources and sharing information to help us keep our kids entertained and learning at home.

One fun thing to do while kids are home is to do a virtual field trip daily. These might tie into other activities of the day or just be something fun to do in downtime.

Google Earth has virtual tours of 33 national parks you can look through. The girl and I went to Acadia National Park in Maine (where husband and I went on our honeymoon) yesterday.

Google also has a collection of the virtual collections of thousands of art museums from around the world. Visit the National Portrait Gallery in DC, the Munch Museum in Oslo, the British Museum and many, many more.

This Google Doc from Mrs. Fahrney has a nice collection of field trips including the San Diego Zoo and Boston’s Children’s Museum.

Do you know of more fun field trips or virtual tours out there? I’d love to add to this list.

[Photo via Totally the Bomb.]

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Earth Day Activities for Kids

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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