Museums, historical sites, art galleries, and zoos offer excellent opportunities to learn outside the classroom. Ideal for kinesthetic learners, these types of field trips allow for plenty of movement while engaging all the senses. If you’re unable to visit these amazing sites in person, bring the museums, history, and art to you! Click on the link below for a variety of virtual tours.
Discovery Education Field Trips
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/community/virtual-field-trips/
Hands-on experiments, online educational activities, and games provide additional opportunities to learn in an unstructured environment. Here are a few ideas from the Smithsonian, National Geographic, NASA, NOAA, and more.
Smithsonian- Fun for Kids & Teenagers
https://www.si.edu/kids
National Geographic
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
NOAA
https://www.noaa.gov/education
San Diego Zoo
https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/
Hour of Code Activities
https://code.org/learn
Wonder of the Day
https://wonderopolis.org/
Brainbashers
https://www.brainbashers.com/
Feeling creative? Set out the art supplies, open to a blank page in your journal, or clear a space in the living room for those art lessons, writing reflections, and dance moves.
Art Lessons
https://www.youtube.com/studiojjk
100 Sketchbook Prompts
https://theartofeducation.edu/2015/11/10/100-sketchbook-prompts-your-students-will-love/
Creative Writing Now
https://www.creative-writing-now.com/