Virtual Resources &
Field Trips

 Multi-cultural  – folktales – literature – ghosts – history – holidays.  With over 400 stories and 40 years experience, Alan Irvine designs programs to fit any needs. Engaging and fun. In-person: PA, WV.

Cincinnati’s home for art, Taft offers free docent-led tours to school groups, family programs, and more, as well as a video highlighting items in the collection.

Founded in 1812, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is a leading natural history museum dedicated to advancing research, education, and public engagement in biodiversity and environmental science.

This educational video shows how plants defend themselves. Plants are constantly under attack. They face threats ranging from microscopic fungi to small herbivores like caterpillars, up to large herbivores like elephants. Time: 6:12 minutes.

A video on the classic Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. Come and find out how a cat in a hat turns a “cold, cold, wet day” into “lots of good fun that is funny”! But who will clean up? Time: 12:10 minutes.

The Character Tree teaches your students and scouts about positive character traits while also teaching them about prominent figures past and present. Episode of The Character Tree includes videos, printable resources and activities.

This animated video of the most noted cases in American history, tells the story of Dred Scott who sought freedom for himself and his slave family, contending that they gained that right when they lived temporarily in Illinois, a free state.

Take a virtual field trip to the amazing Galapagos Islands that consists of 19 islands and the surrounding marine reserve that is called a unique ‘living museum and showcase of evolution’.

This animated video on Marie Skłodowska Curie’s revolutionary research that laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. Time: 5:03 mins.

This animated video of Harriet Tubman who escaped to freedom in the North in 1849 to become the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. Tubman risked her life to lead hundreds of family members and other slaves to freedom. Time: 28:52 minutes.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens offers a programs in literature, art, and science. In-Person and Virtual tours of its library, museum and gardens are available.

As The LEGO Group celebrates its 80th Birthday, this video takes a look back at its history with this short animated film. Time: 17:08 mins.