Virtual Resources &
Field Trips

SLSO’s educational concerts will show students their musical potential through the excitement of a live orchestra performance! See the orchestra’s virtual resources to learn from anywhere.

Stories Podcast is a a free children’s story podcast where children develop great listening skills and keeps your children entertained with enriching stories. Also good for teachers to incorporate in their daily lesson plans.

Story Pirates with a renowned group of top comedians, musicians, authors, takes original stories from real kids and turns them into wild, imaginative audio adventures. Kids of all ages are encouraged to submit their very own original stories.

 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.