Virtual Resources &
Field Trips

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Storyline Online, videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books to help inspire a love of reading in children. Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day.

Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi, called mycorrhizae. This video explores the vast root system and intricate communication of trees. Time: 4:33 minutes.

A video children’s book classic The Tortoise and the Hare. A speedy hare is sure she can beat any animal in the forest in a race, so she underestimates the challenge of racing a tortoise. Can read-a-long for new visitors. Time: 1:49 minutes.

This charming fantasy adventure podcast will have listeners of all ages glued to the speakers until the very end. Two young princes seek to save their kingdoms and in the process face villany, dragons, romance, and a magical forest full of danger.

In the internationally acclaimed The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a tiny caterpillar eats and eats…and eats his way through the week. Taken from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories collection animated film. Based on Eric Carle’s picture book.

Take in woodlands, wetlands, meadows, and the lake shoreline at AAM accredited Fairbanks Park at Newfields—one of the largest art parks in the country. View birds of prey via webcam and other virtual resources.

This video is about the Wampanoag, a Native American tribe, from the northeastern United States. They were there when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620 and they are still there today. Learn about their lives long ago by meeting two modern-day Wampanoag girls. Time: 7:26 minutes.

Tomato farming is not what you think it is! On this video, meet the farmers behind your pasta sauce, who grow and harvest plum-style, processing tomatoes. Time: 11:02 minutes.

The video takes you on a virtual field trip to the Jelly Belly factory. Learn how Jelly Belly beans are made and the history of the Jelly Belly Company. Time: (6:19 mins.)

At the 10 Acre Woods Farm,  join the farmer on a walk around the farm and see and learn about the farm animals and where they live. Time: 14:24 min.

Tumble is a science podcast for kids as they tell stories about science discoveries, with the help of scientists!  Hosted by Lindsay Patterson (science journalist) & Marshall Escamilla (teacher).

VINS is a 47-acre campus featuring a nature center, raptor enclosures, exhibits, interpretive nature trails, and more. See the institute’s virtual, at-home educational resources.